Everything Trump touches turns to shit. This article is an exceptional description of the damage that Trump's incompetence has done to the CDC. Once the "gold standard" of public health, now a demoralized and often ignored shell of its former self.
Once seen as an apolitical bulwark, the CDC endured meddling on multiple fronts by officials with little or no public health experience, from Trump’s daughter Ivanka to Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s immigration crackdown. A shifting and mysterious cast of political aides and private contractors — what one scientist described as young protégés of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “wearing blue suits with red ties and beards” — crowded into important meetings about key policy decisions.
The Trump administration is “appropriating a public enterprise and making it into an agent of propaganda for a political regime,” one CDC scientist said in an interview as events unfolded. “It’s mind-boggling in the totality of ambition to so deeply undermine what’s so vitally important to the public.”
Trump is responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Americans and the devastation of the US economy. The near destruction of a vitally important public agency is simply collateral damage caused by a man without a moral compass.
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