Laura Ingraham tries to undermine the work of the CDC and blame them for Trump’s policies
“The CDC can’t even accurately count flu deaths in a given year—which they admitted to a couple of weeks ago on this show... in texts back and forth with us. So... why are we trusting them to count COVID deaths? This isn’t some philosophical concern either. Bad data, as we’ve shown you, leads sometimes to bad policies. Which we are now seeing take hold across the United States, especially in blue states.”
“It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle”
Dr. Birx goes to painstaking lengths to avoid criticizing Trump's comments about disinfectant injections.
Dr. Birx defends Donald Trump’s comments on Fox News
“When he gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue and so that’s what dialogue he was having. I think he just saw the information at the time immediately.. and he was still digesting that information.”
Trump felt it necessary to interject with an “I want to come way under the models. The professionals did the models. I was never involved in a model. But—at least this kind of a model” pun.