Fauci: 'When I publicly disagreed with Trump he let terrible things happen'

What a sewer turd this guy is

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It is not easy to secure an interview with Anthony Fauci, America’s foremost infectious disease expert, amid the worst pandemic in a century.

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Uh bullshite! This guy loves the fame this has brought him.

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He appears surprisingly relaxed given his immense responsibilities at this time of crisis, but then it takes a lot to faze Dr Fauci.

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Jesus...

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Most recently, during almost all of 2020, he watched in horror as President Trump actively undermined his own government’s battle against the Covid-19 pandemic by holding mass rallies, mocking mask wearers, promoting quack remedies and encouraging his supporters to breach lockdowns.

Fauci does not consider this characterisation of Trump’s conduct unfair. ‘No, no, no,’ he says. ‘Unfortunately it’s the truth.’

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Fauci’s challenge was to correct the president’s dangerous falsehoods as diplomatically as possible, often while sharing the stage with him at televised White House briefings, but he says that ‘when it became clear that in order to maintain my integrity and to get the right message [across] I had to publicly disagree with him, he did things – or allowed things to happen – that were terrible.

‘Like he allowed Peter Navarro [Trump’s trade adviser] to write an editorial in USA Today saying that almost everything I’ve ever said was wrong. He allowed the communications department of the White House to send out a list to all of the media, all of the networks, all of the cables, all of the print press, about all of the mistakes I’ve made, which was absolute nonsense because there were no mistakes.’

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Fauci makes no mistakes, guys. He is that GD perfect.

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Liberated under President Biden, Fauci can now speak frankly in a way he couldn’t last year. He tells me that in the final two months of his presidency Trump almost completely abandoned his duty to protect the nation from the pandemic. ‘We [the scientists] were trying, but we were acting almost alone, in the sense of without any direction.’

By the time Biden took office, the pandemic was raging out of control. ‘Oh my goodness, it was,’ Fauci says. ‘When President Biden walked into the White House we were having 300,000 to 400,000 cases per day, 4,000 deaths per day, and our hospitals were on the brink of being overrun.’

Seeing so much sickness and death, and knowing that much of it could have been avoided, was ‘very difficult’, he says, especially ‘when your main job is to save lives and alleviate suffering, and you see some of the things going on around you that are not only not alleviating suffering but are making things worse’.

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Joe Biden is the hero. Not the President that cut BS Government red tape and got multiple vaccines in under a year even with everyone fighting against him.

And this is long but in short...Trump bad, Fauci is Superman

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According to Peter Staley, an original ACT UP leader, who has remained close to Fauci, the chief medical adviser’s strategy last year was to ‘stay in the room’ as long as he could to try to limit the damage – even if that meant biting his tongue as Trump spouted lies and absurdities at his rambling daily press conferences.

At different times the president called Covid-19 a ‘Democratic hoax’, claimed the virus would magically disappear, and recommended bleach and hydroxychloroquine as cures. A colleague of Fauci’s who asked to remain anonymous recalls him complaining in private: ‘You’ve no idea what sort of bulls— I have to deal with every day.’

Staley reckons Fauci managed to remain influential until late April or early May last year, and probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives by persuading Trump to support state lockdowns, keep them in place beyond last Easter, and accelerate the search for a vaccine. The turning point came around the time in April that Trump started to side with anti-lockdown protesters, tweeting that Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia should be ‘liberated’ from the stay-at-home orders issued by those states’ Democratic governors.

Fauci calls that a fair summary. He says he remained on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and continued to work with Vice President Mike Pence, who ‘really tried his very best to address the outbreak’ while remaining loyal to Trump. ‘But my influence with [the president] diminished when he decided to essentially act like there was no outbreak and focus on re-election and opening the economy… That’s when he said, “It’s going to go away, it’s magical, don’t worry about it.”’ Thereafter ‘my direct influence on him was negligible. It became more conflictual than productive.’

‘Conflictual’ was an understatement. Fauci became, in his own words, ‘the skunk at the picnic’. Behind the scenes, White House officials pressed him to be more upbeat in his pronouncements, and to stop contradicting the president. By the summer he had largely been barred from White House briefings, giving television interviews or testifying before Congress. Moreover, Trump had begun openly to denigrate him.

‘People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots,’ he declared. ‘He’s been here 500 years,’ he complained. ‘Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him we would have 500,000 deaths,’ he said last October. He even mocked Fauci for throwing ‘perhaps the worst pitch in the history of baseball’ at the Washington Nationals’ opening game last July.

But despite the president’s antagonism, Fauci – calm, authoritative and reassuring – enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress and remained a hero to millions of Americans. His face appeared on coffee mugs and T-shirts. Brad Pitt played him on Saturday Night Live. Bumper stickers proclaimed in fauci we trust. Washington, DC’s mayor designated last Christmas Eve to be ‘Dr Anthony S Fauci Day’ in honour of his 80th birthday. Opinion polls routinely showed two-thirds of Americans trusted him, compared to barely a quarter who trusted the president. ‘He’s got this high approval rating, so why don’t I have a high approval rating… with respect to the virus?’ Trump complained. ‘Nobody likes me. It can only be my personality.’

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