Millhouse: Several colleagues of Rick Bright (including former FDA Director Dr. Scott Gotleib who knows him very well) and industry research directors have all said he was an outstanding researcher with a great understanding of commercialization of new drugs. You don’t change fire chiefs in the middle of fighting a fire. He was “insubordinate” like so many others from the WH perspective, because he had the chutzpah to say that the stupidity of the Trumpkopfs rants at his daily WH press briefings should not influence funding decisions for clinical trials. That apparently upset some young “white house liason” at HHS who ordered him transferred. And yes, the lawyers he hired for the past 10 years have been rated as the top litigators in D.C. for the narrow issue he is raising. I suspect you would have hired a DWI lawyer to litigate a whistle blower lawsuit.
P.S. If you haven’t followed, the WH personnel office has been sending over its own Trump loyalists to monitor every agency in the role of “liaisons” for political conformance. They can overrule agency directors on personnel matters. Believe what you want.
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