That was forty years ago.
Trump was not part of the system, so he wouldn’t have known who was good and who was not. Not one of us would have been able to hire good people, because we aren’t on the inside.
So, you’re going to try and convince me Trump wasn’t aware of the AIDS scare? Somehow, he was just looking the other way in the 1980s and missed it? A 15-minute Internet search would have gotten him all he needed to know on Fauci.
He or his team didn’t do their homework on who these CDC\NIAD, etc. characters were. I would have had full dossiers in front of me before the very first meeting! Particularly when I am dealing with a subject that I only have layman’s knowledge of! He gave me the impression at times was just ‘winging it’ & all could be solved with just the right amount of PR. If the germaphobia claims are correct the subject may have just scared him. He left it all to the ‘government experts’! But didn’t bother to see who his experts actually were! As they saying, goes ‘he e’ffed up, he trusted them!’. He should admit that to himself and move on Above all there is no need to continue to wrap his arms around it and imply it was the greatest national program since the Manhattan Project.
It in many respects was a ‘Damned if you do & damned if you don’t situation’.