We let him off the hook. He is a skilled and brutal bureaucratic insider who relies on his long-time media contacts for assistance. Biden and Fauci are old buddies, having served in DC their entire careers, and having screwed up the response to the swine flu together in 2009 and are going to stick together at least awhile longer.
Biden’s having a hard time just not sticking to his food and various orifice excretions these days. I don’t see much strategizing or defense of Fauci here in his applesauce days.