Trump fired the actual experts in pandemic response two years ago and doesn't trust anyone with actual expertise so now Mike Pence, who wrote columns doubting that cigarettes caused cancer, is in charge of the coronavirus.
"Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill" -- Mike Pence, 2000
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In a debate during Pence's campaign for Congress in 2000, Pence reportedly claimed, "there was no causal link medically identifying smoking as causing lung cancer."
That link was established in 1964.
politico.com/story/2016/10/…
That link was established in 1964.
politico.com/story/2016/10/…
As governor, Pence presided over "a massive HIV outbreak spurred by public health funding cuts and Pence’s moralistic stance against needle exchanges"
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