Late last week, Donald Trump nominated a replacement for Christi Grimm, HHS principal deputy inspector general. Trump was reportedly angry with Grimm over a report she wrote last month detailing medical supply shortages and COVID19 testing delays in hospitals.
The optics of that are admittedly … not great.
But author and Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum’s take isn’t a good look, either:
In the Soviet Union, competent bureaucrats were eliminated if their truth-telling embarrassed the Leader. Trump is creating the same kind of dysfunctional loyalty cult in Washington, DC, right before our eyes. And no one is stopping him. https://t.co/3Z2FCAESSO
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 2, 2020
“Eliminated” in the Soviet Union meant (or still means, rather) something very different from what Donald Trump has done. We have to assume that Anne knows the difference but just doesn’t care. She’s written books about communism, for crying out loud.
Uh Anne, the Soviet Union murdered them. https://t.co/O0YTGbdRs1
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 4, 2020
Again, how are her books so good but her twitter so bad?
— wew (@cowe56) May 4, 2020
No one edits her tweets.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 4, 2020
That must be it.
So now Trump is Joseph Stalin? Whatever happened to Trump is Hitler or is that out?
— 2BarkingWesties (@2BarkingWesties) May 4, 2020
That is, like, so 2019. Until it comes back, anyway.
Read about it right herehttps://t.co/fSklpy2P3P
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 4, 2020
Trump is doing this now? Seems like a pretty big story. Why haven't you written it?
— China is lying (@jtLOL) May 4, 2020
We’re dying to read about it.
