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22-8-2020
Pelosi slams Trump ‘deep state’ comment about
coronavirus vaccines
House
speaker Nancy Pelosi described Donald Trump’s tweet accusing “the deep state,
or whoever, over at” the Food and Drug Administration of deliberately slowing
coronavirus vaccine and therapy development as “scary” and “beyond the pale”
even for the US president.
“The FDA
has a responsibility to approve drugs, judging on their safety and their
efficacy, not by a declaration from the White House about speed and
politicizing the FDA,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.
The
president’s amplification of the “deep state” conspiracy theory comes one day
after Fox Business host Lou Dobbs used it to explain the arrest of former Trump
campaign manager Steve Bannon.
Bannon
himself is a key propagator of the theory that unknown government operatives
are working against the Trump administration – but has also said the idea is
“for nut cases” and should not be taken seriously.
In Deep
State: Trump, the FBI and the Rule of Law by James B Stewart, published last
October, Bannon said the “deep state conspiracy theory is for nut cases”,
because “America isn’t Turkey or Egypt”.
Fox host blames ‘deep state’ for Bannon arrest –
Bannon says that's for 'nut cases'
Lou Dobbs claims ‘the deep state launched agents’ to arrest
Trump’s ex-adviser, who pleaded not guilty to fraud charge
Martin
Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Fri 21 Aug
2020 13.58 BSTLast modified on Fri 21 Aug 2020 17.12 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/steve-bannon-lou-dobbs-deep-state-conspiracy-theory
Fox
Business host Lou Dobbs has blamed the “deep state” conspiracy theory for the
arrest of Steve Bannon, the former Trump campaign manager who on Thursday
pleaded not guilty to a charge of skimming donations from a fundraising
campaign for a border wall with Mexico.
Bannon
himself is a key propagator of the theory that unknown government operatives
are working against the Trump administration – but has also said the idea is
“for nut cases” and should not be taken seriously.
Addressing
the story on his show on Thursday night, Dobbs, one of Donald Trump’s favorite
Fox hosts, said Bannon “was arrested this morning, not by the FBI or US
Marshals but by inspectors of the US Postal Service while Bannon was cruising
aboard a mega yacht, owned by a Chinese billionaire”.
“Yes, you
heard that correctly – an elite police unit of the Postal Service. They’re
called the US Postal Inspection Service and they had authority to arrest Bannon
and they did so … Somehow, the deep state launched agents of the US Postal
Service to arrest Mr Bannon.”
The “deep
state” is supposedly a conglomeration of bureaucrats and law enforcement agents
which exists to thwart Trump’s agenda. Bannon enthusiastically propagated the
theory when he was Trump’s campaign manager in the 2016 election and then a
senior adviser in the White House.
However,
since leaving Trump’s employ he has repeatedly cast doubt on the theory.
In Deep
State: Trump, the FBI and the Rule of Law by James B Stewart, published last
October, Bannon said the “deep state conspiracy theory is for nut cases”,
because “America isn’t Turkey or Egypt”.
There is a
formidable government bureaucracy in the US, he told Stewart, but “there’s
nothing ‘deep’ about it. It’s right in your face.”
Bannon also
described to the journalist Michael Wolff, for his book Siege: Trump Under
Fire, advice he gave to a ghostwriter working on Trump’s Enemies: How the Deep
State is Undermining the Presidency, a book by Trump aides Corey Lewandowski
and David Bossie.
As quoted
by Wolff, Bannon said: “You do realise that none of this is true.”
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