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catbyte

(34,552 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:41 PM Aug 2020

Trump-loving FDA spokeswoman booted from her job after just 11 days

August 28, 2020
By Brad Reed



Emily Miller, the Trump-loving spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration who was hired just eleven days ago, has already been fired.

The New York Times reports that FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn gave Miller the ax after she “fumbled communications about a blood plasma treatment for Covid-19.”

Miller, a longtime gun rights activist and former journalist for the far-right One America News Network, has now tied the record for shortest tenure at a Trump administration job after former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was similarly ousted after just eleven days.

“Dr. Hahn notified senior leadership at the FDA on Friday that Ms. Miller would no longer be the official spokeswoman for the agency, and that he would be appointing someone to replace her in an interim capacity,” reports the Times. “Ms. Miller could not be reached for comment.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-loving-fda-spokeswoman-booted-from-her-job-after-just-11-days/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/health/blood-plasma-fda.html

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Trump-loving FDA spokeswoman booted from her job after just 11 days (Original Post) catbyte Aug 2020 OP
She was there for one Scaramucci. Olafjoy Aug 2020 #1
All the best people! splunge63 Aug 2020 #2
How do these incompetent nincompoops think procon Aug 2020 #3
And the wall keeps crumblin' down. Crumbin' down LakeArenal Aug 2020 #4
I wonder what communications Emily Miller allegedly "fumbled"? gratuitous Aug 2020 #5

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. How do these incompetent nincompoops think
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:55 PM
Aug 2020

They can pull off a job the requires specialized knowledge, experience and understand of the complex issues at hand?

They must know that at some point the smoke is going to clear and the curtains will be pulled back to reveal the unqualified fool at the helm. Did she think her looks would carry her through?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. I wonder what communications Emily Miller allegedly "fumbled"?
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 01:04 PM
Aug 2020

I'd guess that not a word escaped her pie hole that wasn't 100% provided by the Trump administration. It's just that the ridiculous position taken by Trump was so ineffectual that it was strangled in the cradle. Well, somebody's got to pay for Donald's boner, and it's a lead-pipe cinch that it isn't going to be Donald. So long, Emily! We hardly knew ye (but it was more than enough).

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