Birx: Someone was giving Trump a ‘parallel set of data’ on coronavirus

Deborah BirxDeborah BirxSunday shows preview: All eyes on Biden administration to fight coronavirus Birx says she regularly considered leaving Pence hands over coronavirus task force report to Biden MORE, the former White House coronavirus coordinator, said on Sunday that her efforts to advise then-President TrumpDonald Trump NYT: Rep. Perry was instrumental in Trump’s alleged plan to oust the interim Arizona GOP censorious state Republicans McCain, Flake and Ducey Biden and the British Prime Minister discuss the NATO and multilateralism in a PLUS call on the pandemic were complicated by the people who presented him with “parallel data.”

“I saw the president presenting graphics that I never did. So I know that somebody, or somebody over there or somebody inside was creating a parallel set of data and charts that were shown to the president. I know what I sent and I know what was in his hands was different from that, “Birx told CBS” Face the Nation. ” “You can not do this.”

Asked by host Margaret Brennan who provided the former president with such data, Birx said she was not sure but said she suspected that at least some of the data had been provided by the former White House adviser. Scott AtlasScott AtlasOvernight Health Care: Trump administrator makes changes to speed up vaccinations | CDC to order negative tests for international travelers | More Lawmakers Test Positive After Capitol Seat Joe Biden Needs New Communications Strategy Hill’s Morning Report – Brought to you by Mastercard – Congress works to relieve COVID-19, omnibus deal MORE, who is not an infectious disease expert and has repeatedly fought with Birx and other experts over how best to contain the pandemic.

“I don’t know who else was on it, but I think when the record comes back and people see what I was writing daily that was sent to the White House leadership, they’ll see that – that I ‘was very specific about what I saw and what to do, ”she said.

Asked by Brennan whether the White House chief of staff or other officials were “saying ‘wait a sec, here’s our official coordinator listen to her and her only,” Birx said unaware if anyone had said that. to Trump but told me that.

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“Someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphs that were shown to the president.”

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Brennan then asked if Birx thought Trump was circumscribed by the political implications of the virus and his re-election campaign.

“I always wonder that, and, I mean, the worst time you can have a pandemic is in a presidential election year. I think the White House staff were very focused on this pandemic in March and April, ”she said. “I think once the country started to open up it was clear to me that they weren’t going to follow my really stuck criteria that I had worked hard on.