Posted on 07/15/2020 1:31:14 PM PDT by caww
Navarro wrote a USA Today op-ed published on Tuesday that argued the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.” The White House immediately distanced itself from Navarro’s piece and said the article didn’t go through the normal clearance process.
“We are all on the same team, including Dr. Fauci. I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Everybody's working on the same line, and we are doing very well.”
“He made a statement representing himself. He shouldn’t be doing that,” Trump said about Navarro’s opinion piece. “No, I have a very good relationship with Anthony.”
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Good cop, bad cop.
He should be doing that. Fauci has been bought more often by big pharma and the deep state than a two bit whore at the rodeo.
Plausible deniability, IMO.
Trump probably had a good laugh later.
If you are in the administration you need to clear stories and op-eds through the White House. That has been the norm for decades.
That strikes me as entirely plausible.
> Good cop, bad cop.
Precisely. Gave me a big grin!
The op ed was good way to put Fauci on notice that he is on a short leash without any news media complaining that Trump is against Fauci.
definitely a warning to the fraud fauci
I suspect he doesn’t care and will continue to push the envelope and hope he gets fired.
Trump, the judge, says “The jury will disregard what Peter Navarro said (wink-wink).” Happy now Tony?
Totally agree. I would have a forensic audit done on Fauci’s finances and connections. It would give the FBI something to do.
‘Trump probably had a good laugh later.’
yes, we’ve all been having good laughs since Trump and Pence allowed Dr. Fauci to set the agenda way back in March...
Trump is way too respectful to the medical community.
I highly doubt that Navarro wrote anything without clearing it with Trump first. This was a shot across Fauci’s bow and Trump wants deniability for political purposes.
Trump wrong again. What is free speech if you can’t exercise it? That is why it was called an opinion piece. He only stated facts. Trump needs to disengage from Fauci.
Another excellent political cartoon by Ben Garrison.
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