A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)Once a fixture at the administration's coronavirus briefings, Dr. Deborah Birx has confided to aides and friends that she has become so unhappy with what she sees as her diminished role as coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force that she is not certain how much longer she can serve in her position, sources familiar with her thinking tell CNN.

Birx has told people around her that she is "distressed" with the direction of the task force, describing the situation inside the nation's response to the coronavirus as nightmarish.

According to people familiar with her thinking, Birx views Dr. Scott Atlas, a recent addition to the task force, as an unhealthy influence on President Donald Trump's thinking when it comes to the virus.

"The President has found somebody who matches what he wants to believe," a source close to Birx said of her view of Atlas's relationship with Trump. "There is no doubt that she feels that her role has been diminished."


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/deborah-birx-white-house-task-force/index.html

[flamingdem]

1. Birx and Redfield are both evangelicals

They're in it for the (orange?) Lord and their bizarre religious ideology. Birx doesn't like being upstaged by Atlas. Boo hoo.

Dr Deborah Birx: voice of scientific reason or apologist for Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/09/dr-deborah-birx-coronavirus-trump

[BlueNProud]

23. I think you nailed it. Trump has found a new sycophant in Atlas

and The Scarf is jealous. Don't expect any courageous actions from Birx.

[jayfish]

2. Don't Wait. DO IT NOW...

and make a public spectacle of it. Not going to happen though as this is theater. It's an attempt to soften the hard gaze that history will use to examine her tenure.

[soothsayer]

3. Too little, too late for redemption prolly

Unless she sings like a canary

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Delphinus]

20. Amen!

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. So she's not thinking of leaving because of the royal fuck-up of the response.

But because her nose is out of joint because there's someone more powerful than she is on the "task force". We truly live in hell.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. It sounds like she's more upset with her role, but not so much in the response itself. NT

[PatSeg]

7. What is disturbing is

she seems more concerned with the fact that her role has been diminished, than she is about the effects of the coronavirus on Americans. I would be more impressed if she was expressing "distress" about all the lost lives and suffering because of this president's decisions. Of course, this is a third person's account of her feelings, so she might actually care about the sick and dying. She might want to start speaking out more like Dr. Fauci has.

[durablend]

8. But if you leave

No one will see your scarf-du-jour. TEH HORROR!!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

9. I'm with Pelosi........

“I don’t have confidence in anyone who stands there while the president says, ‘Swallow Lysol and it’s going to cure your virus,’” Pelosi told CNN about Birx,

Birx was/is more concerned about shopping for designer scarfs & her religious life than protecting us from the Virus, or standing up and doing what was right for the American People.....

If she truly had any devotion to her quasi-job, she would have stood up and walked off the stage when Trump started doing first grade science freelancing about a cure. THAT would have made a powerful video for Biden's campaign, played over and over ad nausea....
Trump's remarks were like take disinfectant internally?????????? Shove a light bulb up your who-who ??????????????

The Dems sadly have had no powerful person or people to organize and direct others or the party............

I regret having to say that, but it is reality......Biden is working at it, but it is a slow and late start........

Right now the Dems should be standing by, ready and organized for the nefarious "Republican October Surprise" the RepubliCONs are known for. pulling...

[stillcool]

10. they all seem to have massive ego's...

like there's something in the air around D.C.

[brewens]

11. January. n/t

[kairos12]

12. Dr. Scarf is already a boot-licking vile disgrace. Leave already.

[asiliveandbreathe]

13. Birx should answer one question on the way out the door..

What did you do to help the American people? Spill everything birx..let's hear it. Until then, may the visual of you just sitting there while the pig spewed bleach live on in your nightmares..

[keithbvadu2]

14. Can't she see that her role is that of Trump sycophant?

Can't she see that her role is that of Trump sycophant?

[Journeyman]

15. Then do something. NOW! If not for yourself then for my grandchildren . . .

[Tom Rinaldo]

16. If she cares at all about how the role she has played in this pandemic is viewed for all time

she needs to resign before the election and give her reasons why. If she does she can hope for some measure of forgiveness, if she doesn't she'll be forever damned. There is no middle ground left to cling to Deborah.

[BadGimp]

17. Her problem is she insists on Facts and Science and stuff all the time...

And Red Don, of course, insists on other stuff...

[Hela]

18. I think she blew it.

The moment Trump turned to her while extolling the virtues of disinfectant was the moment she should have stood, walked to the podium, and publicly renounced everything he had just said and resigned from the task force.

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. she's concerned, now?

[SunSeeker]

27. She is concerned about her "diminished role," not that Trump is lying to America.

[EarthFirst]

30. Correct.

Her ego is no longer being stroked daily...

Her opinion on the matter is no longer being highlighted; so she’s throwing a temper tantrum.

[niyad]

21. Debbie, dahhhhhhhling, you sold your soul ages ago. You have no relevance, no leverage, no

importance. Resign now, and spend a great deal o time begging forgiveness for violating your oath.

[CloudWatcher]

22. 200000 dead and she's just now upset?

Oh please, just go away. Cry me a river.

[Firestorm49]

24. Unhappy with a diminished role? Get used to it. You're a woman in a GOP administration. .

[MontanaMama]

25. She was never a player...

She was only there for show. Bummer for her that she burned her reputation to the ground by sucking up to the MF.

[BlueIdaho]

26. Amen.

She was never more than an ass kisser in a scarf. If and when she leaves, no one will notice.

[SunSeeker]

28. Birx's career is over. Everything Trump touches dies.

[Coventina]

29. Boo frickin' hoo

[Maxheader]

31. Scary shit..

Think stumpy will pull fed $$ from states that don't obey.?

New corona rules..take off them damn masks, an get to work...

I see a push by the admin towards herd immunity....