Trump appointees protest politicization of the pandemic now — but the GOP has long distorted...

Wednesday morning, the New York Times published an exposé documenting the complaints of two Trump appointees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who witnessed "the White House's slow suffocation of the agency's voice, the meddling in its messages and the siphoning of its budget." It's an important and well-researched piece — but it's hard not to feel bad for the journalist, Noah Weiland, whose hard work will undoubtedly be met with a familar chorus of "no duhs" from liberal readers and "fake news" from conservatives.

It's important to document the atrocities of the Trump era. That said, man, it's frustrating that the whistleblowers in question — Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell, former Republican congressional staffers who were appointed to the CDC before quitting in protest earlier this year — appear to be under the illusion that it was Trump who somehow invented Republican lying about public health care for political ends.