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    Biden Video on Trump ‘Silencing’ Expert

    by Eugene Kiely Mar 24, 2020 4 minutes

    Over the weekend, the Biden campaign posted a video that claims the Trump administration silenced Dr. Nancy Messonnier for “speaking out” about the new coronavirus at a Feb. 25 press briefing. But the campaign’s support for the claim is awfully thin.

    Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, has regularly led press briefings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and she continued to do so even after the Feb. 25 briefing.

    The Biden campaign video, which was posted on March 21, features , who served as former Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff and later as the Obama administration’s Ebola response coordinator.

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