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| THE "STABLE GENIUS"... BACK AT IT! |
STEP 1: You may recall that a month or so ago our "Pearless Leader" - Psychotic President Trump - fearful that the rise of Covid-19 was eroding his chances to be re-elected this November. With the impact on health, jobs, businesses, and the collapse of the American economy impedes his campaign and his poll numbers go off the cliff, he places the blame on the CASE-COUNT as the Corona 19 virus invasion grows by leaps and bounds. Given the demand in the CDC and the health community for TESTING he announces at a Trump re-elect rally that testing is "bad" because the case numbers grow! DUH! Trump announces that he wants the testing "to slow." His goal? Make sure the case counts do not grow.... it makes him "look bad." Given the outrage that results and the desperate need for testing to track the viral spread, Trump backs off his public statements and denies that he ordered the "slowing" of the test "spread." "It was a joke," he says....
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| SNAKE OIL SALESMAN TRUMP - At the switch again! |
STEP 2: Two weeks ago, Trump and the Secretary of Health, Alex Azar order that the US Hospitals report directly to the Health and Human Services Office in DC and not send their virus infection data to the CDC as they have done for 15 years. After all, according to Trump, the CDC does not have an efficient method of data collection and could make "mistakes" driven by errors. Hospitals across the nation shut out Covid-19 reports to the CDC as ordered and re-directed the data - especially the Covid-19 case-counts and mortality - to HHS in DC.
STEP 3: Azar issues a $10.2 million contract for "professional services" in data collection to an outfit in Pittsburgh, TeleTracking Technologies. First listed as a "sole-source" contract, HHS later says that there were 6 "bids" received... but refuses to list the companies that submitted proposals. Due to the shift in gears from the CDC to TeleTracking, Senators ask for updated data.
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| MAGA AGAIN: Who need to KNOW ANYTHING!!! |
As reported in the NY Times on August 14th, The HHS official in charge of the new database, Chief Information Officer, Jose' Arrieta, resigns after just 16 months on the job as a Trump Administration appointment. On that same day, August 14th, a letter dated August 3rd was received by the Senators Murray and Shumer from the company attorney, A. Scott Bolden. The company refuses to answer any questions regarding the matter or the Covid-19 data or about its $10.2 million contract... for one simple reason. The contract executed with HHS contains a "non-disclosure agreement" clause that prevents the firm from sharing any information. By the way, TeleTracking, awardee of the $10.2 million PUBLIC CONTRACT PAID BY TAX DOLLARS, is headed by majority stockholder, Chairman, and CEO Michael Zamagia, a Pittsburgh real estate developer...
So, from a Trump viewpoint - IT IS AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE! Defer, deny, and manipulate data that hurts you by stopping "deep state leaks" of damaging data; ship the data elsewhere; and, give it to a friend with a "non-disclosure" contract! Like the "non-disclosure" requirements that Trump inserted in all of his personal and corporate contracts, including the sexual assault settlements, he has now utilized the very same "SHUT-UP AND BE STILL" strategy to minimize damaging information becoming public and being associated with him.
To quote Trump, "I DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL." On the other hand, from January into May and more, Trump described the Covid-19 concern as "fake news" and yet another "witch hunt." From February 6th - the first US Covid-19 death in California - to date, we have lost some 200,000 American lives. More deaths - nearly 4 times the loss of life - in just 6 months than in 10 years in Viet Nam.
IT IS TIME FOR TRUMP TO PAY THE PRICE!
Tick-tock.... November 3, 2020..... VOTE!
Bobby J
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