“Trump did in fact spend a lot of time kissing Fauci’s ass...”
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I think you must be thinking of Pence and DeSantis.
Here’s a link, sorry for it being CNN:
Ron DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci for Covid response in spring 2020 for ‘really doing a good job’
Andrew Kaczynski
By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Updated 6:55 PM EDT, Thu June 1, 2023
Excerpt:
“Though Fauci did help craft the administration’s Covid response, Trump was often critical of Fauci as he attacked his own administration’s pandemic guidelines. Trump began criticizing Fauci early in spring 2020, retweeting calls to fire him in April of that year and in May blasting comments Fauci made against reopening schools. In July 2020, the White House’s deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino, posted a cartoon on Facebook that showed Fauci as a faucet flushing the American economy for his COVID guidance.
In spring 2020, Fauci was provided with around-the-clock security after he began receiving escalating threats after his providing guidance to Trump for the country to remain as locked down as possible to help control the spread of the virus, which to date has claimed more than a million lives in the US.
DeSantis, like Trump, later broke with Fauci over reopening Florida in July 2020, but he didn’t begin regularly harshly criticizing Fauci until spring 2021.
Trump urged reopenings by May 2020 and DeSantis was one of the first to put in place plans to do so – for which Trump praised the Florida governor at an October 2020 rally.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/politics/ron-desantis-fauci-trump-covid-kfile/index.html
The Trump cultist are acting like Blue-Haired SJWs. Shrieking and Hero worshipping. Trump is done, He won’t be President again. Some of you need to get your head out of your rectums. Winning Bufff*ck Country Tennesse or West Virginia will l not win the Presidency. DeSantis will be the nominee, and he’ll end the persecution of Trump. That’s reality, dummies.