Trump’s CDC Director nominee, Susan Monarez, is, to put it diplomatically, highly suspect in her dedication to the MAHA agenda.
Exhibit A in the case is the following glowing endorsement of the nominee by none other than the editorial board at the CIA-funded swamp rag the Washington Post.
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Via Washington Post (emphasis added):
Susan Monarez might end up being one of the most important people in President Donald Trump’s administration. As acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the nominee to hold the position permanently, she has the power to frustrate the anti-vaccine agenda of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Based on her performance at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, she might just be up to that task.
Monarez was nominated after senators balked at the anti-vaccine positions of Dave Weldon, Trump’s first choice for the job. She would be the first person without a medical degree to fill the role, but she is a well-respected scientist with a doctorate in microbiology and immunology. She also served as deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
Most important, she has no record suggesting she subscribes to the vaccine skepticism that Kennedy and many of his newly appointed allies at the CDC have expressed. “I think vaccines save lives,” she said at her confirmation hearing. She also defended mRNA vaccines, the technology that was used to quickly develop shots against the coronavirus, as “safe” and insisted she has “no a priori prejudices against mRNA platform or any other approach that is being taken to develop vaccines.”…
The Senate should confirm her, and fast. Monarez, meanwhile, needs to recognize the burden she is accepting. Being CDC director is not an easy job, even in less contentious times. Having to report to Kennedy makes it incalculably harder. Lives will depend on whether Monarez resists Kennedy’s efforts to make America sick again. If she’s not willing to do that, she should step aside.
In my personal view, nothing could possibly be more damning for a potential CDC Director nominee than a glowing endorsement from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.
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A panelist on human-turtle hybrid Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show expressed similar optimism that Monarez could be used as an arsonist inside the administration to “confront her boss, Bobby Kennedy, and confront Donald Trump”:
Far from indulging in baseless optimism, Velshi and Co. of the legacy media and their pharmaceutical sponsors have good reason to believe that Monarez could be their girl inside of the administration.Susan may be the bright light in all of this… We’ll see if she can have the strength to stand up… and confront the vaccine advisory committee, confront her boss, Bobby Kennedy, and confront Donald Trump… If she does, this may be the saving grace in this otherwise nightmare of a degraded public health system in the United States.
Here she is singing the praises of the mRNA shots in recent congressional testimony:
Monarez’s pedigree is highly suspect, having been involved with the National Security Council “improving pandemic preparedness” and the Department of Homeland Security bioweapons program, euphemistically called “biodefense.”The FDA has, in the production of the COVID-19, had approved the mRNA vaccines as safe and had demonstrated efficacy associated with them… We can have the confidence that we can put it in ourselves and our children and our family members.
Via CDC (emphasis added):
Dr. Monarez comes to CDC from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), most recently serving as deputy director of ARPA-H since January 2023.
Prior to joining ARPA-H, Dr. Monarez led high-impact initiatives focusing on the ethical use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to support improved health outcomes, novel approaches to addressing affordability and accessibility in healthcare, expanding access to behavioral and mental health interventions, ending the opioid epidemic, addressing health disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality, and improving the country's organ donation and transplantation programs.
Dr. Monarez served at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and on the National Security Council, leading efforts to enhance the nation's biomedical innovation capabilities, including combating antimicrobial resistance, expanding the use of wearables to promote patient health, ensuring personal health data privacy, and improving pandemic preparedness. She has also held leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security and has led numerous international cooperative initiatives to promote bilateral and multilateral health innovation research and development.
Here she is refusing to acknowledge that it was inappropriate for Anthony Fauci to use his official position to pressure scientists into condemning the now-vindicated proponents of the lab leak theory early in the pandemic.
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One has to wonder who picked this lady out of a sea of candidates, and why. Given her checkered past, I find it hard to believe RFK Jr. would have selected or endorsed her as CDC director.
So who did?
And whose interests will she serve if she assumes the role?
