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Almost two weeks ago, the liberal media pounced on claims from a former HHS official who claimed, without evidence, that he was fired for not pushing hydroxychloroquine. Well, that official was back in the news Tuesday because he filed a whistleblower complaint, but this time Dr. Rick Bright added on new claims he didn’t tell the press about before now. CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News gobbled up the allegations despite the fact they made no sense given their previous reporting.
In spite of the fact that Bright’s initial allegations were proven bogus within hours by Politico’s Dan Diamond, CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell and anti-Trump White House correspondent Weijia Jiang glorified Bright, suggesting he was exposing something awful within the Trump administration (click “expand”):
NORAH O’DONNELL: And tonight, for the first time, we're getting an inside account of the scramble within the Trump administration as it tried to get a handle on the unfolding pandemic. Today, ousted vaccine expert Rick Bright filed a formal whistleblower complaint, alleging his warnings were ignored. CBS’s Weijia Jiang is traveling with the President in Phoenix. Weijia.
WEIJIA JIANG: Well Norah, Rick Bright’s complaint lays out in detail just how devastating he predicted the coronavirus would be and how he tried to get his superiors to listen.
As if his claims were the biggest story of the day, Jiang decried that “President Trump is not addressing the bombshell report, focusing instead on reopening the country.”
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