President Trump, in response to a question from the Washington Blade, said Friday he had nothing to do with the recent Food & Drug Administration decision to ease the ban prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood. “No.
I didn’t know anything about that,” Trump said. “That was done by the FDA, very capable people at the FDA.” Trump made the comments during the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing, which the Blade was able to attend as result of being in the seat rotation for reporters in the White House briefing room.
A spokesperson for the LGBTQ media watchdog GLAAD, which had been pushing on FDA to lift the gay blood ban, said Trump’s response isn’t surprising. “The inclusion of this issue in such a prominent
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