'She is his appointee': Nancy Pelosi says she does not trust Dr. Birx because she is tied to Trump

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'She is his appointee': Nancy Pelosi says she does not trust Dr. Birx because she is tied to Trump
by Madison Dibble, Breaking News Reporter |
 | August 02, 2020 10:36 AM

The public health experts appointed by President Trump can't be trusted, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, reiterated her criticisms of Dr. Deborah Birx, the top official on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, on Sunday. Pelosi told ABC's This Week that Birx cannot be trusted to influence coronavirus policy because she was appointed by Trump.

"I think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee. So I don't have confidence there, no," Pelosi said.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/she-is-his-appointee-nancy-pelosi-says-she-does-not-trust-dr-birx-because-she-is-tied-to-trump

[PeteS in CA]

It's not "distrust", it's Trump Hate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Birx

Career
From 1980 to 1994, Birx served as an active duty reserve officer in the United States Army. From 1994 to 2008, Birx was active duty regular Army, achieving the rank of Colonel.[11]

From 1980 to 1989, Birx worked as a physician at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.[14] In 1981, Birx completed a one-year internship and did a two-year residency in internal medicine. From 1983 to 1986, she completed two fellowships in clinical immunology in the areas of allergies and diagnostics, where she worked in Anthony Fauci's lab.[4] From 1985 to 1989, Birx was the assistant chief of the Walter Reed Allergy/Immunology Service. Birx started her career as a clinician in immunology, eventually focusing on HIV/AIDS vaccine research.[4][14]

From 1986 to 1989, Birx worked at the National Institutes of Health as an investigator specializing in cellular immunology.[14]

Birx returned to Walter Reed, where from 1989 to 1995 she worked in the Department of Retroviral Research, first as an assistant chief and then as chief of the division. She was lab director in HIV-1 Vaccine Development for a year. Birx became the Director of the United States Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, a position she held for nine years, from 1996 to 2005. In that position, Birx led the HIV vaccine clinical trial of RV 144, the first supporting evidence of any vaccine being effective in lowering the risk of contracting HIV.[14]

CDC
From 2005 to 2014, Birx served as the director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA), part of the agency's Center for Global Health.[15]

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
In January 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Birx to be the Ambassador at Large and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program.[16][17]

Birx was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on April 2, 2014,[18] and was sworn in two days later.[19] She described her role as ambassador to help meet the HIV prevention and treatment targets set by Obama in 2015 to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.[20] Her role has focused on the areas of HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health issues around HIV/AIDS.[3] As part of her work with HIV prevention, Birx created a program called DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe), a public-private partnership focused on reducing infection rates in adolescent populations.[21]

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Dr. Birx responds to Nancy Pelosi trash-talking her
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08/02/dr-birx-responds-to-nancy-pelosi-trash-talking-her-954857

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Trump criticizes Birx over Pelosi, COVID-19 remarks: 'Pathetic'

“So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics,” Trump tweeted. “In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510246-trump-criticizes-birx-over-pelosi-covid-19-remarks-pathetic

[PeteS in CA]

Sit Down, Nancy: Pelosi Doubles Down While Birx Forcefully Pushes Back

https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/08/02/sit-nancy-pelosi-doubles-birx-forcefully-pushes-back/

... A Sunday morning political show gave Dr. Birx a chance to respond to Speaker Pelosi’s snide remarks about her as she was interviewed on CNN. She was asked about Pelosi’s criticism of her during a private meeting with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen on Friday night. Birx delivered an unequivocal response.

... it seems that her vitriol toward Birx came from a New York Times article in July. In that critical piece against Dr. Birx and her performance during the coronavirus pandemic, Birx was described as “Pollyannish” and avoids delivering bad news to President Trump. This accusation revolved around the fact that Birx thought at the time that the coronavirus spread in the U.S. would resemble that of as in Italy. She predicted that the virus would rise dramatically but then peak and begin to decline. No one from the NYT bothered to interview Dr. Birx before publishing the hit piece, by the way. ... her prediction was proven to have been overly optimistic.
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Sure, her remarks are mostly a slam against Trump because she can’t talk about anything without bringing in her contempt for him, and Republicans in general, back into focus. Nonetheless, she was calling Dr. Birx a liar. Birx was asked for her response by CNN’s Dana Bash. Birx began by politely acknowledging her respect for Pelosi’s very long political career and then opened fire.

“I have tremendous respect for the speaker, and I have tremendous respect for her long dedication to the American people,” Birx said, adding, though, that she could have “brought forth the data” to back up her analysis had the Times spoken with her.

“I have never been called pollyannish, or nonscientific, or non-data driven,” Birx said. “And I will stake my 40-year career on those fundamental principles of utilizing data to really implement better programs to save more lives.”

Nancy Pelosi is a professional politician. Dr. Birx is a professional Immunologist. As the late Lee Rodgers used to say, there is only one proper way to look at politicians, down.

[LegalAmerican]

PENCE..is in charge of covid issues.  He is who 'hired' Brix and Fauci. HE IS IN CHARGE.  POTUS is just over seeing....

[dancer]

It's not "distrust", it's Trump Hate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Birx

Inconvenient facts.  She also worked for Democrats.