Ousted HHS vaccine expert Rick Bright makes a powerful case against the president, but may be pressed at Thursday’s hearing about his own claims and record
Trump in mid-January were seen as so dire that some Trump aides dismissed them as "alarmist," POLITICO previously reported.
Bright alleges that the department’s top lawyer, Charrow, applied pressure to rush the malaria drugs and was personally involved in writing aspects of the plan — a point backed up by several emails included in his complaint — even asworried about the lack of evidence that the drugs could help treat Covid-19 and the potential risk to patients. According to Bright's lawyers, it was the first time that he recalls the department's top lawyer calling him directly to discuss a drug donation.
Bright’s defenders have acknowledged that he tried to compromise with his bosses over hydroxychloroquine. “I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit,” the vaccine expert said in an April 22 statement.
“To the outside, you can’t see what we see working for him,” said one person who worked closely with Bright last year. “We would get yelled at when we didn’t provide him with documents that didn’t exist.”
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