Sooner or later Trump had to have realized that and when he did ...he did nothing to stop it. In fact even after leaving office he pushed the shots.
You can defend Trump all along, but Fauci wasn’t President.
You dissimilate.
Trump did realize that Fauci was disingenuous and that Trump had been lied to.
Trump edged Fauci out of control, added Trump people like Navarro to positions within the COVID response team and in the end banned Fauci from the updates. Pence failed America; he did nothing to uncover the lies & fallacies. I believe he was part of the deception. A snake in sheep’s clothing.
Remember that atmosphere, the fear. For Trump to have abruptly broken with Fauci would have created a panic and instability during a fragile time. Look what the press did when Trump tried to suggest that medical researchers were already using light to kill microbes in difficult spaces such as in the lung periphery. The press gaslight Trump’s words to suggest he wanted people to be injected with bleach.
Trump is neither a scientist nor a physician. Fauci was universally praised by the press & compromised insiders. The deep state kept much information from Trump and fed him lies. Despite the pressing nature of the created scenario and the activities of the deep state/scientific collaborators Trump did indeed suspect and move to neuter Fauci in a relatively short time.
My only regret was that Trump gave the jab pushers some credibility.
IMO Trump’s honor and love of Americans made it difficult for him to grasp the pervasive immorality and evil of the medical, scientific and pharmaceutical communities.