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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Dr. Scott Atlas had a front-row seat at the White House as a member of President Donald Trump's Coronavirus Task Force. Now, he's telling all in a new book, "A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America."
"The American people need to know the level of incompetence, the lack of rigor, the lack of critical thinking. I was stunned at what I saw," Atlas says of his time at the White House. "We had bureaucrats in charge of the policy and that policy was the restrictions and lockdowns. And it failed."
Atlas blames three public health officials: Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about his time on Trump's task force, President Joe Biden's failures, and a new academy he founded at Hillsdale College. Watch the full interview or read an abridged transcript at DailySignal.com.
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0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, December 13th. |
0:09.6 | I'm Rob Bluey. |
0:10.6 | And I'm Virginia Allen. |
0:12.0 | On today's show, Rob talks with Dr. Scott Atlas, a founding scholar at Hillsdale College's |
0:17.6 | Academy for Freedom in Science, an author of the new book, A Plague Upon Our House. |
0:24.1 | My fight at the Trump White House to stop COVID from destroying America. |
0:28.5 | Plus, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a construction |
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