This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTrump political appointees tried to silence a longtime top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she stressed the seriousness of the coronavirus, arguing her statements to a medical group contradicted those of top Trump administration officials, including Vice President Pence.In a June 30 email, , one of those appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services, excoriated , CDC principal deputy director, for remarks she made before the group affiliated with one of the nation’s leading...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTrump political appointees tried to silence a longtime top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she stressed the seriousness of the coronavirus, arguing her statements to a medical group contradicted those of top Trump administration officials, including Vice President Pence.In a June 30 email, , one of those appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services, excoriated , CDC principal deputy director, for remarks she made before the group affiliated with one of the nation’s leading...WW…