Posted on 03/29/2021 5:17:53 PM PDT by be-baw
President Trump in a Monday statement excoriated Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, both of whom were members of the former president's White House coronavirus task force.
Trump slammed both figures, accusing them of attempting to "reinvent history." He described Birx as "a proven liar" and Fauci as "the king of 'flip-flops.'"
"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. 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 in his statement.
"I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long—they are like a bad habit!" Trump concluded at the end of his statement.
So true!
Maybe he shouldn’t have promoted them every day?
He basically turned over the bully pulpit and with that, his presidency to these clowns
Fauci really never ceases to amaze me.
This bit about the vaccine is over the top. You would think this would be the last biggest whopper he could concoct. Something will come out to even top this one.
Hes 10% correct.
Trump was between a rock and a hard place with Fauci and the scarf lady. They were the medical/virology disease experts. Trump was not. All Trump had was common sense and an intuition. But he could not kick them out of the program and could not go against their recommendations... Thank goodness he did use his common sense and over ride these two microscope worms educational guesses. He was damned if he kept them and damned if he kicked them out. Over educated doctors who have the God Syndrome are a danger to others..... many others.
Too bad Don didn’t immediately fire everyone he legally could.
You may be correct about Trump’s dilemma but he could have and should have diluted their views, their power and their media coverage by appointing the proverbial blue ribbon commission or ‘medical crisis team’ featuring literally the best and brightest.
The media’s ongoing zeal for the Appeal to Authority fallacy would have been satisfied at least temporarily. Birx and Fauci - political hacks first and doctors second - would have had to play along to save face and their ability/plan to sandbag the hated Trump would have been delayed or even denied.
By increasing the number of targets Trump could have confused or frustrated the aim of the media character assassins and their Alinskyite tactics.
Last but not least, progress actually could have been made much earlier and the useless madness of lockdown and masks avoided in part or in whole.
Not a criticism of Trump but his ease and familiarity with the star system in business, entertainment and his own political ascent could have blinded him to the danger of allowing others to luxuriate in the spotlight. Certainly the string of backstabbers he’d experienced to date including Barr should have made him cautious if not paranoid and with good reason.
We don’t need or want national doctors nor government doctors. Medicine is an individual, personalized discipline. ‘Public health’ has been used as a pretext for all sorts of abuses.
So, why didn’t he recognize them as frauds early and discharge or reassign them soon after that?
I think well of Trump on most things but personnel management not so much. He does not seem to be able to identify people who are no good and not loyal and quickly let them move on.
I believe that your assessment is correct. Rush pointed out numerous times that PDJT was stuck with Fauxi and the Scarf Queen.
https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2020-04-03-watch-dr-fauci-in-january-say-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-coronavirus/
Dr Fauci says virus nothing for Americans to Woody about 1/21/2020
It’s not like we can’t check out his past statement
They really think we’re stupid.
7/20/2020 Dr. Deborah Birx, the chief medical officer on the White House’s coronavirus task force, told the Trump administration in April that the virus was not a long-term problem for the US, The New York Times reported Saturday.
And once again Trump is correct
We have some really twisted ‘Frankenstein's’ that are on the taxpayers tab.
I cannot believe the ‘flu’ has been totally conquered and NOT one .amned word as to why and how.
BOOM!!! President Trump mopped the floor with these two petty, bitter bureaucrats—and I’m GLAD Trump made it personal!! That’s what I LOVE about President Trump!!
If Trump hadn’t taken charge with Operation Warp Speed, we wouldn’t have had a vaccine for 3 to 5 years and Facui and Birx would have been perfectly serene with that. We would still be in a major lockdown, kids falling further and further behind in their school work, more and more small businesses going permanently bankrupt, etc. Fauci and Birx didn’t give a d@mn about any of that.
Fauci is a flip-flopping Mussolini, ZERO credibility as far as I’m concerned. I think it’s hilarious that he didn’t want to be in the same room with Dr. Birx.
On the other hand, as soon as the death toll soared, many members would have jumped ship or started leaking private criticism of Trump to the press.
My opinion...
Trump needed to become a self-taught expert on the subject of COVID, stand on the stage alone, and take charge of everything.
As it was, I never had the impression that Trump was in charge of anything related to COVID - until the vaccines suddenly came out, after the election.
Shhh.
The CDC will have us wearing masks and staying 6 feet away from each other forever!
I truly wish I could point to a single person anywhere around Trump that couldn’t honestly be described as a “self-promoter.” If only he had chosen advisors who were anything but that.
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