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ATLANTA, GA – DECEMBER, 5:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald is photographed at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA on Tuesday, December 5, 2017. (Photo by Melissa Golden for The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wow, this one really takes the cake. I would say, “even for Trump,” but frankly, no, there doesn’t seem to be a bottom to the Trump sewer.<\/p>\n

This kind of got buried by all the other never-ending scandals with the Trump Administration, but it’s a pretty good scandal … and pretty typical for a Trump appointee.<\/p>\n

It turns out the head of the Centers of Disease Control, Branda Fitzgerald, traded tobacco stocks — specifically Japan Tobacco\u00a0 stocks — AFTER<\/em> being appointed head of the \u00a0CDC.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, one of the major roles<\/em> of the CDC is tobacco control and tobacco education. And you have the head of that agency actually trading in tobacco company stock. If that isn’t bad enough, Fitzgerald also traded in RJ Reynolds, British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Philip Morris International and Altria Group before being appointed head of CDC. She’s involved up to her neck in Big Tobacco.<\/p>\n

A quote from a \u00a0New York Times article<\/a> (which frankly bent over backward to be fair to Fitzgerald, more than she likely deserved):<\/p>\n

“The tobacco-related investments alarmed others. \u201cIt\u2019s astonishing that the director of the Centers for Disease Control, which plays a major role in reducing tobacco use, would purchase stock in a tobacco company,\u201d said William B. Schultz, a former general counsel for H.H.S.”<\/p>\n

Hah, get this. This is what a sleaze this Fitzgerald was. She is supposedly an advocate for fighting childhood obesity,\u00a0 but she once took a $1 million payout from Coca-Cola for her childhood obesity campaign. When sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of childhood obesity.<\/p>\n

From the New York Times overly fair article:<\/p>\n

As the state\u2019s public health chief, Dr. Fitzgerald made fighting childhood obesity one of her highest priorities. But she drew criticism from public health officials for accepting $1 million from Coca-Cola to pay for the effort<\/a>. Her program drew heavily from the soda giant\u2019s playbook, emphasizing Coke\u2019s contention that exercise \u2014 rather than calorie control \u2014 is key to weight loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is no different than Philip Morris financing anti-smoking campaigns, when they spend millions around the world finding ways to get kids hooked to cigarettes.<\/p>\n

Are you kidding me? Not only has this sleaze owned tobacco stock for years and was trading in tobacco stock after she was appointed head of the CDC, she also takes money from Coca-Cola for an anti-obesity program?<\/p>\n

What’s scary is this is pretty outrageous, but at the moment, this barely get a blip on the Trump outrage metre.<\/p>\n

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Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The good news that the acting director of the CDC is well-liked and seems to be good at her job and below the radar for the time being of the Trump Administration’s pro-corporate agenda:<\/p>\n

From a Washington Post article:<\/a><\/p>\n

When the notice finally went out on the CDC\u2019s internal announcement board that the principal deputy director, Anne Schuchat, 58, with nearly three decades of CDC experience, would be taking over (again) as acting director, employees were very<\/em> happy to hear the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes! There is palpable relief that she\u2019s back in charge,\u201d said one analyst who did not want to be identified for obvious reasons. \u201cYou\u2019d have joyous celebration if they made her permanent director.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early Thursday, Schuchat sent a \u201cDear Colleagues\u201d email to staff thanking them for their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an honor to provide leadership for our nation\u2019s premier public health agency, and all of you, in this role. Please know that I take this responsibility very seriously and care tremendously about our continued excellence and strength,\u201d she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, this one really takes the cake. I would say, “even for Trump,” but frankly, no, there doesn’t seem to be a bottom to the Trump sewer. This kind of got buried by all the other never-ending scandals with the Trump Administration, but it’s a pretty good scandal … and pretty typical for a Trump … Continue reading CDC Director resigns over ties to tobacco industry stocks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,887],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-for-disease-control","category-trump","tag-centers-for-disease-control"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CDC-director.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-14Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2123,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2123","url_meta":{"origin":4144,"position":0},"title":"Interview with Centers for Disease Control chief — Tobacco is still the No. 1 health issue in America","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"April 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Really good interview I saw on a site called Vox.com (was not familiar with it) with Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control, about health in America. 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