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- Andy Slavitt, a former senior adviser to the White House on the COVID-19 pandemic under President Biden, detailed in his new book “Preventable” an encounter he had with Birx last August in Minnesota.
- “At one point, after a brief pause, she looked me in the eye and said, ‘I hope the election turns out a certain way,’” Slavitt wrote.
- Slavitt wrote in his new book that Birx said she had been “completely silenced” and was not permitted to appear on national media.
A new book claims former White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx hinted she wanted former President Trump to lose the 2020 presidential election.
Andy Slavitt, a former senior adviser to the White House on the COVID-19 pandemic who recently stepped down, detailed in his new book “Preventable” an encounter he had with Birx last August in Minnesota after she briefed local officials on the outbreak, according to CNN.
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“I wanted to get a sense for whether, in the event of a strained transition of government, she would help give Biden and his team the best chance to be effective,” Slavitt writes in the book, CNN reported.
“At one point, after a brief pause, she looked me in the eye and said, ‘I hope the election turns out a certain way,” Slavitt writes.
“I had the most important information I needed,” he said.
Birx was one of Trump’s most visible coronavirus advisers early on in the pandemic before falling out the former president’s favor and being replaced by Scott Atlas, a radiologist with no epidemiological experience. She was sidelined from her role and spent her time traveling around the country providing data to local officials on the status of the pandemic.
CNN reports she had invited Slavitt to the briefing in Minnesota. Slavitt advised several officials on the pandemic during the Trump administration, including Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Slavitt wrote in his new book that Birx said she had been “completely silenced” and was not permitted to appear on national media.
Slavitt last week stepped down from his role as senior adviser to the Biden administration’s coronavirus response effort. Before taking on the role, Slavitt spent time as acting administrator of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2015 to 2017.
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