About those two lies told during the cabinet meeting. Do they matter?

[berg80]

....or he misspoke based on the information he was given. What a mystery!

Either way - one misspoken sentence out of a paragraph stating how serious they are taking the "measles epidemic" is hardly "downplaying it".

Like I said - there is a difference between intentionally "downplaying it" vs simply stating that it has happened before - in order to avoid widespread panic.

Not understanding that the information he gave was incorrect is either a reflection of his incompetence or the incompetence of the staff he hired.

 

[jc456]

Their expertise lies in technology. Not in the knowledge of where cuts can be made without doing harm.

How would you know?

 

[jc456]

Not understanding that the information he gave was incorrect is either a reflection of his incompetence or the incompetence of the staff he hired.

How would you know?

 

[Ace Nova]

Not understanding that the information he gave was incorrect is either a reflection of his incompetence or the incompetence of the staff he hired.

Although not nearly as serious as you or some media are making it out to be - as I stated, Kennedy will need to pay better attention to detail when speaking of similar subjects in the future - because people like yourself and many in the media will nitpick and scrutinize his every word - no matter how trivial or insignificant they may be.

 

[Lesh]

Although not nearly as serious as you or some media are making it out to be - as I stated, Kennedy will need to pay better attention to detail when speaking of similar subjects in the future - because people like yourself and many in the media will nitpick and scrutinize his every word - no matter how trivial or insignificant they may be.

He’s in a very important position for which he is totally unprepared and totally ignorant

Not to mention batshit crazy

 

[Delldude]

Lie #1 came from Elon who said, while explaining mistakes will be made, the aid cut for Ebola prevention was immediately restored.

Taking ownership and admitting they made mistakes is what responsible people do in government.

Yet you have an issue with that.

 

[Lesh]

Taking ownership and admitting they made mistakes is what responsible people do in government.

Yet you have an issue with that.

Acting carelessly and callously and then saying oops… doesn’t cut it

 

[Delldude]

Acting carelessly and callously and then saying oops… doesn’t cut it

It's about taking responsibility for ones statements and/or actions.

That's how a democracy should work.

 

[Delldude]

Acting carelessly and callously and then saying oops… doesn’t cut it

13 dead in Afghanistan...........oops.........shit fuck?

 

[scruffy]

"We don’t hospitalize patients for quarantine purposes," Johnson said.
.

What part of this escapes the leftard consciousness?

 

[scruffy]

Vague, unsubstantiated deflections like that illustrate your inability to deal with the lies of trump admin officials who reveal the extent of their incompetence with each passing day.

All I'm seeing is winning.

As usual, leftards make up lies to suit their purposes.

 

[berg80]

Although not nearly as serious as you or some media are making it out to be - as I stated, Kennedy will need to pay better attention to detail when speaking of similar subjects in the future - because people like yourself and many in the media will nitpick and scrutinize his every word - no matter how trivial or insignificant they may be.

You are being far too forgiving to the HHS secretary for not understanding why a measles patient would be in the hospital.

 

[scruffy]

“The full spectrum — the investments in disease surveillance, the investments in what we mobilize … moving commodities, supporting lab workers — that capacity is now a tenth of what it was,” Bouri said.
Other current and former USAID officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal operations, agreed with Bouri’s assessment.
“There was a waiver for Ebola, but USAID funds have never been back online,” said a current official. “USAID has been frozen: \staff and money.”
“If there was a need to respond to Ebola, it would be a disaster assistance response team, or DART,” said one former official. “There is no longer a capability to send a DART or support one from Washington. Many of those people are contractors who were let go at the very beginning.”

Wow, there's a novel concept.

Only respond to an emergency if it's an emergency.

 

[Crepitus]

Lie #1 came from Elon who said, while explaining mistakes will be made, the aid cut for Ebola prevention was immediately restored.

Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.​

Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of Ebola — but the billionaire entrepreneur insisted that the initiative was quickly restored.

“We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly,” Musk said at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials, defending his group’s fast-moving approach to canceling federal programs in a bid for cost savings. “So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately. And there was no interruption.”

Yet current and former USAID officials said that Musk was wrong: USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been largely halted since Musk and his DOGE allies moved last month to gut the global-assistance agency and freeze its outgoing payments, they said. The teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an Ebola outbreak have been dismantled, they added. While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts were sharply curtailed compared to past efforts to fight Ebola outbreaks.

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www.washingtonpost.com

Lie #2 came from RFK Jr. He said the 20 patients hospitalized with the measles, while downplaying the outbreak as routine, were there for the purposes of being quarantined.

First measles death reported in Texas as Kennedy downplays the outbreak​

Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, said during a news conference Wednesday afternoon that the patients who were hospitalized were admitted because they were having trouble breathing and needed supportive care such as supplemental oxygen.

"We don’t hospitalize patients for quarantine purposes," Johnson said.

She added that her team has cared for “around 20” kids with measles so far. Several of those patients required intensive care. None of the hospitalized had been vaccinated against measles.

First measles death reported in Texas as Kennedy downplays the outbreak

At least 124 people have been infected in the fast-spreading outbreak. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “we have measles outbreaks every year.”

www.nbcnews.com

It should be noted that as a special government employee, Musk has no authority to issue directives. He is not only limited to being only in an advisory role, on top of that........."criminal law prevents SGEs (as well as federal workers) from participating in any government matter that could impact their finances. When a conflict arises, SGEs can either recuse themselves from the matter or divest from the relevant financial interest."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5293124/special-government-employee-trump-musk-doge

In order to get around the law, which is clearly being broken, the WH is pretending someone besides Elon is running the show.

Who Is Running the U.S. DOGE Service?

At a recent hearing, no one—not even the Trump administration’s own lawyers—seemed to know.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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My guess is the lies won't matter until they do. Until RFK and Musk's incompetence break through the onslaught of reporting on the constant chaos being created by this admin every single day. So much so as to render the HHS secretary and co-prez SGE being terrible at their jobs a fact trump supporters just don't give a damn about.

They are tRumplings. Most of what they say will be lies.

And they all matter.

 

[Delldude]

They are tRumplings. Most of what they say will be lies.

And they all matter.

Lie and lie again, Pappy.

 

[Crepitus]

Lie and lie again, Pappy.

Ayup, that's what they do.

 

[scruffy]

So a bunch of twenty something dweebs are trashing agencies that deal with things as important as Ebola

How many Ebola cases have there been worldwide in the last 365 days?

Answer the question, genius.

 

[Delldude]

Ayup, that's what they do.

You, clown man.............

 

[scruffy]

Not understanding that the information he gave was incorrect is either a reflection of his incompetence or the incompetence of the staff he hired.

What part of what he said was incorrect?

Be specific.

 

[Lesh]

How many Ebola cases have there been worldwide in the last 365 days?

Answer the question, genius.

What’s your point?