"I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made. So I know that someone ... was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president. I don't know to this day who." -- Dr. Birx
Dr. Birx says there were people in the Trump White House who believed coronavirus is "a hoax."
Asked about Trump's infamous comments suggesting bleach injections could be a treatment for coronavirus, Birx tries to push back against the notion that she became an apologist for President Trump (she definitely was an apologist for Trump!)
Birx claims that despite working as the coordinator of the White House Covid task force, she basically never saw Trump after springtime
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Birx on how Trump got Covid: "There were only two people who regularly wore a mask in the White House: myself, and [an HHS staffer]"
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