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Trump Admin's Great New Plan for Coronavirus

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Spend $300 million of our money...
...to support businesses hurt by the shutdowns? No.
...to support people unemployed due to the shutdowns? No.
...to buy PPE for hospitals and care givers? No.
...to buy pre-election advertisements that brag about how great Trump's response to the virus has been. Really.


HHS ad blitz sputters as celebrities back away

The $300 million, taxpayer-funded campaign to tout the administration’s response to Covid-19 falls behind schedule amid widespread criticism.​
They made a list of more than 30 celebrities including Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift and Billy Joel to appear in their ad campaign to "inspire hope" about coronavirus, but they ended up with only Dennis Quaid, CeCe Winans and Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer.​
The health department’s $300 million-plus, taxpayer-funded vehicle to boost confidence in President Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic is sputtering. Celebrities are refusing to participate, and staff are arraying against it. Some complain of the unstated aim of helping Trump’s re-election. Others point to an ill-prepared video team and a 22-year-old political appointee who has repeatedly asserted control despite having no public health expertise, according to six people with close knowledge of the campaign and documents related to its operations.​
The public awareness campaign, which HHS is seeking to start airing before Election Day on Nov. 3, was largely conceived and organized by Michael Caputo, the health department's top spokesperson who took medical leave last week and announced on Thursday that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Caputo, who has no medical or scientific background, claimed in a Facebook video on Sept. 13 that the campaign was "demanded of me by the president of the United States. Personally."​
...10 current and former health officials told POLITICO that they have concerns about the campaign's scope, goals and even how it has been funded — by pulling money out of health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control that are in the midst of fighting the pandemic, rather than working with lawmakers to set up a brand-new advertising effort with congressional oversight, or drawing on substantial internal resources and expertise in running health-related public service campaigns.​
 
Yes, I saw that. Quite disgusting, but not unexpected.

From the very beginning, Trump has seen the pandemic as a public relations problem, not a public health problem. That’s why we are the 206th worst out of 215 countries as measured by deaths per million population.


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Here’s another one where Trump is using government resources as a campaign tool. Swamp on steroids.

Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him:



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This is pretty much standard for the Trump regime.
 
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