New Documentary Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns
“It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how a career bureaucrat seized control of the government and created a disaster. And Birx had help…from Pence.
Legal Insurrection recently looked back on the 4th anniversary of “15 days to Slow the Spread,” highlighting the spate of disastrous consequences of the covid lockdowns that extended in some locales for three years.
I have often noted the role of Dr. Anthony Fauci in this fiasco. But a new documentary reminded me about”Scarf Lady” Dr. Deborah Birx.
“It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how Birx, a career bureaucrat, seized control of the government from President Donald Trump and created a disaster.
The documentary shows how Birx was invited to join the White House Coronavirus Panel in March 2020 through a connection with former Vice President Mike Pence. Her qualification was being the leader in the Office of the Global Aid Coordinator (OGAC) as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program.
Interestingly, there was an Inspector General report on complaints about her leadership style, which is described as dictatorial and “lacking rationale.” The complaints in the letter should have been heeded.
In addition to concerns about performance targets, country team members cited broader issues related to OGAC’s management approach. Of 68 statements the inspector general’s office received about OGAC’s leadership, 49 — or 72% — were negative. The auditors cited responses that described OGAC’s leadership as “dictatorial,” “directive,” and “autocratic.”
“Sometimes decisions are made without clear rationale other than ‘[the Global AIDS Coordinator] told you to,” one respondent told the auditors.
Another reported that an implementing agency with “high level technical staff” has been “directed to read the [planning] letter and do exactly that.”
“Let’s just obey and move on. This is a worrying trend. Working in fear and a space where nothing is negotiable. It is causing a lot of strain with the government. Also losing gains made in the country. There should be room for negotiation and allow people to air their views,” the same person reported.
The documentary notes that Birx was the covid policy maker on the panel, not Fauci . . . whom the film suggests was merely its “face.” Birx handled covid, caused by an airborne respiratory virus that is readily transmittable, using the exact same approach used for AID—a bloodborne pathogen that is substantially more difficult to contract.
The playbook she used was taken directly from her PERFAR experience.
- Treat the disease as a killer.
- Focus on children.
- Get to zero cases at any cost.
Thus, the “15 days to slow the spread” morphed into the national nightmare from which we are still recovering.
In April 2020, Trump began asking questions about how effective the lockdowns were compared to the harm being done to the nation and its citizens. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow in health policy from the Hoover Institute, was brought in. He began his work to reverse the tide by challenging the high Infection Fatality Rate, indicating the virus was actually low risk for the young and healthy.
Eventually, Atlas brought in a number of scientists who were also challenging the “COV-AIDS” approach Birx was using. In fact, a meeting with Trump was reporedly scheduled in August 2020, so that Birx could be there.
Atlas explained that meeting was almost scrapped when Birx cancelled, then changed to a 5-minute meet-and-greet with Trump. Then Trump began asking the scientists probing questions, and the session was extended to 45 minutes.
Atlas says Birx was attempting to sabotage their efforts.
[Trump] went through and asked point by point all of the five of us these questions and it went on for 45 minutes. And I kept being tapped on the shoulder saying Scott, you know, wrap it up, we have other things. And I said, OK, but meantime, I’m not gonna interrupt the president of the United States. That’s obvious. Secondly, this was important. Third, he was asking great questions and in fact, called in his video maker, and said he was so happy to have what he called “five geniuses” here that he brought in the video, and I narrated a small video and we introduced ourselves on the video.
Of course, that video has been suppressed. There was never a press release. It was viewed as, as harmful that it was held without Birx. But Birx backed out of it and in fact, tried to sabotage it, I believe. But luckily, we were there.
Ultimately, Birx continued to issue lockdown policies using White House stationery and scuttling Trump’s attempts to reopen the country.
The kicker: Pence allowed Birx to use Air Force Two to fly around the country and undermine the efforts of Atlas and the other serious and well-qualified scientists who disagreed with the Birx model.
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the documentary was the audio of Birx herself bragging about how she subverted Trump and his advisors.
Well, with a little help from Pence.
“I made it very clear to the Vice President, and I said, “You know I’m saying exactly the opposite of what the president is saying, and what Scott Atlas is saying. And the Vice President said, “You do what you need to do.
I just want you to grasp this: The White House with the White House emblem on it is send this report to governors every week. And it says completely the opposite of what the President is saying. Despite the fact Scott Atlas would say, “The President’s policy is…I’m like, “Have the President tell me”.
I went tp the communications leads and I said, “You can’t put Scott Atlas out”. I can’t stop him from talking to the President. But I can stop him being on national news. They said, “OK”.
If Trump wins in November, I hope that he has learned some lessons from Argentina’s new President Javier Milei on how to handle our de facto 4th branch of government—the Administrative State housed in the Executive Branch. And he needs to select pick a much better VP, too.
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Ive known pence was a traitor for some time and some there have people that have reported this about him and the scarf lady for years
Well, with a little help from Pence.
“I made it very clear to the Vice President, and I said, “You know I’m saying exactly the opposite of what the president is saying, and what Scott Atlas is saying. And the Vice President said, “You do what you need to do.
“I just want you to grasp this: The White House with the White House emblem on it is send this report to governors every week. And it says completely the opposite of what the President is saying. Despite the fact Scott Atlas would say, “The President’s policy is…I’m like, “Have the President tell me”.
Did you not listen to the portion of the video where they explain that the White House staff, including Jerrod Kushner, were supposedly just scanning the information being sent out? How long did it take for them to drill down to see if this even came close to some of Trump’s questions?
This tells me that either the White House staff was incompetent, occulted the information as long as they could, or knew what was in the communiques and were okay with it. Then follow this – if they knew about it and informed Trump – what changed with respect to the national response? Little to nothing changed.
While I’m not a fan of the progressive clowns currently “appearing” to run the national show today, I do not recall Trump pounding the bully pulpit to change course. That would have really made news.
As of 2021 the WHO reported that some 3.4 million people died from COVID.
And I suspect that in the long run there will be many more than that number who either died and/or suffered injury as a result of the mNRA gene therapy shot “packaged” as a vaccine.
This was just another round of population reduction because in their hearts, we the people are the problem. I’m sure their perspective is that they created us, and therefor they can destroy us as well.
Well, Trump trusted and believed in Pence so much that he made him his Vice President. So Pence has that going for him. Makes you wonder about all the people Trump will appoint if he is re-elected.
The post is about Birx, dingus. Not Trump.
Try to keep up, unless that TDS infection has reached your absurdly small brain.
Birx and Fauci formed a white-coat supremacist tag team to take down Trump, and, in the process, this pair of loyal Democrats enriched themselves and caused vast damage to the American people.
The pair have yet to be held accountable and the government agencies they deployed remain unreformed.
Does not absolve Fauci one bit.
Maybe or maybe not but it makes things a lot clearer
Fauci was dissembling before Birx and her scarves were a blip on the radar.
Are we sure that she was not working in the background from the beginning?
Fauci’s funding and support made it possible to produce the virus.
Birx, used it as a pretext to seize power she hadn’t earned and was not entitled to wield.
The funding part is a complete ruse. The idea that some Chinese bio-lab needs American money is laughable. What Fauci and the other traitors provided was much more important – expertise. They were teaching the commies what to do. The money was just the logistics of the treason. What they were really doing was seeding a communist Chinese bio-weapons lab with American and Western know-how and expertise. That is the real issue. Treason. The money is entirely inconsequential.
Well, Trump awarded Presidential Commendations to Dr. Anthony Fauci for his exceptional efforts on Operation Warp Speed: on Covid. So that is one of Trump’s accomplishments as President.
The comment was about Fauci. You made it about Trump. Par for the course.
But it is about Trump. Because the buck stops at the Resolute Desk and at the time Trump was the one sitting behind it. And no amount of blame shifting will change that.
It’s not a ruse if it’s true. We don’t give money to foreigners to do research for us or because they actually need the funds. We give them money to put eyes and ears inside their research. What we don’t contribute to, we don’t get such access. Want access? That costs money.
If Fauci gave money to the WIV (directly or indirectly) to conduct research that resulted (ultimately) in the pandemic, yeah, that matters and is not a distraction. It’s an important element to understand our own government’s involvement in the affair. Without it, a lot of bad actors are not only off the hook, they’re not even on the radar.
Sorry, that was supposed to respond to OrderedPair.
What is it about subterfuge that you don’t understand? The whole point of subterfuge is that it’s supposed to go unnoticed and its targets are intentionally deceived.
nor the Bircks….. she is a lng tailed rat and hs been for far too long. Put her out on a small pension, AFTER taking back any prifit she made during the ‘demic based on her lies.
The buck still stops with the president
He has access to more information than any of the rest of us and he’s the one at the top that makes the call.
He’s the boss, the others are his advisors.
I think that is MarkS’s point.
The search for culprits is very odd. It seems more culprits for being left than being wrong, just my sense.
Correctness at the beginning was guesswork.
Guess you missed the lying and deception “guesswork” of Fauci about origins and Birx’s “dictatorial,” “directive,” and “autocratic” management style. Fuggedaboutit! No culprits. It’s just ideological. What nonsense.
Ok lets take this at face value; no one knew what the hell to do….then ‘first do no harm’ seems like a very important philosophy to maintain. Certainly shutting down schools, businesses, govt services, worship services was Cray Cray.
Many of us called this out in real time demanding to know what limiting principle for these ’emergency’ declarations and ‘temporary’ measures aka the 15 days nonsense were being followed. Turns out pretty much none except in a very few States whose Governors defied the propaganda S Dakota, GA FL as early examples….but they and the rest of us calling for it to stop were trashed as irresponsible and wanting to ‘open up too soon’. Those who enabled this deprivation of liberty know who they are, so do we for the most part, and these enablers are IMO equally guilty as the Fauci Fascists who pushed this travesty for nearly 2 years.
“It’s an emergency: do something!”
“We’re the ones in charge: do all the things!”
“This situation absolutely requires a really futile ans stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. And we’re just the guys to do it!”
People outside the emergency gotta be relentless about “when is this over?” Once the authoritah is grabbed, the wielders just want more. Like, say, The Patriot Act, or the AUMF from 20 years ago.
Yes indeed and after the fact and with full knowledge of hindsight a surprising number of folks will still seek to shield folks from accountability. Especially so those who are members of their political tribe.
IMO, the folks with political power who acquiesced to or enabled this deprivation of individual liberty are just as guilty as the authors and enforcers of its implementation…..unless and until they publicly recant, admit they are/were wrong, why/how they are/were wrong and what they gonna do to correct it/prevent it. A very few courageous Politicians have done that but many, even some very prominent, very high profile politicians, seem unable to recognize and acknowledge their own guilt offer an admission, an apology and some sort of atonement.
“It’s an emergency: do something!”
“We’re the ones in charge: do all the things!”
Precisely. Politicians know that “doing nothing” is unacceptable to the public, even when “doing nothing” is the best response to a situation. This is why so much ineffective legislation exists – much legislation isn’t meant to actually address a problem, it’s meant to help its supporters get reelected.
Florida had no statewide mandate but that didn’t matter because its counties created and enforced covid mandates, and Florida law then didn’t forbid corporate mask or vaccine mandates. Counties were making a mockery of state law that limited the duration of local emergencies by declaring a new emergency every time the old one expired. They could effectively create perpetual emergency declarations even though they were never intended to have that power. It was a couple of years before DeSantis got the legislature to put a stop to county overreach and corporate vaccine mandates, he did not act quickly to do it.
FL lifted stay at home on 1 May ’20. They didn’t ever have State mandated mask requirements. Some Cities/Counties did and in response DeSantis got the legislature to halt it in June ’21 and signed an EO in the interim between passage and the date it took effect. That’s not ‘years’.
There’s a lot of mythology and poor memories surrounding the Covid response by various politicians. It’s important that we sort out who was doing what and when v reverting back into protecting our political ‘favorite sons’.
I’ve come to the realization that no one anywhere knows what the heck they’re doing.
They certainly did know what to not do. A few years before the pandemic (2016?), the CDC published a pandemic response report that specifically identified lockdowns as unnecessary, ineffective, and having too many deleterious effects. This was the best advice of doctors and scientists unfettered by political considerations. When the SHTF, politics became a part of the mix and, predictably, corrupted the response.
Interesting stuff. To my mind, the vile Fraudci and Birx are equally contemptible, apparatchik birds of a feather.
Now we all have fully measure of both Pence and Brix, So much for Pence and religion, some of the worst people I have known used a façade of faith to cover their dirty deeds.
You mean like Trump ,who believes he has never sinned, never has to ask g_d for forgiveness, but who still eats his little cracker and drinks his little wine?
Your hate is noted.
Yet another fart in an elevator from you, “JR.”
You’d probably fit in better over at The Bulwark.
I’m sure you share certain… proclivities with them.
An ER Physician friend of mine wrote to me about one of his graduate colleagues who worked at NIH under Fauci in the 1990’s.
“Fauci was not a nice person. He said that he makes everyone sign a paper stating that he will be an author of anything that they find and publish and that he manipulates other people’s work and blocks other people’s publications through with the influence that he has. He actually despised him and stopped working there after about six years. So this guy is no saint. He also said that Fauci routinely invests in companies that the NIH had influence over or pieces of in return for their receiving funding by either doing a type of insider trading or getting a cut of anything they developed. These things are hard to track and come in the way of things like cash advances on books and speaking fees and consulting fees I don’t doubt it for a minute.”
So long term tenure in a government department has insider perks that are hard to identify. Further, when one has the biggest bullhorn, all opinions can be published or squashed with no recourse from dissenters.
“So long term tenure in a government department has insider perks that are hard to identify. Further, when one has the biggest bullhorn, all opinions can be published or squashed with no recourse from dissenters.”
So we might want to be careful about long-tenure in govt, and folks grabbing the bullhorns.
Dr. Birx has flown under the radar for too long and it is good to expose her. According to Scott Atlas, she was the single unsupervised voice of the Federal government advising the various governors and state administrators – unbelievable leverage. A number of things conspired against the Trump administration: Fauci and Birx were medical professionals and the rest of the White House staff did not have the technical foundation to contest their advice, Trump’s handlers did not want to create a fuss during the election year, and finally Pence simply did not have the management chops to handle this crisis. What they should have done was call for a “non-advocate” or “Red Team” or “Second Opinion” review. These are well known techniques to get management the perspective needed to craft successful policies. Both Birx and Fauci wanted no part of this but that should not have stopped Pence from forcing the issue and their participation.
Pence didn’t wan to do that, he was in on the scam from the beginning
Ah jr
Imagine the hue and cry from the Left/MSM if Trump had gainsaid the advice of (his own) medical experts! The likes of “JR” would have wanted him crucified then, but today they criticize him for not doing so.
Americans should seek vengeance for all the COVID plandemic tyranny with the same rigor, zeal and ruthlessness as the left is doing with J6.
NO MERCY. PRISON TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS.
This^^^^
…and why we are all heading for trouble.
I agree. And we should especially seek vengeance, with no mercy, prison time, and no exceptions, on Donald Trump for giving a Presidential Commendation to Fauci for his disastrous decisions about Covid.
And then we should make him run naked through the town square.
Ah…. so Trump gets prison for awarding a medal.
I suppose YOU get something far worse for your one-note posts here.
I followed everything closely in real time. Trump was determined to open up by Easter. Then that frauduent information from the Brit who was breaking the rules by visiting his girlfriend showed that millions and millions of people would die on the street without extreme lock downs. The information was late debunked, but so much damage was already inflicted.
Scarf Lady, who needs to repent before death, was nailed visiting her parents because “they were lonely and not eating.” Primal screams!! I remember a video of a man visiting his mom in the nursing home by standing at the window outside, his mom reaching out with tears in her eyes. I have a hard time not wishing the worst evil on “Brix” as the young military spokesman who was never seen again at the podium called her.
This article made my blood boil again over such a wretched person…
Trump also lost a good friend to Covid early on, about the same age as he was. I truly believe he cared about us and let himself get duped in so many ways. After he got Covid himself, he wanted everyone to have access to the treatments he received. He wanted bragging rights for the vaccine, but I also think he believed in it and wanted to help. He got it himself as did Melania. I sure hope Barron was not vaccinated.
He wanted us to all have access to the monoclonals
They literally worked miracles
Yes and some other treatment [not the vaccine], but I can’t remember what it was.
Hopefully not the hospital protocol. That was a killer. Literally.
True about the timing of the second act of panic porn BUT others in leadership positions made very different choices; Gov Noem in SD, Gov DeSantis in FL heck even Gov Kemp in GA. As these Gov were being blasted by lapdog legacy media for being reckless others joined in to bash them, some of them holding very SR political positions accusing them acting ‘too soon’. As we all now know these Gov were correct and the Fed Govt ‘experts’ were nearly totally wrong.
The Federal Covid response was not the finest hour for the Trump admin. I like the guy and will vote for him again just as I have twice before BUT we shouldn’t be afraid to admit the errors the Trump Admin made during Covid. Nor should Trump, frankly the best thing he could do to put this to bed is to admit the errors, vow not to repeat them, explain what lessons he learned during the Covid panic porn fiasco and exactly what he will do to defend individual liberty the next time the leftists try to use X as an excuse to undermine our liberty.
“Then that fraudulent information from the Brit who was breaking the rules by visiting his girlfriend…”
Oh, they’re very clear on “Respect my Authoritah!”; less clear on why you should.
So much noise flying around so little signal. So much ret-con after. Hard to keep track in real time, so scattered and rushed its near impossible to create a record as you do it, let alone a chance to look and think when you have a little more time.
One of the early-days pronouncements of ‘Rona disaster out of Britain came from repurposed / adapted climate simulation software. AIR this was the same implementation that google engineer went off on some years before: “This implementation is crap!” I think these were out of ?Oxford?
I gotta make it easier to capture n organize browse histories with footnotes.
I was more concerned about Redfield doing an interview where he said masks were better than vaccines a month or so after CDC published a summary of numerous studies, all saying that masks are useless.
Atlas had a pretty telltale indictment of Birx and Fauci and their bureaucracy over science approach in an interview with Prager U.
You watch PragerU, good grief man .. it’s unmitigated stupidity.
Oh .. so it was a woman from the longhouse who, in the name of safetyism, destroyed families, schools, churches, jobs, businesses and the economy. I’m shocked…
Just as I am shocked, shocked, I tell you, that every major social pathology today is downstream from the empathy voters and “Oh that poor….” illegal alien, incarcerated thug, rapist who had a bad childhood, murderer who wasn’t taught to read, etc. EVERY pathology affecting the West is downstream from suffrage. Including the fertility crisis.
We can have a safe, free, education society… OR .. enfranchise women. Like sex – it’s BINARY.
Repealing the 19th amendment seems a little bit too far IMO. Though it would be fair to expect that women also be required to register for selective service in order to shoulder the burden of civic responsibility to go along with voting rights. Not every military position is in the combat arms, there are plenty of non combat but highly necessary roles in the military that females are perfectly capable of performing during a period of conscription that would allow males to be freed up for combat roles.
“…empathy voters…”
People are suffering! Something must be done!
Hadit’s take on moral reasoning should have gotten the notion of multiple perspectives into the Zeitgeist. He doesn’t specifically call out effectiveness and competence, but I think those should play in as well. Feckless action becomes evil if you know better, or could.
For any one of these grand problems, Ok, try to fix it. What else happens? How you gonna do that … without violating physics, with stuff we know how to do, with resources we have, without costing more somewhere else than we gain on this here, without creating some immortal consuming machinery, a haven for parasites and sociopaths?
I can’t say I disagree, and I am a woman. But maybe if we limited voting only to taxpaying citizens, and disallowed anyone on public assistance, that would help.
Nan gets her hair done while Newsome eats hauté cuisine.
A more just society would have already lamp-posted Fauci and Birx with her own scarves. But sadly, we live in the no consequences era, where there are never negative repercussions to those who make egregious mistakes. [It was fun watching Admiral Kirby dance around the question of punishment for the US strike in Afghanistan which killed 10 innocent civilians.]
You gotta get caught repeatedly stealing luggage to get fired by the Biden administration.
Pence is an absolute scumbag.
Well, Trump thought he was GREAT!!!
I doubt that.
Pence is/was a fifth columnist.
Trump is/was lazy minded regarding everything outside of his lifelong sphere of working knowledge.
Birx was both a jumped-up, overambitious toady and an unwitting but willing patsy for forces far beyond her ken. Saying so certainly doesn’t pardon her – rather, it condemns her.
Didn’t Birx admit to all of this, herself, in that book of hers that no one read? She was proud of subverting elected government and forcing her communist, 90 IQ ideas onto a fearful and pliant public.
In Trump’s defense, outside of his request for the “15 days to flatten the curve” he stayed in his Constitutional lane an ddidn’t hvae the federal government forcing anything on anyone. All of the mandates and mass house arrests and forced store closures and the like were local tyrants running amok. Sure, there should have been federal officers arresting and dragging away countless insane petit tyrants (almost all dems) … but we even had the courts siding with the lunatic make-believe czars. The SCOTUS sided with California in establishing clearly that the First Amendment was completely meaningless drivel as they allowed the insane ban on church services to continue … but shopping at Walmart was peachy keen the whole time – everywhere.
If the Wuhan virus had been even 1/1000th as dangerous as the criminal officials had claimed pretty much all of Walmart would have been dead. But nothing really happened to any of them. They were open the whole time and everyone was funneled into the walmarts, since everything else was closed. But Walmart employees were never dropping dead … or even getting all too sick.
And then … long after all this, Traitor Joe stole the election and launched all the truly insane, totally un-Constitutional and un-American federal dictats.
So many people deserve to sit in prison for the rest of their natural lives because of their criminal actions during the Wuhan virus scare … SO, so many.
Anybody who ever worked in bioterrorism task forces knows that Birx was a dictatorial witch. She and Fauci botched so many situations that most states ignored their advice and went with what the folks at Fort Detrick/USAMRIID advised. Although not part of the CDC complex, the military was more reliable and less prone to hysteria and histrionics than Birx was. Certainly, they were far more collegial and dictatorial than she ever could be, and they were US Army.
Scott Atlas, the reason the US had such a high morality rate. What a joke