Knew someone who worked with him in the 90's who thought he was deep state.
He had no problem with Obama bringing Ebola cases to the US!
Never trusted him on Covid.
It's more complicated than that. It took forever to close the bathouses because radical leftist gays attacked anyone who pleaded for them to be closed and because the bathouse owners, who were making a fortune, fought the closures tooth and nail.
Concerning the blood banks: It was the blood bank owners and again, radical gays, who were mainly responsible for resisting efforts to ban gay blood donors. The blood bank owners were against having to test each pint of blood for virus markers because it would add significant costs to their bottom line and the radical gays were, of course, calling anyone who suggested gays be banned from donating "homophobes."
Fauci, who could have stepped in and added considerable weight to solving each problem, did not. In addition, Fauci was absolutely ineffective in mobilizing the medical bureaucracy to step up research on the virus and to find treatments against it. He was appointed the director of the NIAID in 1984 and essentially squandered millions that had been directed to him to combat the virus.
A very vocal gay activist, Larry Kramer (who was a good guy), called him out on his bullshit in a scathing, profanity-laced op-ed in a NY gay rag - calling Fauci a liar, a fraud and grossly incompetent. Based on what I've researched and read about the AIDS crisis I agree with Kramer's assessment.
And then there's this: Well after it became widely known in the scientific community that AIDS could not be spread via casual contact, the hapless (or evil) Fauci made a public statement, trumpeted by the media, that it was possible that one could possibly contract AIDS via casual contact. This threw America into a panic. I remember that panic. Fauci, and the evil, fear-mongering press, were solely responsible for it.