Sen. Rand Paul criticizes Trump’s inability to dismiss Fauci amid pandemic.

Daily Wire NewsJune 21, 2023

Sen. Rand Paul Criticizes Trump for Keeping Fauci

In a recent interview, former President Donald Trump claimed that he could not fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. However, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) disagrees and argues that even if Trump couldn’t fire Fauci, there was no reason for him to put Fauci in charge of managing the U.S. government’s response to the pandemic.

During an appearance on Fox News, Paul expressed his criticism, stating, “He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around. Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation, it’s Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source. So he should have fired him.”

When asked about Fauci’s potential role in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Paul responded, “It may because Fauci did stick around.”

Paul further explained, “There may be civil service rules about actually firing him, but there’s no reason he had to head up the pandemic committee, the COVID Committee. So he was on the committee. In fact, if not the lead, he was the committee with the vice president. They met all of the time.”

According to Paul, Fauci “pushed out” then-CDC Director Robert Redfield from the committee, who Paul believed was “the one sane voice on the committee.”

Paul also criticized Fauci’s handling of the pandemic, saying, “The one thing that could have saved thousands of lives before the vaccine was that the nurses and the assistants and the people taking care of people in the nursing home, we should have put people in those positions who had already been infected and recovered, knowing that naturally acquired immunity would then protect those senior citizens from getting infected. And we never did that because Fauci kept saying, ‘well, we’re not sure, we’re not sure.’

“Well, immunity, we are pretty certain of,” Paul added. “That’s what vaccines are based on, his naturally acquired immunity from the disease. We try to simulate that with a vaccine. So — but by denying it, I think many lives were cost, and there would have been a better way, I think, under the Trump administration to marginalize and push Fauci out of the spotlight and keep his nonsense and his misinformation from infecting the rest of us.”

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Sen. @RandPaul rips Trump for keeping Fauci around:

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