BRIAHNA JOY GRAY: "There's a special place in hell for people who would use the sick and elderly to extract money from the government. Apparently, they also have a special place in the Biden Administration." New WH Chief Of Staff choice angers BOTH conservatives AND progressives

        

"And if it wasnt already clear that Joe Biden’s allegiance to the health care and pharmaceutical industry is stronger than his commitment to the people he was elected to protect, this choice of consigliere speaks VOLUMES. Zients has the largest net worth of any Biden administration official... he has appointed a pharmaceutical fraudster to be his right hand man -- in one of the most flagrant shows of fidelity to Big Pharma you can imagine. And one of the worst parts -- the mainstream media will treat this betrayal as less important than some classified documents..."

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