Conservatives have been calling for his firing for a long time now, simple because Dr. Fauci bases his opinion about the Covid-19 pandemic on facts rather than Trump’s fiction. And now, Trump seems to be heeding their call.
On Sunday, Trump, who is in damage control mode over the US’s slow response to dealing with the COVID-19, reshared a tweet about firing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and one of the top experts on Trump’s coronavirus task force, who helped tackle the AIDS, Zika, and Ebola epidemics.
The tweet, which was written by Republican DeAnna Lorraine who is running for Congress, said: “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.” Lorraine’s tweet included a hashtag that said: “Time to #FireFauci.”
It’s been about two months since the US’s first cases, and 22,023 have died from the virus and 555,398 have been infected, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
