{"id":1973640,"date":"2023-07-14T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-if-he-had-been-president-in-2020-fauci-would-have-been-fired\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T01:21:27","slug":"desantis-says-if-he-had-been-president-in-2020-fauci-would-have-been-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-if-he-had-been-president-in-2020-fauci-would-have-been-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis: Fauci would&#8217;ve been fired if I were president in 2020."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdesantis-says-if-he-had-been-president-in-2020-fauci-would-have-been-fired%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=1973640&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--><h2>Gov. Ron DeSantis: I Would Have Fired Fauci<\/h2>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">recent interview<\/a> at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, Gov. Ron DeSantis made a bold statement about Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Florida governor, who is also a 2024 presidential candidate, declared that if he had been president in 2020, Fauci would have been out of a job.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I believe Article II of the Constitution means the president has the executive authority. We just say these bureaucrats somehow can&#8217;t be held accountable. I disagree with that. I think you can fire him,&#8221; said DeSantis. &#8220;Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you&#8217;ve got to be willing to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis has been vocal about his opposition to Fauci and has made it a central theme of his 2024 presidential campaign. He has criticized what he calls &#8220;Faucism,&#8221; which includes lockdowns and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-if-he-had-been-president-in-2020-fauci-would-have-been-fired\/\" title=\"DeSantis: Fauci would've been fired if I were president in 2020.\">state-mandated vaccinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, DeSantis has also used Fauci as a way to attack former President Donald Trump. He has criticized Trump for hiring Fauci and allowing him to have influence throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3>House GOP Lawmakers Consider Biden Impeachment<\/h3>\n<p>In other news, some House GOP lawmakers are pushing for the impeachment of President Joe Biden. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">party leadership<\/a> is taking a cautious approach to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates on these developing stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here for more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) claimed that if he were president in 2020, he would have dismissed Dr. Anthony Fauci from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. During an interview with Tucker Carlson at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, the 2024 candidate highlighted the differences between himself and the previous president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973640","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}