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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:08 PM Jul 2020

Trump better not fire Fauci. WH says several WH officials are concerned

with how much Fauci has been wrong with the whole list of things printed out. Most health experts have been wrong on things like masks, a symptomstic spread, etc. This is an itemized list. Experts say Fauci has been right more often than the politicians. US responce under Trump is more like a failed state's responce. Don't let them scapegoat Fauci. CNN

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
1. I don't think he can fire Fauci. He can remove him from the task force,
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:13 PM
Jul 2020

which doesn't seem to be doing anything anyhow, but since Fauci wasn't a presidential appointee in the first place he's probably protected by Civil Service. Of course, Trump can torment and discredit him like he's done with others, but I don't think he can kick him out of his government job altogether.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
2. Just discrediting him because he's speaking out a bit more
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:13 PM
Jul 2020

Though bolsonaro fired his health minister because the minister was more popular. So you never know.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. I thought shithole can't fire him . . .
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:13 PM
Jul 2020

but they have started discrediting him to force him out.

Hang tight Dr. Fauci, sane people know the truth.

calguy

(5,223 posts)
9. Fauci is probably trying to hang on for another six months
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:36 PM
Jul 2020

He's knows President Biden will listen to him and work with him. The current idiot us like trying to work with a brick wall that's falling on you.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
4. This is a NOVEL virus
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:13 PM
Jul 2020

We have all been basically learning as we go. Well, some of us, anyway. Of course, Trump and his minions just use any perceived mistakes or errors as a reason to dunk on the experts while spreading disinformation and propaganda that has actually made things worse.

brush

(53,475 posts)
6. Who do they think they're fooling but their idiot base?
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:23 PM
Jul 2020

They, trump/the admin, are the ones who have made mistake after mistake on the pandemic response.

I mean who is it who gets together in that WH and brainstorms on strategies to shift the blame to someone else. It was China last week. Now it's Fauci.

It won't work. 130k deaths and counting is on trump and his admin. No one else. We can all see how Europe, Australia and Asia have all gotten up and down their virus curve and flattened it and we're on our second spike with no national plan still because we didn't flatten the first curve.

Most voters are not stupid.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
8. If he does, Fauci should be on tv 24/7 giving briefings that should have happened all along and..
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:28 PM
Jul 2020

Detailing what is wrong with how the U.S. is fighting the virus compared to past threats. Telling the people exactly how tRUMP has caused this extreme failure in the U.S. compared to 'socialized' European countries.

He would go down in history as a hero.

hatrack

(59,442 posts)
11. He can't fire Fauci - Dr. Fauci is civil service, and can only be fired for cause . . .
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 09:03 PM
Jul 2020

. . . . not because Pres. Fulldiaper is having a bad day.

tulipsandroses

(5,094 posts)
12. This is how science and scientist work - You follow the facts - and when study and data
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 09:13 PM
Jul 2020

show where to go, you follow the data

You don't pull things out your ass like trump and this administration. Like its a Hoax, it will go away in the summer, its under control and other bullshit. UGH! November cannot come fast enough.

Kablooie

(18,572 posts)
13. He will and nothing will happen
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 09:25 PM
Jul 2020

Just one more horrific scandal that will be forgotten tomorrow. There are no checks and balances. Trump is free to do anything he wants without any consequences.

Alliepoo

(2,196 posts)
14. Fauci needs to bail now
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 09:58 PM
Jul 2020

And team up with Joe. Start telling it like it is without having to tiptoe around the truth. People long for someone that they can trust-Dr Fauci can still be that person, I think.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
15. He really can't. Not easily. Fauci is Civil Service and is not appointed.
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 10:26 PM
Jul 2020

If he could have he would already be gone.

Plus the Trump campaign must fear him quitting and serving as Biden’s advisor.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
16. He's always looking for someone to blame
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 10:31 PM
Jul 2020

It’s China’s fault!

It’s WHO’s fault!

It’s the Democrats fault!

It’s Fauci’s fault!

It will never end.

He will continue to “take no responsibility at all” and blame anyone he can.

It’s all Donny Dumbfuck’s fault. And we know it.

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