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turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 06:24 PM May 2020

Top medical journal: Trump made up a report to attack World Health Organization

Source: American Independent



By Dan Desai Martin -May 19, 2020 5:15 PM

According to the Lancet, the Trump administration fabricated a report in a letter threatening to defund the U.N. health agency.

On Tuesday, one of the world's top medical journals said that Donald Trump lied in recent letter to the World Health Organization, which threatened to permanently withhold funding from the agency.

The letter, sent Monday, stated that a review of the organization's response to the coronavirus crisis found that it "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal."

The letter also stated that the Trump administration would withdraw its support of the organization if it did not "commit to major substantial improvements in the next 30 days."

However, contrary to the claim in the letter, the Lancet did not publish anything about the new coronavirus in December 2019.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-who-letter-lies-the-lancet-world-health-organization-un-covid-19/



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In other words trump want to continue his ways of blackmailing organizations................
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Top medical journal: Trump made up a report to attack World Health Organization (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
Consequences to follow in 9,000,000,000, 8,999,999,999, 8,999,999,998... maxsolomon May 2020 #1
That default is in plain site I hope the american public see's what you are saying......... turbinetree May 2020 #2
Credit goes to the author at the link maxsolomon May 2020 #4
Yepper spot on.................... turbinetree May 2020 #5
He just wants the WHO to announce an investigation into Hunter Biden. "Do me a favor, though." PSPS May 2020 #3
Tweet with their statement here: muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #6
POTUS is a warmfeet May 2020 #7
Sure the W.H.O. really messed up. ... Botany May 2020 #8
he's a sick sick man LymphocyteLover May 2020 #9
Good lord is he disgusting Blue Owl May 2020 #10
He should have just cited the Paris Business Review... ck4829 May 2020 #11

maxsolomon

(33,232 posts)
1. Consequences to follow in 9,000,000,000, 8,999,999,999, 8,999,999,998...
Tue May 19, 2020, 06:31 PM
May 2020

"The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element, and by “flooding the zone with shit,” Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence.

Stated another way, the plan is to default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default. To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign. So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up (worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion. The press won’t be able to “expose” the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight. The facts will be known, and simultaneously they will be inconceivable."

-Jay Rosen

https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/

maxsolomon

(33,232 posts)
4. Credit goes to the author at the link
Tue May 19, 2020, 06:36 PM
May 2020

It is really insightful - helped me to see the media scheme behind the bullshit.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,262 posts)
6. Tweet with their statement here:
Tue May 19, 2020, 07:19 PM
May 2020



They point out the first 2 publications in The Lancet were on Jan 24 - one from a team all from mainland China, and one from Hong Kong and China.

Botany

(70,442 posts)
8. Sure the W.H.O. really messed up. ...
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:21 PM
May 2020

... by getting the virus and its sequenced genome from China in Nov. or Dec. of 2019 and
passing that information on to scientists in Germany who made a perfectly good kit to
detect C-19 and that kit has been used all over the world to help stop the spread of the
disease by testing and tracing? The same kit that Trump rejected so he and Kush-Turd could
peddle their own C-19 test kits and make lots of money.

BTW Trump and company were told of the virus and the real possibility of a global pandemic
in November of 2019*. And that is when Trump and Kush-Turd invested in their own C-19
test kits and hydroxycholorquine. Trump owing China a shit load of money might have very well
contributed to his late and ill prepared response to C-19 too.


* https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source said.


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