Posted on 04/14/2020 2:29:24 PM PDT by rintintin
Anthony Fauci looks to be skating on thin ice with President Trump, despite — or perhaps because of — a growing sense that he is the most trusted expert on the coronavirus crisis.
The White House moved on Monday to squash suggestions that Fauci could be ousted from the president’s task force on the crisis.
And Fauci himself sought to shore up his position during the White House press briefing, when he walked back remarks he had made at the weekend.
During a CNN interview on Sunday, Fauci had suggested that mitigation measures would have been more effective had they been put in place earlier but that there had been “pushback” against them.
After Trump invited Fauci to the lectern within minutes of beginning Monday’s press briefing, the doctor said that his reference to “pushback” was “the wrong choice of words.”
He also said that Trump “went to the mitigation” the first time he was asked to do so.
The remarks came after ominous signs for Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
On Sunday, Trump had retweeted a message that included the words “time to #FireFauci.”
Two Republican lawmakers wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on Saturday asserting that Fauci was guilty of “a special degree of tone deafness” in the way he spoke about the economic toll of the lockdown that has affected the nation.
The lawmakers, Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) and Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.), also wrote that Fauci “can no longer be one of the primary voices in this crisis, especially not after his assertion that the economic effects and devastation from this shutdown are merely inconvenient.”
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As late as Feb 17th...Fauci said....don’t worry about it. There’s about six occasions prior where he said the same thing.
I’ve said it before. President Trump would have to be an imbecile to fire Fauci, and Trump is no imbecile.
He's so full of himself that he can't keep any kind of consistency in his statements.
except EVERY DAY he goes in front of the liberal media and shits all over the plans to open the country
1. Fauci said today that May 1 was too soon to reopen the country and Trump just said it will start to happen sooner.
2. Press conference got started an hour late and when it did Fauci wasn’t there.
3. When asked about Fauci’s remarks Trump muttered “nobody knows what he said”.
Draw your own conclusions.
In all fairness to the little guy, he was asked who he wanted to play him in the movie, and he answered in a joking way “Brad Pitt”. I’m sure he knows he no Brad Pitt in the sexiness department.
falsi is just a plain old deep stater academic with not one lick of common sense or integrity....
To play Fauci:
Don Knotts
Danny DeVito
Lou Costello
Mickey Rooney
...or any other short comedian.
(Yeah, I know...most of them are dead.)
Someone mentioned Martin Short. An inspired choice really.
fauci might have gotten a heads up about who defunding and decided preemptively to leave the reservation?
Ross Perot once chose Richard Crenna to play him in a movie.
would it be improper to use fauci and covid19 team player in the same sentence?
That makes me happy, even if it’s short lived :)
“The nanosecond he gets fired, he’ll be testifying in the House at the next impeachment hearing.”
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He deserves to be indicted for crimes against humanity for the role he played in the suppression of information to the public about the danger of retrovirus vaccine and blood supply contamination.
That sob is a danger to humanity today provable by his afffiliation with Bill Gates who is advocating human population reduction.
...or Wuhan.
1. “MSM/progessives trying to get Trump bonfire Fauci.”
2. “Starboard agrees with progressives.”
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I don’t understand either of these two comments. I have no idea what ‘bonfire’ means or what your point was. As to the second, how is asking Trump to get rid of the self-serving Fauci, who has been undermining his bosses during a national crisis, perceived as siding with progressives? You can’t allow people with their own agendas to infiltrate the inner circle of trust.
Sorry I don’t get anything you’re saying.
Yet Trump won’t dump him.
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I am totally mystified by this. Who allows people who undermine you to remain inside the circle of trust?
Trump seems to have an aversion to firing people, which I find to be ironic. You don’t let termites continue to infest your house; you get rid of them and repair the damage. Whatever the cost.
1. “MSM/progessives trying to get Trump to fire Fauci.”
2. “Starboard agrees with progressives.”
You are out of your mind.
“You are out of your mind.”
I am not the one supporting a progressive cause.
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