Summary
Trump ended federal security protection for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who faced threats after criticizing Trump’s COVID-19 response.
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials
The move follows similar revocations for former officials like Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook, and Bolton, who faced threats from Iran.
Fauci’s protection had been repeatedly renewed under Biden due to ongoing domestic threats.
Critics see this as another instance of Trump targeting former aides-turned-critics.
Someone else posted this and it seems really on point: Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
This is absolutely what he is doing.
Even without this historical reference … everyone understands what he meant.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
“You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” Trump said.
I wish he had told the Secret Service that four years ago.
Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs. No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.
Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs.
Good luck getting a MAGA judge to allow a case against a sitting President to go forward. If he’s lucky, he might get on the docket sometime in 2028.
No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.
The man literally just held a news conference to say he was stripping Fauci of his security detail and saying he’s not responsible for what happens to him. He literally just put a hit out on the man. He has made virtually every news outlet bend the knee to him in some way, shape, or form already, and has made several credible threats against other outlets that don’t report favorably about him. And his own base wants Fauci dead already.
I don’t think he’s all that worried about negative press.
No, what he should really do is flee the US to the EU to tell his story. Write a book and go on tv. But never, ever come back.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
The us president, ladies and germs!
I suppose trump’s genocide is on the American people.
I won’t be sad if John Bolton gets hurt…
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Not only would he feel no responsibility, it’d probably give him a semi.
Funny shit
“lol stochastic terrorism is funny”
Get fucked
More funny shit.
I absolutely despise Fauci (he literally botched three pandemics), but if he’s targeted it’ll be for all the wrong reasons.
Bring on the downvotes, libs, as always, they don’t change facts. He botched AIDS so badly that gay rights activists were calling for him to be executed by firing squad. He opposed lockdowns for doctors returning from treating Ebola, creating a significant risk for a major domestic outbreak just so a couple people could go out to bars and shit.
But most importantly, he lied to all of us about masks, saying they don’t work, even saying they would increase your chances of catching Covid. Like 80% of the bullshit anti-maskers pushed came directly from the CDC, before they said, “Oopsie! Turns out we were wrong!” There was never any evidence or any reason for them to say masks don’t work. No international organization ever made those sorts of claims, and in other countries they somehow knew to wear masks right from the start.
The reason he lied is to cover Trump’s ass after he sold off all the PPE. They wanted to discourage the public from buying masks so that doctors could have them, but this breach of public trust is largely responsible for creating the anti-mask movement. And once they actually started telling the truth, the public was able to contribute by making cloth masks and donating them to hospitals.
Mods, I know you’re going to remove this comment for “misinformation” (daring to impugn the honor of a liberal media darling), but when you do, please comment a reply listing a single false thing I said, because I base my beliefs on evidence and would love to be proven wrong.I stand corrected on the last point, apologies to the mods for that presumption.
Your personality is insufferable. You really talk like that?
in b4 “ad hominem, that’s wrong,” because I know you’ll immediately fire off about that.
Maybe you should chill the fuck out and stop searching for new ways to be passively antagonistic.
If I said what I did in the nicest way possible, I’d get just as many downvotes.
Also, to be pedantic, it’s not ad hominem, it’s tone policing 😜
Real “the enemy of my enemy is my hero” energy from the Morning Joe crowd. Fauci has been terrible, but mostly for different reasons from why Republicans say he’s been terrible.
- Attempts on Fauci’s life: 0
- Attempts on trump’s life: 2
Attempts on trump’s life: Not enough
The fuhrer just gave the go ahead for his nazi filth to murder one of the worlds top infectious disease experts, so we’ll see how those numbers change during however many years the republican traitors allow this illegitimate regime to continue.
