Posted on 09/14/2023 8:49:59 PM PDT by Reno89519
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him.
“It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just happen out of thin air?” DeSantis said in a radio interview with Jimmy Failla on “FOX Across America.”
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In January 19, 2021, Trump awarded Fauci and 51 other people who served on the Operation Warp Speed task force during the Covid-19 pandemic presidential commendations.
“Give me a break, people need to take responsibility for their actions. They need to they need to own what they did."
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“A commendation of this nature would require presidential sign-off. They go through staff secretary for approval and then the president would need to approve,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was Trump’s White House communications director ... said she can’t say if Trump actually paid attention to what he was approving, “but to claim he had nothing to do with it is patently absurd. It came from the Executive Office of the President.”
Stephanie Grisham, who served as Trump’s White House press secretary and communications director in 2019 and 2020 and then as first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff into 2021, said in a message: “In my experience nothing like that would ever go out w/o his knowing. Esp(ecially) if an announcement was released.”
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“Clearly, Dr. Fauci should have been fired. He caused a lot of damage. And not only was he not fired, Donald Trump gave Fauci a presidential commendation, on January 19, 2021, his last day in office,” DeSantis said at an event in Coralville, Iowa in August. “I think that that was a gut punch.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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It was the whole team
Today, President Donald J. Trump awarded Presidential Commendations to the below individuals in recognition of their exceptional efforts on Operation Warp Speed:
General Mark Milley
Secretary Alex Azar
Jared Kushner
Dr. Moncef Slaoui
General Gustave Perna
Dr. Deborah Birx
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Adam Boehler
Brad Smith
David Norquist
Chuong Huynh
Janssen Kimberly Taylor
David Simon
Rebecca Kurna
Jonathan Seals
Merck Daniel Wolfe
Christopher Houchens
Robert Johnson
Matthew Hepburn
Jason Roos
David Boucher
John Mascola
Barney Graham
Emily Erbelding
Mary Marovich
Richard Gorman
Christy Ventura
Joseph Chapman
Deacon Maddox
Christine Oshansky
Tremel Faison
Mike Angelastro
Carlo De Notaristefani
Anita Patel
Nancy Messonnier
Greg Hand
Meghan Pennini
Marina Kozak
Rachel Overman
Efrain Garcia
Amy Jenkins
Karl Erlandson
Sean O’Neil
Mary Homer
John Redd
Janet Woodcock
Kevin Bugin
Deydre Teyhen
Kimberly Armstrong
Tremel Faison
Mike Angelastro
Carlo De Notaristefani
Fauci was actually PENCE’S guy!! Dead Eye Pence was in CHARGE of the COVID CRAP, and Pence told Trump NOT TO FIRE HIM....put part of the blame on Pence, please!
We’ve gone from “The buck stops here” to “I have no clue where the buck stops.”
You realize this is just CNN reporting and discussing interview conducted elsewhere. It doesn’t change the substance of the discussion and the challenge for Trump.
People already are aware of everything covid. DeSantis was no saint either.
People are also aware and increasingly desperate Meatball is using this to gain ground.
None of this could fool me into voting for a GOPe acolyte like Meatball.
Ron needs to go back to being Governor. He still has over 3 years to do what people voted for him to do. Be Governor of Florida.
Trump was the captain of the ship. He is responsible for every single decision his administration made, just like every other president. I’m so tired of silly, weak excuses for his shortcomings.
Sorry, but these are GROWNUPS and Trump TRUSTED THEM TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS!
You arebeing ridiculously simple in your thinking.
Are your PARENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO?
That is a common fallacy and conflates the many forms of responsibility into one. First the President being one person would not even know all the decisions made by every member of his administration. To function there is a need for delegation. If a decision has creates problems then the next level up would deal with the issue.
It’s many levels up before the President needs to get involved...Paper clips not ordered on time..President at fault....Decision made by staff to give awards to the entire COVID response team rather than slighting some members or creating a scandal....President wrong.../s...The decision didn’t even get to POTUS level. It was right & proper to thank the team for their efforts. Leaving Fauci off the list would have created a scandal and had extensive ramifications which would have distracted from the administrations efforts to get the Country back on track. I’m sure Trump did not sign off on these commendations, they were handled by staff as is done routinely.
Former President Donald Trump has increased his massive lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Republican primary race, a Quinnipiac survey released this week found.
Overall, 62 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners said they would vote for Trump — putting him a full 50 points ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who garnered 12 percent support.
Trump’s 62 percent reflects a five-point increase since August, and DeSantis’s 12 percent reflects a six-point decrease over the same period of time.
Well said
Trump has always known exactly what he was doing. He said so when he ran. Every person in his administration was RINO/deep state. Even Bush nominated a few token conservatives. Trump didn’t even do that.
Since you believe their should be no accountability, you should be a Democrat.
Which POTUS was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished:
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by Obama's Weaponized Agencies?
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