Trump Retweets Post Calling for Faucis Dismissal
President Donald Trump retweeted a message Sunday that defended his handling of the COVID-19 outbrea..
President Donald Trump retweeted a message Sunday that defended his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and called for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, to be fired.
Trumps reaction was to a tweet by former Congressional Candidate DeAnna Lorraine:
“Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he couldve saved more lives,” Lorraines tweet reads. “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.”
“Time to #FireFauci…” she added.
Lorraine seemed to be referring to a Feb. 29 interview Fauci gave on NBCs “Today” show when he was asked by a reporter whether Americans should be changing their habits in the face of the COVID-19 threat.
“No. Right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything that youre doing on a day-by-day basis,” Fauci replied, adding, “right now, the risk is still low. But this could change.”
Fauci then added in the interview that although the risk was low at the time, it could spike when community spread was observed, saying that this could “force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, has spread aggressively across the United States, with a Johns Hopkins tally noting over 557,000 infections across America.
The number of fatalities attributed to COVID-19 in the United States stands at over 22,000 as of April 13.
On Sunday, Fauci was asked on CNN if earlier action on social distancing and “stay at home” policies could have saved lives. He responded in part: “Its very difficult to go back and say that. 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. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated.”
Trump, in his retweet of Lorraines message, wrote that he responded early to the threat of the outbreak by banning travel from China, the source of the virus.
“Sorry Fake News, its all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up,” the president wrote.
Trump later posted another tweet: “I was criticized for moving too fast when I iRead More – Source
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