Trump "Simply Does Not Care" About AIDS

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HIV AND AIDS JUST
EXPERIENCED A MASS RESIGNATION, WITH SIX MEMBERS LEAVING DUE TO,
IN THEIR WORDS, DONALD TRUMP'S COMPLETE LACK OF INTEREST IN THE
TOPIC.
THEY WROTE A LETTER WHICH IS AVAILABLE VIA NEWSWEEK, I
WANT TO READ A COUPLE SECTIONS, IT GETS INTO A TOPIC THAT EVEN
ON SHOWS LIKE THIS DOESN'T RECEIVE ITS DUE TIME.
THEY SAID
--
>>THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POLICIES YOU COULD PERHAPS THINK
THEY ARE INDICATING THERE, I WOULD SAY THAT THE HEALTHCARE
BILL IS PROBABLY A LARGE ONE CONSIDERING THE EFFECT OF
MEDICAID SPENDING FOR THOSE SEEKING TREATMENT.
THEY GO ON TO
SAY --
>>-- THAT SEEMS PRETTY DAMNING BY ITSELF.
THEY GO ON TO SAY --
>>THAT IS A
DAMNING LETTER.
AND THEY DIDN'T JUST WRITE THIS IN
PROTEST, THEY RESIGNED.
SIX PEOPLE.
>>AMAZING TO SEE WE WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE FROM THE OUTSIDE.
>>THAN ADVISING THE PRESIDENT.
>>YES, YOU WOULD THINK ADVISING THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE THE
MORE EFFECTIVE WAY OF ADVOCATING.
INCREDIBLE.
>>IT GOES WITH EVERYTHING WE THINK WE KNOW ABOUT THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
I THINK THAT LETTER WAS RIGHT ON, I DON'T
THINK THEY ARE LISTENING OR IN ANY WAY CONCERNED WITH THIS
COMMUNITY THAT HAS HIV, AIDS, OR IS DEALING WITH IT IN ANY WAY.
THEY ARE RIGHT.
AS EFFED UP AS IT IS, THEY MIGHT BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN TERMS
OF CREATING A PUBLIC OUTCRY FROM THE OUTSIDE.
>>OUTLETS WON'T TALK MUCH ABOUT THIS OR COVER IT AT ALL, AND IF
TRUMPCARE GOES INTO EFFECT AND THEORETICALLY IF A LOT OF PEOPLE
WHO ARE GETTING THEIR TREATMENTS THROUGH THE FUNDING THAT WAS
PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE BUT MIGHT NOT IN THE FUTURE, THOSE PEOPLE
COULD THEORETICALLY DIE UNNECESSARILY.
THANKFULLY THERE
ARE PRINCIPLED PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR THEM NOW PERHAPS THE ONLY
WAY THEY CAN, THROUGH RESIGNATION AND GOING TO WORK
FOR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, BUT NONE OF THIS NEEDED TO HAPPEN.
THESE WERE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE WORKING PREVIOUSLY, THERE
WAS A STRATEGY, AND THERE HAD BEEN SOME SUCCESS, INSTANCES OF
INFECTION HAD GONE DOWN, THERE WAS SOME PROGRESS BEING MADE
THAT UNFORTUNATELY COULD BE REVERSED TO LETHAL EFFECT FOR
MANY AMERICANS.
AND JUST TO UPDATE YOU, BECAUSE IT'S
POSSIBLE THAT YOU, LIKE ME, KNEW MORE ABOUT THIS EPIDEMIC WHEN IT
WAS SCARIER, THEORETICALLY, AT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE UNFORTUNATELY
MOVED ON AND DON'T PAY AS MUCH ATTENTION --
>>I BELIEVE THAT IS THE MOST
RECENT YEAR THEY HAVE DATA FOR.
THAT IS DOWN, STILL STRUGGLING WITH THIS, AND MANY WILL
OBVIOUSLY FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE.
SO TO HAVE AN
ADMINISTRATION THAT -- I'M NOT SAYING HE NEEDS TO GO TO
THE MEETINGS EVERY DAY, BUT YOU COULD AT LEAST APPOINT
SOMEONE TO THE POSITION WHO WILL FIGHT FOR THESE PEOPLE.
>>UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY POSITIONS HE
HASN'T FILLED.
PEOPLE POINTED OUT IN THE WAKE OF THE DESTROYER
CRASH THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF
HIGH-PROFILE -- I THINK MAYBE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, THERE
MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A NOMINATION YET.
I BELIEVE AMBASSADOR TO
JAPAN HASN'T CURRENTLY BEEN PUT INTO EFFECT --
>>THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DECIDE WHICH DONOR SHOULD GET
THAT AMBASSADORSHIP.
>>SOME OF THOSE AMBASSADORSHIPS ARE CEREMONIAL.
CAROLINE KENNEDY
WAS THE AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, THERE ARE CEREMONIAL ONES.
BUT
IT IS THE SUBSTANTIVE ONES -- WHEN THERE IS A BOMBING IN
MANCHESTER AND WE DON'T HAVE A HEAD OF THE FBI TO HELP
COORDINATE WITH OUR ALLIES, THINGS LIKE THAT ARE SO
EMBARRASSING.
>>IF THE EBOLA CRISIS HAPPENED THIS YEAR, WOULD THERE BE ANYONE
IN TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION WHO KNEW A DAMN ABOUT EBOLA?
WHETHER
WE DISAGREE ON THE POLICIES, AT LEAST YOU HAD A DESIRE FOR
COMPETENCE IN THE ADMINISTRATION.
IN SOME CASES
BRINGING IN PEOPLE THAT HAVE EXPERTISE, LIKE FROM WALL
STREET, I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THEY DO WITH THAT
EXPERTISE, BUT THERE WAS A RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF
THE POSITIONS, A DESIRE TO FOR THEM TO BE HELD IN A WAY THAT
WON'T LEAVE PEOPLE SUFFERING AND DYING.
AND THERE'S A COMPLETE
LACK OF INTEREST.
THIS IS A GUY WHO CAN'T STAFF SOMETHING LIKE
78 MAJOR POSITIONS IN THE PENTAGON, AND HE WATCHES FOUR OR
FIVE HOURS A DAY OF CABLE NEWS?
>>WE ARE HEADING INTO HURRICANE SEASON, FOREST FIRE SEASON, WE
DON'T HAVE A FEMA DIRECTOR.
>>WHAT IF PORTUGAL HAD HAPPENED HERE?
>>AND THERE ISN'T A SCIENTIST ALLOWED ANYWHERE NEAR THE
WHITE HOUSE, OR SCIENTIFIC MIND.
THEY STOPPED THEM AT THE MAIN GATE AS THOUGH THEY ARE
GUYS WITH HANDGUNS.
THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENTISTS.
>>IF
THEY WERE GUYS WITH HANDGUNS THEY WOULD SAY COME ON IN.
>>BAD EXAMPLE.

Trump "Simply Does Not Care" About AIDS

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