Also Pius Pence, Fauci and Brix the scarf lady.
There were huge red flags regarding Fauci. He exaggerated the AIDS epidemic back in the 1980s to keep funding flowing. He should have been fired back then for his over-the-top public announcements, but he wasn’t. Maybe someone decided he meant well and just made a mistake. Even so, he never ever should have been allowed in front of cameras to talk on his own again. I never understood why Trump let that happen. Fifteen minutes of research by Trump advisors would have shown that Fauci was a serial exaggerator. Trump was in a political “damned-if-you-and-damned-you-don’t” situation that I understand. He should have tread more carefully. The thing I’m most irritated about was the poor
communication of the risk. Any technically complex development speeded up increases risks in medical developments exponentially so. The “flags” of those risks were the EUAs, permission to hide “data”, etc. All that was purposely shoved to the back to get people to get vaxxed. Trump was only partially responsible for that, but he did have a responsibility to level the PR field and keep “the risk” out there for people to evaluate and decide on their own.