Dr. Bright: Trump pressured me to approve unproven, unsafe chloroquine drugs
By Curt Anderson May 5, 2020 4:00 pm Category: Politics (5.0 from 2 votes)
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Ousted vaccine official alleges he was demoted for prioritizing "science and safety"
If we were not already inured to this sort of unethical and potentially criminal behavior from our current American president, we would be shocked. This would be a story that would rock any past White House.
"Political Connections and Cronyism": In Blistering Whistleblower Complaint, Rick Bright Blasts Team Trump's Pandemic Response
"The past few years, however, have been beyond challenging. Time after time, I was pressured to ignore or dismiss expert and scientific recommendations, and instead to award lucrative contracts based on political connections. In other words, I was pressured to let politics and cronyism drive decisions over the opinions of the best scientists we have in government. And ultimately, I was removed from my position because of my continued insistence that the government invest funds allocated by Congress, hard earned tax payer dollars, to address the COVID 19, and invest them into safe and scientifically vetted solutions instead of funding projects that were promoted by cronies, or politically connected companies.
Most recently, I witnessed government leadership rushing blindly into a potentially dangerous situation by bringing in a non-FDA approved chloroquine from Pakistan and India, from facilities that had never been approved by the FDA. Their eagerness to push blindly forward without sufficient data to put this drug into the hands of Americans, was alarming to me and my fellow scientists. I could not, in good conscience, ignore the scientific recommendations to limit access to those drugs under the direct care of a doctor and instead allow political ambition and timelines to override scientific judgment. And that was just one of the many improper things that I pushed back on with senior leadership within HHS." -- Dr. Rick Bright
Dr. Rick Bright's whistleblower complaint, released Tuesday, alleges that top officials in the Trump administration, including Jared Kushner, put friends and politics above the country's health.
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Ousted vaccine official alleges he was demoted for prioritizing "science and safety"
