Trump administration diverted $300 million in CDC funds to make advertisements on how to 'defeat des

[mfcorey1]

The Trump administration diverted over $300 million in funding for the CDC to a COVID-19 ad campaign devised by a political appointee.

The campaign "is expected to lean heavily on video interviews between administration officials and celebrities," Politico reported.
Michael Caputo, the Trump appointee who came up with the campaign, said on Facebook that it had been "demanded of me by the president of the United States. Personally."

The Trump administration is using over $300 million in funding diverted from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make advertisements to "defeat despair" over COVID-19, Politico revealed Friday

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-diverted-300-million-in-cdc-funds-to-make-advertisements-on-how-to-defeat-despair-about-the-covid-19-pandemic/ar-BB19r3Lu?li=BBorjTa&ocid=mailsignout

[Zoonart]

1. Holy shit...

300million... while hospitals are still grubbing for PPE.


PS: it only cost 200million to make the last Star Wars movie. Let that sink in. Where did all of this money go?

[uponit7771]

2. +1,

[Hstch05]

3. Oh we're going to defeat despair all right

by voting the homunculus out of office and into the waiting arms of the SDNY.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. Once you used the word "homunculus" I couldn't stop my brain from

conjuring Gluttony from FMA.

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[genxlib]

4. That isn't the math

It's a million to make it and then 290 million to saturate the airways with the "good news".

It is government funded propaganda

[malaise]

17. MSGreedia should rejso should social mediaect these ads and

but greed rules over lives

[Iliyah]

5. With outbreaks in 32 states and Florida opening up . .

amidst rising infections and deaths, it will be a tsunami.

Using taxpayers money for shithole's campaign is beyond sick and only proves that republicans don't care about human life.

[mucifer]

7. I am afraid covid fatigue is setting in and lots of people will welcome "good news" believing all

sorts of lies.

[Iliyah]

9. Not for the thousands of suffering families . ...

When infections, hospitalizations and death rising which will cause the economy to further collapse wherein the workers have no unemployment because it has been exhausted.

The republicans may have their cult fooled, but I'll give credit for the sane Americans.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. This is a huge deal and illegal

It sure why this isn’t a bigger story. Trump is just making the entire government an arm of his campaign.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

8. This is what I would expect as a next step in a poorly written reality show

where the real solution lies in getting rid of the lead actor and the ensemble that plays with him.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Sounds like embezzlement to me.

The Trump Administration is transferring agency funds (paid by tax dollars by all of us) for the purposes of the Trump Campaign (which I hear is $1 million in deficit). They may claim it's for the CDC for Covid to give it the appearance of public health. But in reality, my tax dollars would be indirectly pay for Trump's Re-Election.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. +1

[2naSalit]

14. +1

[chriscan64]

12. There is one reason why we can't connect the dots

between this and the Trump campaign: There is only one dot. The campaign is all there is.

[2naSalit]

15. +1

[Me.]

16. What Celebrities?

Scott Baio, the pillow man?

[LizBeth]

18. Dennis Quaid for one.

[Me.]

19. Do Most People Even KNow Who He Is Anymore

aside from being the guy in commercials?

[LizBeth]

20. All of a sudden, he has come back on the scene. Personally I liked him and am really disappointed.

I hope he is trashed hard firstly whatever the ads, lightening the effects of covid which I am sure the ads will do but using money illegally for campaigning. I hope this snowballs. I watched a new show he had out during quarantine, cutsey. Certainly not brilliant, but fun.

[ellie]

21. I was wondering

where they got the $300 million. Of course, they diverted it from somewhere else. Buch of goddamn criminals.