President Trump objected on Sunday to a 60 Minutes interview with the ousted director of a federal vaccine agency while complaining that whistleblowers are “causing great injustice and harm” to the country.
CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell interviewed Rick Bright, who testified before the House last week that the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was slow. The former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority filed a whistleblower complaint that said he was demoted last month after raising concerns about a drug touted by Trump as a possible cure for the virus.
“We don’t yet have a national strategy to respond fully to this pandemic,” Bright said in the interview. “The best scientists that we have in our government, who are working really hard to try to figure this out aren’t getting that clear, cohesive leadership, strategic plan message yet. Until they get that, it’s still going to be chaotic.”
“We don’t yet have a national strategy to respond fully to this pandemic,” says government scientist Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint charging the government’s response to coronavirus has been slow and chaotic. https://t.co/U1L3I1AiXS pic.twitter.com/AdEI5ZUQwp
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 17, 2020
After apparently watching the interview, Trump lashed out at O’Donnell, suggesting that a CBS executive fire her, called Bright “a creep,” and said, “This whole Whistleblower racket needs to be looked at very closely.”
.@60Minutes & third place anchor, @NorahODonnell, are doing everything in their power to demean our Country, much to the benefit of the Radical Left Democrats. Tonight they put on yet another Fake “Whistleblower”, a disgruntled employee who supports Dems, fabricates stories, &…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2020
….This whole Whistleblower racket needs to be looked at very closely, it is causing great injustice & harm. I hope you are listening @SenSusanCollins I also hope that Shari Redstone will take a look at her poorly performing gang. She knows how to make things right!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2020
