On Saturday, President Donald Trump unfoundedly accused the Federal Drug Administration’s “deep state” of making it difficult for pharmaceutical corporations to engage others in clinical trials as a planned tactic to stop a COVID-19 vaccine until the end of the election.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020
“Clearly, they hope to delay the reaction until November 3,” Trump wrote, as if the speed of vaccine testing were a specific attempt to save him from re-election or decrease his chances of winning a round.
While Trump began the tweet with a broad accusation against the so-called “deep state” that conspiracies have reported to be embedded in government agencies and that he actively opposes his re-election, Trump concluded the tweet by directly tagging the FDA commissioner’s account. , Dr. Stephen Hahn, who had been nominated for office last year.
House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called Trump’s tweet a “very damaging statement,” adding that “even for him, it goes beyond the limits.”
“The FDA has a duty to approve drugs, judging by their protection and effectiveness, not through a White House on the speed and politicization of the FDA,” Pelosi said at a rare news convention Saturday.
The tweet is a renewed effort by the president to attack scientists within his administration. Trump has consistently criticized Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an infectious disease expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for agreeing to the president’s prospects for resuming face-to-face learning and sports parties.
In another tweet saturday, Trump doubled his attack on the FDA by his ruling to withdraw emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, a remedy for covid-19, suggesting that “many doctors and scientists don’t agree with that!”
The president rejected the opinion of fitness experts in favor of sharing unfounded claims of unreliable resources that claim to align with science, but which have in fact contributed to the dissemination of false data on the new coronavirus. In one case last month, Trump retwed a viral video of a woman who belonged to an organization called “America’s Frontline Doctors” that falsely promoted hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for COVID-19. A closer look at the doctor’s credentials showed that she had a history of false statements, adding a statement that endometriosis is caused by sex with demons in dreams.