Whoa—I just realized that some reading this feed may not know that one of the reasons I've been so upset today is that yesterday Trump basically abolished the FDA, as his stooge Azar assumed tyrannical control over the agency, allowing Trump to announce a fake vaccine in October.

Sometimes I get into my own head enough that I assume everyone has read the same news stories I've read. So—in case you haven't—*yes*: for all intents and purposes, Trump abolished FDA self-rule in the midst of the biggest public health emergency in America in the last 100 years.

The moment Trump abolished the FDA as an independent arbiter of science in the midst of a public health emergency, America put its foot on the lowest rungs of *real authoritarian control*. The debate now is over how much authoritarian rule we're under. Welcome to the new America.

That it was Azar asserting tyrannical control over the FDA instead of Trump is *immaterial*. Proof of Corruption establishes that Azar will do *whatever he's told to do* by Trump—he's a cipher, a proxy, a flunky. Trump runs the FDA with an iron fist, now. And he did it unopposed.

So if you *didn't* know that the FDA is, for all intents and purposes, gone now—what we have, instead, is a White House that controls vaccine approval, and will approve whatever Trump says, whenever he says—go back and read all my tweets today and they will make a lot more sense.