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Trump Slaps Gag Order on Coronavirus News

Herbert Dyer, Jr.
6 min readFeb 28, 2020

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been ordered by the Trump regime to clam up about any further developments as to the spread of the virus or the regime’s response to it without first getting his comments approved by the Trump regime. This directive comes just one day following a White House news conference about the rapidly spreading worldwide coronavirus infection.

During that presser, Trump repeatedly patted himself and his regime on their collective back as he effused about the “tremendous success” that he and his people were having in dealing with this spreading outbreak.

But to Trump’s obvious chagrin, at the very same conference, Dr. Fauci offered a decidedly less optimistic and more realistic view of the situation:

When it was focused only on China, we had a period of time, temporary, said the good doctor, that we could do a travel restriction that prevented cases from coming into the U.S. When you have multiple countries involved, it’s very difficult to do. In fact, it’s almost impossible.

And now, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that his state is “monitoring” at least 8,400 people for possible coronavirus infection. It has only been a matter of days since California recorded the first known…

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Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Written by Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Freelancer since the earth first began cooling. My beat, justice: racial, social, political, economic and cultural. I’m on FB, Twitter, Link, hdyerjr@gmail.com.

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