As US President, Donald Trump has long downplayed the danger posed by the corona virus. The facts contradict him. However, some of his employees are said to have tried to pressure the health authority CDC to improve reporting on the pandemic.
According to an investigation report, under the administration of former US President Donald Trump, health care officials were forced to withhold or gloss over precise information about the course of the corona pandemic. The report published on Monday by a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives on the Corona crisis comes to the conclusion, based on testimonies, that this was intended to support the then President's downplaying of the pandemic.
Senior officials at the CDC health agency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported that they were being harassed by Trump aides and that they were trying to rewrite their reports on the spread of the corona virus. "Unprecedented steps" have been taken to influence the publication process and refute the CDC's scientific reports, the report said.
For the 91-page report, investigators interviewed current and former CDC officials and senior management officials. The report describes how Trump-appointed HHS officials attempted to take over the CDC's weekly scientific journal and revise articles they believed could harm Trump. A CDC official is quoted as saying a Trump ally engaged in "harassing behavior" that made CDC officials "feel threatened."
The investigation showed that the Trump administration "has engaged in an unprecedented campaign of political interference in the federal government's pandemic response, which has undermined public health to further the former President's policy goals," committee chairman Jim Clyburn said. Trump's Republican Party dismissed the report as biased. She announced that she would submit her own report if she won the midterm elections in November.
