Posted on 12/19/2021 8:08:46 AM PST by Enlightened1
Trump: "I didn’t... because if you fire him [Fauci] you're going to have a firestorm on the Left."
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472596894568402944
No question about it.
Trump: “I Didn’t... Because If You Fire Him [Fauci] You’re Going To Have A Firestorm On The Left.”
A reasonable political calculation made during an election year. Err on the side of caution. Recall that Trump made a very good call when he delegated Covid restrictions to the governors. Red states did well. Blue states poorly.
Trump was surrounded by saboteurs in his own admin. For the most part, he limited the damage done by f face Fauci and Byrd. I wish he made a greater effort to get therapeutics to market though.
Trump clearly foresaw the election mail in fraud that, despite winning a land slide victory, forced him from office. There was a gigantic conspiracy arrayed against him. Not to mention Zuckerberg hired the rats who stuffed the ballot boxes and counted the votes.
Donald Trump has many virtues. And perhaps the most important one is that he always puts America first. Always. Trump is a bulldog in that regard. But he has two glaring weaknesses. He often put bad people in important positions, as was noted elsewhere on this thread.
And he often talked like Patton when he should have been talking like Eisenhower (a great president - like Reagan - must know when to switch between the two). So yeah, The Donald has a few things to work on, as we all do.
And where’s the comparable firestorm from the Right in response to the Fawchee, Birx, Collins, Redfield, Wallensky, WHO, CDC, and NIH genocide and jab injuries?
The cabal has gotten their way with us, with much more sting to come. How do we respond?
God tells us vengeance is His. Looking to eternal life is so much more important than what we may suffer here. True.
Are we no longer allowed and charged to tend the Garden He gave our ancestors?
There is a well known military adage, that you should *never* cede *any* advantage to the enemy, that can be denied them.
This advice is quintupled when the enemy is supposedly “on your side”. A lesson that President Trump must embrace.
In recent times, fools have said things like, “Don’t attack terrorists, or you’ll *make them angry*.” Truly awful advice.
The left, liberals, Democrats, socialists, communists, fascists, etc. deserve NO grace. Don’t ever worry about making them angry, because they are *always* angry. And they will never give you grace or quarter.
So this is the profound advice for President Trump’s second term: FIRE THEIR ASSES.
The federal government has been bloated with ideologues, traitors, lackwits, cronies, the corrupt, the tainted, the partisan. It has become the enemy of the people.
And it will be President Trump’s job to “purge them in their millions” (well, really, hundreds of thousands).
Because *they* and all other leftists, are America’s enemies, enemies of the people of America.
And it will be your Herculean task to clean that Aegean stables.
This is true.
And I get tired of people arguing that we need to re-elect Trump so he can enact his revenge. He didn't take action the first time he was president. Why do people think the second time will be any different?
No thanks. I'm looking elsewhere. We can have MAGA without Donald Trump. In fact, it would probably be stronger with a younger, more disciplined and focused candidate at the helm.
You forgot to add a sarcasm tag.
Sorry FReepers, Trump is a no go for me. He'll be 78 in 2024...haven't we learned our lesson on aged politicians? I voted for Trump last time around, my first choice for 2024 is Desantis.
Reagan turned 70 the month after he took office, as a comparison.
The left weren’t concerned with firestorms when they impeached Trump over bogus charges. You’re bigger than that Mr President. It’s still not too late to exert your influence.
Trump could've preemptively pardoned all of these people before he left office. There was precedent when Carter issued a blanket pardon to all the draft dodgers, many of whom had yet to be charged and now wouldn't be. Trump pardoned Steve Bannon who had not yet been tried or convicted.
But he did nothing.
He took care of Kwame Kilpatrick, Rod Blagojevich, and a whole slew of Wall Street crooks though.
Re: 2024 - I believe that 2024 is President Trump’s race by default.
I hope Ron DeSantis runs. I believe he has done a capable job in Florida, and has been a good spokesman for how to govern in the face of adversity.
It wasn’t that Trump didn’t fire that A-hole; it was that at every one of those stupid, daily covid pressers, he heaped unending praise on Fauci as a great doctor and scientist! Trump helped establish Fauci’s credentials! I remember thinking to myself, “what the Hell is Trump doing?!”
Correction - That 2024 is NOT President Trump’s race by default.
Your blood pressure will rise while reading RFK Jr’s book. Parts of it read like an indictment or a filing for a civil suit and parts of it read like a primer in absolute corruption.
It is sickening.
For those on this thread who are bashing Trump for not firing Fauci I would respectfully state the following.....
It would have been an instant impeachment. Have people really forgotten how the left blamed Trump for Covid in the lead up to the election?
Fauci is burrowed into the public health world AND corporate academia and research in the US like a tick. He controls tens of billions of dollars to these institutions so to them he is Uncle Sugar. They would have screamed like witches being burned at the stake.
On top of that, he is protected by big pharma. Big money interests who give big money to politicians in both parties. They would have protested loudly. They are one of the largest lobbying interest in the world. You would have had massive criticism from republicrats for the move.
The left was using Covid to not only change the election but to damage Trump. He would have played right into it so we would have never known he was right.
In an ideal world he would be fired. Frankly, after reading RFK Jr’s book he should have been gone long before on the merits, but Presidents have to pick and choose their battles. With the benefit of hindsight I think all of us now clearly see that we would have been better going down a different path than the one directed by Fauci (to benefit himself) but we did not know that then.
Trump is right..... it would have been beyond a firestorm in the run-up to the election. Fauci would have been a huge thorn in his side on television just as much if not more and most health bureaucracies in states would have still listened to him.
The democrats would have paraded an endless line of men in white coats during the impeachment hearing to talk about how the President had crippled public health and gotten rid of a much-loved and respected figure at the cost of American lives.
Surely those of you criticizing Trump can see this.
For the record - I think Fauci should be charged with crimes. That is my .02. However, Trump needed to win an election first and that was his priority.
Fauci is to public health and research grants what J Edgar was to the FBI. There is a reason that we should never keep bureaucrats in place for decades. J Edgar has always been example 1 and Fauci is now example 2 for me. When you are a bureaucrat who controls that much money dispersed to that many people all to further big pharma you have a tremendous amount of power in DC.
"After the fair trial", mind you.
Let’s hope he does better in 2024.
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To this day, Trump has not publicly denounced president mashed potatoes vaccine mandate over private businesses with 100+ employees. How long ago was Biden’s mandate announced? I believe it was September 9th. Shameful.
Tragically Trump is not the one.
Until we solidify election integrity, we will never have a true conservative for President.
If we do remedy the election process, I am all in for Ron DeSantis. Trump plays too much on the Left for my tastes.
Fauci has been the government bureaucrat in charge for decades, Deep State Deep Roots.
It would be great to know then what we know now. If you’re in charge, and someone with medical credentials says “Ebola is Coming”, what are you going to do? It is easy to criticize now, we know much more to the story.
I was on board with “ Flatten the curve” two weeks , and then everything got out of our own control.
Trump would have had to be Jesus the Savior. Trump is many things, but he aint Jesus.
Trump is good on popularity. A competitor will need a share of that.
Firing Fauci would have given every politician and “journalist” an excuse to blame Trump 24/7 for Covid not being instantly cured at zero cost, stubbed toes, and the common cold. Surely everything would have been perfect if only Fauci hadn’t been fired. So Trump had few options with Fauci — fire him and be the scapegoat; keep him and deserve to be. The only good move I can think of would have been to “promote” Fauci to a job where he could be isolated and do less harm.
Trump just needed to be the Trump he was on the campaign trail in 2016, not the Trump he became after entering the White House a year later.
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