Posted on 03/29/2021 4:56:29 PM PDT by conservative98
Former President Donald Trump on Monday attacked Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx after they faulted his management of the COVID-19 response.
The prominent members of Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force said in a CNN special that Trump imperiled the public — but in his rebuttal, Trump accused them of shifting blame.
Trump included jabs at Fauci’s botched opening pitch at a baseball game in July and Birx’s controversy involving a seemingly hypocritical Thanksgiving trip.
“Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned,” Trump said in the emailed statement.
“They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk.”
Trump said that his administration developed vaccines “in record time, nine months, which is saving the entire world” and that Fauci is “the king of ‘flip-flops’ and moving the goalposts to make himself look as good as possible.”
“In a fake interview last night on CNN, Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn’t throw a baseball even close to home plate, it was a ‘roller,’ tried to take credit for the vaccine, when in fact he said it would take three to five years, and probably longer, to have it approved. Dr. Fauci was incapable of pressing the FDA to move it through faster. I was the one to get it done, and even the fake news media knows and reports this,” Trump said.
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“He fought me so hard because he wanted to keep our country open to countries like China. I closed it against his strong recommendation, which saved many lives. Dr. Fauci also said we didn’t need to wear masks, then a few months later he said we needed to wear masks, and now, two or three of them. Fauci spent U.S. money on the Wuhan lab in China—and we now know how that worked out,” Trump said.
Trump said Fauci and Birx “moved far too slowly, and if it were up to them we’d currently be locked in our basements as our country suffered through a financial depression. Families, and children in particular, would be suffering the mental strains of this disaster like never before.”
In his interview, Fauci appeared to claim credit for vaccine development and criticized Trump for tweeting in April 2020 that states should be “liberated” from draconian COVID-19 lockdowns — saying “that hit me like a punch to the chest.” Birx said that after the first 100,000 US deaths from the virus, “all of the rest … could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.” States have reported about 550,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Birx also said she and Trump had a “very uncomfortable” call after she warned about the pandemic’s severity on TV.
Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday offered a preliminary pro-Trump pushback, calling the doctors’ accounts “revisionist” and “disingenuous.”
“I can tell you about the ‘uncomfortable’ phone call. It had nothing to do with any of that,” Meadows retorted. “It had to do with the fact that Deborah Birx started talking about keeping schools closed and remote learning. And that was what it was all about because that was not based on science.”
I’m disappointed to see Deborah Birx do that. Thought better of her but guess I was wrong.
Message to the Masses: Never again listen to a b!tch wearing a $6,000 scarf while telling you how she’s going to run your life.
Well, they should have been fired Day 1. So much worrying about “optics” from the RINOs and Deep State surrounding President Trump. Trump should have had a security guy with a taser on hand to tase anyone who said the word “optics” in his presence.
Her daughter works for Bill and Melinda Gates.
Her name is Laura Birx.
In the very beginning I thought Fauci was a good guy, even my sister thought so, now she cant even stand to look at him..Fauci is a prick who loves power..he visited that same Wuhan lab, I wonder what he did over there
Further, it was his pathetically run agency at the NIH that funded gain of function research, which was ALWAYS a bad idea. If politics is Hollywood for people who aren't attractive, academics and government science offer a chance of fame and stature for the uncreative.
THIS.
Seriously, a constructive criticism I have of Trump is that some of his hires were terrible, and he didn’t fire them nearly fast enough. Chris Wray is another example. The good news is we know where the cracks in the system are, so hoping someone like Desantis in 2024 can come in with Trump style policies, but better execution.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Trump on basically 90%, but he should have fired Fauci, and should have kept the Surgeon General in the forefront who CORRECTLY said that obesity is a problem.
President Trump summed it up very well! In the end one resigned and Fauci is only kept on by Biden and Company because he trashes President Trump constantly and now claims credit of course like Biden.
Right from the starting gate watching those two come out from behind Trump, I didn’t trust them. I thought what is Trump doing with these politically correct pandemic promoters?
That it was drummed up by China and the globalists to prevent his 2nd term, because they knew Trump was going to open a can on their butts.
You mean to tell me that a pandemic miraculously forms and just like that everybody is wearing masks and businesses are shutting down? Riiiiighhhht. And the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale at $2.99 + tax.
Fauci et al are just the visible part of a huge iceberg of incompetence in our health system that was exposed by the pandemic.
heartwarming.
seriously? I knew she (and farci) were losers from the get go.
A relative of mine did as well before taking a new job for Soros. She was one of the first cases with the virus and traveled across the country while sick early on. I wonder how she was exposed while working for Gates.
BTTT
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