{"id":2642811,"date":"2026-08-10T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-margaret-brennan-furious-when-trumps-nih-director-exposes-the-real-motivation-behind-her-vaccine-hissy-fit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:59:15","slug":"watch-margaret-brennan-furious-when-trumps-nih-director-exposes-the-real-motivation-behind-her-vaccine-hissy-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-margaret-brennan-furious-when-trumps-nih-director-exposes-the-real-motivation-behind-her-vaccine-hissy-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Margaret Brennan Furious When Trump&#8217;s NIH Director Exposes the Real Motivation Behind Her Vaccine Hissy Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-margaret-brennan-furious-when-trumps-nih-director-exposes-the-real-motivation-behind-her-vaccine-hissy-fit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2642811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article features an interview between CBS host Margaret brennan and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, centered on COVID-19 misinformation and public trust. Brennan attempts to link pandemic-related violence and misinformation to the Trump management, citing an incident involving a shooter motivated by vaccine misinformation. Bhattacharya defends the Biden administration&#8217;s role, highlighting vaccine mandates, censorship practices, and public distrust stemming from government actions during the pandemic. He emphasizes that misinformation and public skepticism were amplified by policies such as school closures and vaccine mandates, which he argues caused harm and eroded trust. Bhattacharya also points out that efforts to censor and control information during COVID-19-by social media platforms and government agencies-contributed to the current distrust among the public. The interview is criticized by some commentators as biased and manipulative, with accusations that Brennan exhibits partisan bias and downplays the government&#8217;s role in spreading misinformation during the pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya was not having it when CBS \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan tried to pin COVID misinformation on the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>She used the incident last summer of 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White opening fire at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alert-shooting-cdc-gunman-now-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> in Atlanta, and killing police officer David Rose before taking his own life, to bash the Trump administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shooter was motivated by misinformation about the COVID vaccine. That is why he shot over 100 bullets into the windows of the CDC. Is enough being done to counter this kind of misinformation?\u201d Brennan asked Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cHis father said he was brainwashed about the COVID vaccine and thought it was making him suicidal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, it should be noted that the Biden administration was the one pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/official-every-single-one-bidens-covid-vaccine-mandates-blocked-nationwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID vaccine mandates<\/a>. President Joe Biden himself got upset at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-zuckerberg-reveals-extreme-tactics-biden-admin-used-censor-facebook-included-screaming-cursing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, saying it was not doing enough to squelch dissenting views on the efficacy of the vaccine, accusing the company and others of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/19\/biden-facebook-vaccine-misinformation-500148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing people<\/a>\u201d through allowing \u201cmisinformation\u201d on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya responded to Brennan, saying, \u201cThe key thing is, there\u2019s a loss of public trust in public health that happened in part because of \u2014 frankly even on this network and on other networks, there was a particular single point of view put across during the COVID pandemic about, you know, that led to things that really did cause harm to people. The school closures are probably the number one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brennan interjected, \u201cThis is not a productive line of claims. We covered COVID in depth on this program, like no other Sunday show did.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NIHDirector_Jay?\">@NIHDirector_Jay<\/a>: The kinds of decisions, and the face of public health during the pandemic led to many people losing trust in public health.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan: The Trump Administration.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NIHDirector_Jay?\">@NIHDirector_Jay<\/a>: No, I mean like Biden. Just so we\u2019re clear, the Biden Administration censored ME. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TAK9LhkkP0\">pic.twitter.com\/TAK9LhkkP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2086503520283304164?\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya reasserted, \u201cThe kinds of decisions and sort of the face of public health during the pandemic led to many people losing trust in public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration officials?\u201d Brennan asked facetiously, since the COVID vaccine and mandates came into play during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I mean like Biden,\u201d Bhattacharya made clear.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan countered that COVID began under the Trump administration, and said \u201cwe put those officials on our air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to be clear, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bhattacharya-just-confirmed-nih-director-banned-twitter-covid-truth-telling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censored me<\/a>,\u201d the doctor and former Stanford University medical school professor shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople lost their jobs, Margaret, because the Biden administration censored people and said, \u2018Look, you can\u2019t even talk about the COVID vaccine harms,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-zuckerberg-reveals-extreme-tactics-biden-admin-used-censor-facebook-included-screaming-cursing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast to discuss the pressure Biden officials exerted on his company to censor \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg reveals that officials in the Biden admin called his team at Meta to \u201cscream and curse\u201d at them to take down certain posts during COVID.<\/p>\n<p>One of the posts was this meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV with the caption, \u201cDid you or a loved one take\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fhpMlXpztN\">pic.twitter.com\/fhpMlXpztN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1877802159527391374?\">January 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The administration was also pressuring Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>, and its subsidiary YouTube to censor non-official views. YouTube deplatformed thousands of people, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/google-admits-censorship-under-biden-promises-end-bans-youtube-accounts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Judiciary Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/meeting\/house\/118565\/documents\/HHRG-119-JU00-20250903-SD026-U26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> in September 2023 that Biden administration officials from the CDC and FBI \u201cunconstitutionally\u201d coerced and encouraged all of the major social media platforms to take down information the government deemed false.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan next held up a piece of paper saying RFK Jr. called the COVID vaccine \u201cdeadliest\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org\/fact-checking-presidential-candidate-robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-vaccines-autism-and-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ever made<\/a> in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is misinformation, and we\u2019re not being clear about that, and I think that is dangerous,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya replied, \u201cYeah, and I\u2019m talking about why we have the kind of distrust that\u2019s led to the kind of problems you were talking about earlier in public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat distrust was not caused by President Trump. It wasn\u2019t caused by Bobby. It was caused by a lot of sort of misinformation, often spread by the government itself, regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/maher-hammers-liberal-media-burying-facts-natural-immunity-good-better-vaccine-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural immunity<\/a>, closure of schools, mask mandates. People lost their jobs because of these vaccine mandates that didn\u2019t make any public health sense,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo if you want to talk about public trust, you have to embrace that fully, right? You can\u2019t just talk about it in a narrow political way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re talking about is you\u2019re trying to blame the shooting on Bobby,\u201d Bhattacharya concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Outkick\u2019s Ian Miller responded to the interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ianmSC\/status\/2086559638238146644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting<\/a> on social media, \u201cThe good thing about Margaret Brennan is that she\u2019s not even pretending to be unbiased anymore, it\u2019s just openly attacking anyone who isn\u2019t on the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s John Bickley <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jtbickley\/status\/2086824554031165898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cA shameful, manipulative &#038; unprofessional interview by Margaret Brennan here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/confused-rubio-slaps-margaret-brennans-absurd-venezuela-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brennan<\/a> clearly is so caught up in her left-wing point of view that she\u2019s not willing to entertain the idea that the Biden administration was responsible for misinformation during COVID, hence Americans\u2019 lack of trust in public health now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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