Donald Trump has revoked the protection of the “Secret Service”, the escort service of American presidents, for Kamala Harris. This was revealed by the CNN that cites a letter sent yesterday by the President to the Minister of National Security, Kristi Noem. The former presidents receive the protection of the secret services for life, while for the deputy the escort is limited by law six months after the end of the assignment. Technically Harris would no longer have been entitled to protection since July 21, but before leaving the White House, former president Joe Biden had postponed the expiry of a year. Trump, however, decided to revoke the extension.
“With this, it is authorized to stop any previously authorized security procedure” starting from September 1, reads the Memorandum signed by the President. The end of the protection comes just when Harris is about to start a lap of promotion of the book ‘107 Days’, on his short presidential campaign, to be released on September 23. “The vice -president is grateful to the United States Secret Service for his professionalism, dedication and unwavering commitment for security”, is the comment that Harris has entrusted to his councilor Kirsten Allen.
Trump chooses a no vax without medical training to guide public health
It does not have a medical training, in the past it has argued that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines to prevent Covid and yet it is today at the helm of the most important health agency in the United States, among the most prestigious in the world, on which the health is depending not only of the Americans but most of the western world. At the end of the most turbulent week for Centers for Disease Control, which became known globally to know with the abbreviation CDC during the Pandemia di Coronaviurus, Donald Trump has chased a scientist for years in public health and has appointed, at Interim, the deputy of Robertr Kennedy Jr, Jim O’Neill.
Unlike Susan Monarez, the new number one of the agency is not a researcher but an entrepreneur from Biotech. At the time of the presidency of George W. Bush was the Speech Writer of the Health Department and then worked with Peter Thiel, the highest lender of the Republicans.
But what worries the employees of the CDC most, as internal sources have reported to the ANSA defining the “absurd” appointment, are its positions on vaccines. During Covid’s pandemic, in fact, O’Neill publicly expressed its support for unjust and not supported treatments by scientific evidence, including ivemectin and hydroxiclorochine, as well as vitamin D as presumed “prophylaxis”. Not only that, it also relaunched several conspiracy theories on social media, including the unfounded affirmation according to which “the name #covid was chosen to hide the origin of the virus. This name made the study more difficult and probably slowed down the answer”.
“The CDC is practically imploded yesterday and now it is really in chaos,” commented on Guardian Katelyn Jetelina, epidemiologist and former agency consultant by warning that it is “a risk for national American security.” After Monarez’s torpedoing, four resigned: Debra Houry, medical manager of the CDC; Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiration Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zonotic Infectious Diseases; and Jennifer Layden, director of the data office, surveillance and technology of public health. Daskalakis wrote in his letter of resignation of “having never experienced a lack of transparency so radical, nor of having witnessed such a clumsy manipulation to achieve a political purpose”.
The researcher, a key figure in the strategy against Covid and avian influence, is one of the many voices that have asked Kennedi’s resignation accusing him of making decisions, for example on the measles of measles in Texas that caused the death of a child, without consulting with the experts. A few days ago the secretary panicked the scientific community by announcing the limits on the distribution of anti-covid vaccines, “only for high-risk people”, without the food and drug ad administration has never expressed itself. Another example of that lack of transparency that alarms scientists and worries those who live in the United States.