Once you've lost Politico.....It sure looks like the New York Times got played by the former HHS expert who says his firing was 'retaliation'

It sure looks like the New York Times got played by the former HHS expert who says his firing was 'retaliation':
"Former Department of Health and Human Services vaccine expert Rick Bright says he was sacked this week because he heroically "pressed for rigorous vetting" of the malaria drug touted by President Trump as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, the New York Times reports.
Politico, however, tells a different story. 
Bright’s firing was a long time coming, dating back almost a year.
And not only did Bright praise the White House’s push for the drug that his attorneys now claim he opposed, but he was also instrumental in acquiring it for the Trump administration.
So, whom to believe?
On the one hand, there is the New York Times, whose report is based on a letter authored by Bright, an anonymous source who claims the former HHS official was pressured “to rush access” to hydroxychloroquine, and Bright’s attorneys, who say his firing was "retaliation, plain and simple.”
His attorneys, by the way, are the same ones who represented Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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