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Friday, February 28th, 2020

Conservatives push coronavirus conspiracy theory alleging a “deep state” plot to “bring down” Trump

Author:     IGOR DERYSH
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     FEBRUARY 27, 2020 4:52PM (UTC)
 Link: Conservatives push coronavirus conspiracy theory alleging a “deep state” plot to “bring down” Trump
Stephan:   When you have an authoritarian government that doesn't tell the truth from the leader down, conspiracy theories abound and citizen trust in what the government says declines, further degrading democracy and supporting authoritarianism. And that is exactly what the Trumplican Party is doing. Your country is disappearing my fellow Americans and the response to that is pathetic.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, right, speaks at a news conference in Baltimore, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, to announce that seven Baltimore police officers who worked on a firearms crime task force are facing charges of stealing money, property and narcotics from people over two years. Standing alongside Rosenstein is Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis.
Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky/AP

Conservatives have spread a baseless coronavirus conspiracy theory alleging that a top official at the Centers for Disease Control could be part of a “deep state” plot to “bring down” President Donald Trump, because her brother is former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Trump was reportedly “furious” after Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, undercut his attempts to downplay the risk posed by the coronavirus by issuing a public warning that an outbreak in the U.S. now appears inevitable.

“She never should have said that,” a senior administration official told CNBC. “It’s bad.”

Messonnier is the sister of Rosenstein, who appointed former special counsel […]

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1 Comment

  1. LARRY BOLGAR on Friday, February 28, 2020 at 7:20 am

    Purges of Never Trumpers in government and now a person(Pence) who believes that smoking does not cause cancer filtering the virus reports we get from HHS and the CDC. How much more Fascist can we get?