Keep Dr. Fauci

 From The Hill:

“Trump shares tweet from supporter calling for Fauci to be fired"

President Trump on Sunday reposted a tweet from a supporter who called for Anthony Fauci, a top member of the White House coronavirus task force, to be fired. Former congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine in her tweet accused Fauci of reversing his position on the danger posed by the coronavirus, writing that Fauci claimed the virus "posed no threat to the US public at large" on February 29. "Time to #FireFauci," Lorraine added. Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could've saved more lives.  Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.  Trump retweeted the message Sunday evening, along with a message taking aim at the "Fake News." It was one of many tweets from the president on Sunday lashing out at the media over its coverage of his administration's coronavirus response. "Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN," he tweeted, adding praise for the right-wing news network One America News Network. A request for comment from the White House was not immediately returned. Trump's retweet of Lorraine's message comes after Fauci appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning, in which he was asked by host Jake Tapper if restrictive measures put in place earlier by the government would have saved more lives amid the pandemic. "I mean, obviously, you could logically say, that if you had a process that was ongoing, and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives," Fauci said. "Obviously, no one is going to deny that." Fauci himself has urged journalists in the past to stop "pitting" him against the president in the press. "That is really unfortunate. I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences," Fauci said in March. "There really fundamentally at the core ... are not differences."  "The president has listened to what I have said and what the other people on the task force have said. When I have made recommendations he has taken them," he added. "The idea of just pitting one against the other is just not helpful." Lorraine ran for Congress earlier this year for the seat currently held by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), but was defeated in the state's open primary last month.

^ At this point it is fairly obvious that Trump did know about Covid-19 long before he acted on anything. What is also obvious is that the American people trust Dr. Fauci a lot more than they do Trump – especially with the deadly pandemic still on-going. I know Trump has a God-complex and doesn’t like to be shown as weak or wrong – even when shown videos with him saying the opposite than he currently is – but in this case he is clearly in the wrong. He could have, and should have, done a lot more in December 2019, in January 2020 and in February 2020 to prepare the country and save lives. He shrugged it off for all those months and then was playing catch-up starting in March. The result is that the United States now has the most number of Covid-19 infected in the world as well as the most number of Covid-19 dead in the world. He will never admit he is wrong-  he never does – but to try and use Dr. Fauci as a scapegoat so he can save his own political skin will have the opposite effect. If Trump fires Dr. Fauci I don’t believe the American people will take it sitting-down (as we tend to whenever he fires all his countless advisors in the past.) We don’t really care about the other advisors, but the leading Doctor and an expert in viruses as Dr. Fauci is is more important to everyday Americans during this deadly pandemic than any other advisor or even Trump himself. ^

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492450-trump-retweets-supporter-calling-for-fauci-to-be-fired