{"id":1096436,"date":"2021-12-07T21:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096436"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:58:38","slug":"exclusive-mark-meadows-firing-fauci-right-before-nov-3rd-election-would-send-message-were-not-taking-science-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mark-meadows-firing-fauci-right-before-nov-3rd-election-would-send-message-were-not-taking-science-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014Mark Meadows: Firing Fauci Right Before Nov. 3rd Election Would Send Message We&#039;re Not Taking Science Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-mark-meadows-firing-fauci-right-before-nov-3rd-election-would-send-message-were-not-taking-science-seriously%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/meadows-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff and author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chiefs-Chief-Mark-Meadows\/dp\/1737478528?tag=breitbart035-20\"><\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;said on Tuesday\u2019s edition of the <em>Breitbart Daily News<\/em> podcast with host Alex Marlow that Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn\u2019t fired by the Trump administration due to concerns over how such a termination would be framed by news media and perceived by the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Marlow asked why Fauci, who was director of the NIAID during former President Donald Trump\u2019s tenure, wasn\u2019t terminated from his position.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meadows said, \u201ca lot of discussions\u201d took place in the White House considering firing Fauci.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere were lot of discussions early on \u2014 and even later on \u2014 in terms of asking Dr. Fauci to use his talents elsewhere, primarily because he would go on TV and say things that either had not been discussed in the [COVID-19] task force or were opposite of what we had recommended,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hiring of Dr. Scott Atlas as a special coronavirus adviser to Trump was partly a response to the former president\u2019s dissatisfaction with Fauci\u2019s conduct as NIAID director, Meadows stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was made \u2014 and in spite of a few people recommending that he\u2019d be terminated \u2014 to let [Anthony Fauci] stay on,\u201d he remarked. \u201cThat\u2019s when Dr. Scott Atlas was brought in to provide a different perspective, and \u2026 that\u2019s kind of the way the president makes decisions, even with people he disagrees with, letting them make decisions, letting them come in to actually give their opinion, and then trying to discern the truth out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meadows said the decision against firing Fauci was made due to fear of that such a termination \u201cwould send the wrong message\u201d to the public about the administration\u2019s strategy to address the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Anthony Fauci] obviously had some allies within the West Wing,\u201d he stated. \u201cAt the end of the day, I think there was a decision that \u2014 [given] his background with NIH and his insight \u2014 firing him right before a November 3rd election perhaps would send the wrong message that we\u2019re not taking science seriously, which there was nothing further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on, \u201cWe wanted science to dictate our decisions, but also, understand that freedom and liberty [were] something that needed to be preserved. The lockdowns [and] \u201915 days to slow the spread\u2019 was very problematic, because we\u2019re still in partial lockdowns across some of the country. [We were] balancing those out and&nbsp;trying to make sure that we didn\u2019t make Dr. Fauci the issue as much as we made the policy the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cIn retrospect, having Dr. Fauci have less of a role would have been more appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Breitbart News Daily&nbsp;<\/em>podcast is&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">available<\/a>&nbsp;for listening and download via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff and author of\u00a0,\u00a0said on Tuesday\u2019s edition of the Breitbart Daily News podcast with host Alex Marlow that Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn\u2019t fired &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}