Trump Encouraged Navarro to Attack Fauci

[applegrove]

Trump Encouraged Navarro to Attack Fauci

July 15, 2020 at 2:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 115 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/15/trump-encouraged-navarro-to-attack-fauci/

"SNIP......

Despite attempts to distance the White House from adviser Peter Navarro’s op-ed attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, a Trump administration official told the Los Angeles Times that Navarro had President Trump’s permission to write the column.

Said the official: “Not only was he authorized by Trump, he was encouraged.”

The Atlantic: “Targeting Fauci seems like a tragic misuse of White House time and energy if officials’ aim is to defeat the coronavirus. But Trump appears more concerned with discrediting Fauci.”

.....SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Trump attacks within the USA one more time. When will he attack someone

outside the USA for once?

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. GOP are killing us, on purpose, murder. We sit here, and no I dont have the answer but

republicans are KILLING us, PREVENTING the CDC from having COVID info?

RU FUCKING KIDDING ME


MURDER

WE MUST STOP IT

[Mike 03]

3. Kicking

Because Trump's disavowal of Navarro's essay is getting way more coverage today than THIS important story that refutes it.

[Me.]

4. Of Course He Did

It's his M.O. all over the place

[Walleye]

5. How about an op-ed discrediting Putin? Not gonna happen🤬

[doc03]

6. I don't think any of the crap that comes out

of the Whitehouse isn't approved by Trump. He puts out the order if it backfires he throws someone under the bus.

[gratuitous]

7. Two people, the White House threatens one

On the one hand, we have Dr. Fauci, one of the world's leading epidemiologists, who's been in the public health sector for decades. He's doing his best to get good, reliable, scientific information out to the public to protect themselves during the Covid-19 pandemic.

On the other hand, we have Vladimir Putin, former chief spook of the Soviet Union and current grand pooh-bah of Russia, a nation with long-standing hostility to the United States. He's paying mercenaries in Afghanistan to kill American troops stationed there.

Which one does the White House send Peter Navarro out to threaten?