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On the same date, Trump-world’s pandemic messaging got even uglier when a senior HHS spokesman publicly attacked CDC scientists and accused them of sedition. That was not just undisciplined; it was a self-inflicted wound that made the administration look hostile to its own experts at the exact moment the country needed credibility, not internal warfare.
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On the same date, Trump-world’s pandemic messaging got even uglier when a senior HHS spokesman publicly attacked CDC scientists and accused them of sedition. That was not just undisciplined; it was a self-inflicted wound that made the administration look hostile to its own experts at the exact moment the country needed credibility, not internal warfare.
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On the same date, Trump-world’s pandemic messaging got even uglier when a senior HHS spokesman publicly attacked CDC scientists and accused them of sedition. That was not just undisciplined; it was a self-inflicted wound that made the administration look hostile to its own experts at the exact moment the country needed credibility, not internal warfare.
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