Joining the resistance against 74-year-old President Donald Trump, 80-year-old National Institutes of Health [NIH] infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci has turned from loveable grandpa into Trump’s worst critic. Fauci has shown he doesn’t take criticism lightly, lashing out at Trump in not-so-disguised ways, joining Democrats and their media friends into daily interviews where the otherwise sincere sounding doctor lets the media to the dirty work, giving him loaded questions that reflect unfavorably on Trump’s management of the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis.
With the U.S. recording 4.813.647 active cases and 158,365 deaths today, its leaves Fauci, Democrats and the media plenty of reason to attack Trump. Democrats have made the coronavirus crisis their primary campaign issue, blaming Trump for gross mismanagement, knowing Democrats could do no better.
Fauci falls gladly right into the Democrats and media trap, essentially shifting blame off himself and onto Trump for not shutting down the country at 95%, like most countries in Europe and Asia. Whatever the level of the U.S. shut down, Fauci says at 50%, it was enough to wreak havoc on the U.S. Fauci bristled when Trump banned travel from China Jan. 31, then insisted March 31 that it was not necessary for the public to wear face masks. Fauci didn’t like when Trump criticized the World Health Organization [WHO], a group with whom he’s had longstanding ties, for being “China centric.” Trump threatened and eventually cut WHO’s U.S. funding June 1 for 55-year-old Director General Tedros Adhanom, for keeping China’s dirty secret about the deadly coronavirus, before declaring a global pandemic March 11. Before that, Tedros said there was no human-to-human transmission in China.
Fauci didn’t like when Trump took action against his friends at WHO, despite Tedros withholding the truth about human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, China, the origin of the deadly virus. Fauci’s been blaming the resurgence of virus outbreaks in the Southwestern states and Florida, telling the anti-Trump press the president only shut down 50%, unlike his counterparts in Europe. Fauci would never admit that Germany, the European Union’s most prosperous state, announced a 10% decline in Gross Domestic Product, much like the U.S. But to Fauci, the U.S. has done everything wrong, against his wishes, telling the anti-Trump press, in effect, had only the president listened to him. “Wrong!” tweeted Trump, in response to Fauci saying the U.S. didn’t shut down enough. Trump insists that with the U.S. testing 60 million cases, of course there would be a greater incidence of U.S. infections.
Fauci’s been handing Democrats and the press the campaign talking points against giving Trump another four years. While denying that he’s political, allowing himself to be gaslighted by Democrats and media, Fauci’s become a foil for Trump, playing right into Democrats and the media’s campaign narrative about the coronavirus. “If you look at what happened in Europe, when they shut down or locked down or when to shelter in place—however you want to describe it—they really did it to the tune of about 95%-plus of the country,” Fauci said, refuting Trump’s testing excuse. Fauci told the press the U.S. “really functionally shut down only about 50% in the sense of the totality of the country,” Fauci said. Fauci doesn’t say that certain parts of the U.S. in the Upper Midwest or Mountain West didn’t need to lock down because they had so few cases of the virus.
Democrats like to take polls showing that the public trusts Fauci more than Trump when it comes to the coronavirus. What the public hasn’t recognized about Fauci is that he’s turned into a Democrat and media foil against Trump. Fauci has a one-size-fits-all approach to the Covid-19 crisis, encouraging citizens to avoid crowds. Yet when confronted Friday, July 31, in the House subcommittee on coronvirus, he refused to admit that nationwide protesting was not advisable. When pressed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohil), Fauci refused to comment about what the government should do about street protests but had no problem reinforcing the ban on religious groups holding services. Fauci told Jordan he wouldn’t answer a question about what to do about street protesters violating shelter in place orders. Fauci exposes himself for all to see that he’s a partisan Democrat out to get Trump.
Democrats and the press found their man in Fauci to attack Trump with the one person sold as the “nation’s leading expert on coronavirus.” Fauci’s hanging onto his NIH job but is long overdue for retirement. Fauci has recently commended himself to the media on doing, as he says, “with all due modesty,” a really good job. While it’s OK for the Fauci and the media to praise his work on the coronavirus, it not OK to give Trump zero credit for anything. Democrats and the media figure out the Fauci’s the best way of attacking Trump, even though any honest assessment of the Covid-19 crisis would admit that Democrats would do no better, maybe worse. With a population four times the size of the largest EU country, it’s an unfair to compare the United States with any European country. When you consider the 158,365 dead, it’s only .04% of the U.S. population, a minuscule number.
