I honestly can’t imagine not just saying “fuck you” we will work with the transition team.
Just makes zero sense to be cowed for the last month when the Trump officials have zero long term ability to do anything. Seems like it would be easy enough to be subversive without getting booted.
It’s annoying because they know it is dangerous but they lack the courage to actually do anything.
Trying to give Moderna an advantage seems really unlikely. Both companies have a product where, almost certainly for years and years, and possibly for decades, they can sell literallly as much of that product as they can produce at basically any price.
All I said was there is a conflict of interest in having the head of our vaccine push have 8 figures of stock in one manufacturer. That’s obviously true. There isn’t any proof anything nefarious has happened though.
Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser, served on the board of a limited liability company through which the Trump political operation has spent more than $700 million since 2019, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. She was also named on drafts of the company’s incorporation papers.
The arrangement has never been disclosed. One of the other board members and signatories in the draft papers of the L.L.C., American Made Media Consultants, was John Pence, the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence and a senior Trump adviser. The L.L.C. has been criticized for purposefully obscuring the ultimate destination of hundreds of millions of dollars of spending.