I don’t believe that at all. They manipulated him into pushing it, the Dems wanted it 100% When DJT got behind it there went 75% if Republicans falling in line. The mRNA treatment was sitting on a shelf waiting for the plandemic.
There's plenty of interviews of Trump where he claims he did the opposite of everything Fauci said. That includes the warp speed of the vaccines, which Trump claims Fauci told him should take years to fully test, but Trump overruled him. That doesn't sound like manipulation, to me. That sounds like a man on a mission.