#FireFauci signals coronavirus blame game is in full throttle

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/powerup/2020/04/13/powerup-firefauci-signals-coronavirus-blame-game-is-in-full-throttle/5e937fc988e0fa101a760f45/

By Jacqueline Alemany

April 13 at 6:11 AM

At The White House
THE BLAME GAME IS ON: Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, confirmed yesterday that lives could have been saved had President Trump made the call to shut the country down sooner as the novel coronavirus began to spread throughout the United States.

“I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives,” he said on CNN's “State of the Union” on CNN. “Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But you’re right. Obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.”

#FireFauci? Fauci's comments were not lost on the president, who retweeted and responded to a post with a #FireFauci hashtag, claiming he had acted early to contain the disease by banning travel from China — a move Fauci was initially against. It was one of several tweets issued by the president on Easter Sunday in defense of his handling of the crisis.

“If the Fake News Opposition Party is pushing, with all their might, the fact that President Trump ‘ignored early warnings about the threat,’ then why did Media & Dems viciously criticize me when I instituted a Travel Ban on China? They said ‘early & not necessary.’ Corrupt Media!” he tweeted yesterday afternoon.

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[BKDem]

1. So Trump retweets people telling him to fire Fauci?

All I can say is, go ahead, Donald.

Do it or stop tweeting about it, you fucking coward.