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(LifeSiteNews) — White House COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci has long been the target for conservative ire regarding the federal government’s heavy-handed COVID-19 response, but it appears his scarf-wearing sidekick deserves equal opprobrium.
Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator during the Trump administration, quietly admitted in a recent book that she engaged in “strategic sleight-of-hand” and “subterfuge” to circumvent the White House’s more limited COVID-19 guidance, instead recommending crippling lockdowns that annihilated civil liberties, kneecapped the economy, and shuttered churches.
In her book Silent Invasion, which purports to tell the “Untold Story of the Trump Administration,” Birx said that immediately after convincing the Trump administration “to implement our version of the two-week shutdown,” she “was trying to figure out how to extend it.”
Birx also admitted to devising ways to circumvent the more moderate COVID-19 advice from the White House, including a “write, submit, revise, hide, resubmit” routine for pandemic reports
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