An exceptionally vicious attack on his own health authorities.

Trump Accuses FDA of Sabotaging Vaccine Trials

This is a viciously crazy attack on his own chosen guy.

This is a new level of destructive attack on the credibility and integrity of the health authorities and researchers who are the best and best informed judges of how to get a safe and effective vaccine, as quickly as they can safely do that.

This is a new and dangerous attack as well on the integrity and credibility of what Republicans used to call "Big Government" but now instead more profoundly demonize as Pubic Enemy Number One, the "Deep State".

This is the Duce, the Champion Liar of White House History, subjecting his party and American politics ever more completely to the truth, science, and government wrecking conspiracy theory mentality.

All of a piece with his welcome of QAnon and his open love affair with the most lunatic of lying right wing fake news sources.

Trump accused the FDA of hindering coronavirus vaccine and drug trials so they would not be developed until after the election.

Trump wrote: "The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics."

Trump uses the term "deep state" to describe those at government agencies he believes are working against his interests.

Trump added: "Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd," he wrote referring to the U.S. election date. "Must focus on speed, and saving lives," he added, tagging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.

Trump's suggestion that that research was being deliberately slowed to hurt him at the ballot box comes amid concerns that his administration might pressure the FDA to authorize a vaccine in time for the election, even if its safety and efficacy were not backed by clinical trials.

Trump has said a vaccine could be approved before November but Hahn has repeatedly said that would only happen if clinical trials proved it to be safe and effective.

FDA research chief Peter Marks also said this week that he would resign if an unsafe vaccine was rushed out, according to Reuters.

"I could not stand by and see something that was unsafe or ineffective that was being put through," Marks said.

At the same time, CNN reports a new report on chloroquine says it should never be used for treatment of the virus at all because it does no good and some cardiac harm, and no further studies on whether it could somehow be used should be done.