The CNN “autopsy” featuring all the pandemic doctors was difficult to watch. I know they were all between a rock and a hard place and that working with Trump and his henchmen was a nightmare. Nonetheless, with the stakes so high, you have to wonder if they couldn’t have found a better way than the path they chose.
Take, for instance, Deborah Birx explaining that she believes many of the deaths after the first 100,000 were preventable but also saying that she thought Trump did listen to the scientists when he reluctantly agreed to shut down the country a year ago.
Remember, this is how she discussed that on television at the time:
I think that one appearance did more to damage her credibility than anything else she said. It was an unnecessary fluff job, totally over the top and anyone who knew anything about Trump knew it was 100% Prime bullshit.
Here he was just two weeks later:
I wrote a whole column about that at the time. We knew he was lying. We knew it was going to end badly. And apparently, they all knew it too. But they were all paralyzed, compromised or complicit. And many people died.