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Donald Trump's virus-whisperer: The tragic downfall of Dr. Deborah Birx
A Pence cult follower.
It turns out that many of the most important decisions that were made during that period weren't done by the official task force headed by Vice President Mike Pence, but by another shadowy group that met every weekday morning in White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' office. (Remember, Jared Kushner was also running his own task force on a secret, separate track.)
This one was single-mindedly dedicated to producing evidence to back up the White House decision to open up the economy, come what may. Dr. Birx was their validator, the only public health official among the group of political hands, and the Times describes her as "the chief evangelist in the West Wing for the idea that infections had peaked and the virus was fading quickly."
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