When you appoint someone, you don’t know them intimately well.
This guy appeared to have the credentials.
He turned into a glory hound, and the media exploited him.
It happens.
Your implication is that Trump should have known better than to appoint him.
How would he be able to predict this outcome?
Trump should have known enough to fire him once he became a willing pawn of the media. Fauci practiced politics - not medicine. Fauci himself, in a moment of candor, said he was being used by the media to hurt the President, but he (like so many others) eventually embraced it.
There was a pattern during the Trump administration played with great effect by the swamp and their media minions with both his appointments and the professional bureaucrat class.
How many times did this story play out? All the predictions of calamity if Trump fired this guy or that gal so instead they were left in place undermining their boss at every turn while the majority of Trump’s advisors cautioned him against firing them or sidelining them.
McConnell and the democrat/media complex had a stranglehold on personnel, career civil servants and appointees, during the Trump administration.
It did not work out well in many cases.
The problem with Fauci is he is one of those perpetual bureaucratic barnacles who persist across administrations. He might even be SES (Senior Executive Service) which means he’s basically part of the power structure that executes much of federal government policy in his area.
I’m sure it’s next to impossible to get rid of people at that level. The best you could probably do is sequester them in a meeting room, and pick a different spokesman to be the media face.
Of course it wouldn’t have stopped the media from finding him and putting him on talk shows to get his “view”.
How many more lives would have been lost with Hillary as POTUS and not vaccine in sight today? Obama was lucky that COVID-19 did not emerge during his regime.
Dem and RINO Presidents are not expected to limit deaths to some theoretical minimum.