White House chief of staff doubled down on Trump accusing the FDA of 'deep state conspiracy' to slow coronavirus treatments

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• White House chief of staff Mark Meadows defended President Donald Trump describing the Food and Drug Administration as part of a "deep state" conspiracy that is slowing coronavirus treatment development to affect the November presidential election. 
• Meadows said in a "Fox News Sunday" interview that Trump was "right to call" out the agency in a stroke of "unprecedented action."
• Trump is slated to announce a "breakthrough" coronavirus treatment Sunday evening, which Meadows said on ABC's "This Week" would put the "heat" on the agency, where "there are a number of people that do not see the same sense of urgency as he sees."
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows defended President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated accusation that the Food and Drug Administration is part of a "deep state" conspiracy to hold up the development of a treatment for the novel coronavirus.

Trump took aim at the agency in a tweet on Saturday, where he wrote that the agency was "making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics" and "obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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