Great.

Trashing Fauci ain't going to save Trump's bloated ass.

The best statement he could have made was to get the hell out of Dodge at the first sign of smoke. He can't get these folks to listen so the best statement to make would be, "It was an honor and pleasure to serve the American people but I can't continue to work in my position if the President does not have confidence in me."

It would have been a loud and potent statement. I don't think he understands that staying only diminishes his standing. Get out before the whole thing implodes and people feel lesser of you. In reality, he's a smart man, he'll find meaningful work just about anywhere. He can't help us from the inside right now. Sorry but I don't think much of him since he doesn't seem to understand who he's dealing with.

We need a competent health expert in the mix somewhere at least. If only to give Trump the face palm on TV. Also of course to squeeze in pertinent information in between Trump's self promotion.

If Fauci resigned he'd be forgotten by the MSM, and instead this guy would be Trump's public heath expert.

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I hope he stays safe.

and move on to the Bill Barr type that Trump replaces him with.

he blames Fauci. Poor Trump, always the victim.

I'm surprised it's taken this long and even more surprised that such an esteemed expert like Dr. Fauci hasn't told Trump to stuff it where the sun doesn't shine (only in a much more professional manner of course).

Even the dipshits Trumpanzies who raised millions to build their Fuehrer some of his wall got berated by that POS a couple of days ago.

that the White House doesn't think Fauci is working in the president's best interest.

What the white house is really saying is that trump was wrong. I fauci was too optimistic, trump was ten times more wrong.

Twump was breathing down his neck since day one trying to control the narrative

but I will say that most lasting damage was done back then in the month of February and March. Not only CDC said one should not wear masks - it said wearing masks make it more dangerous for you cause you’d be touching face more frequently. Fauci agreed at the time which was beyond dumb to anyone observing from countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, etc. - most successful in fighting this pandemic. For that, I won’t be defending Fauci even if he was right on most other things. It was too fundamental and caused thousands of unnecessary lives to just let it slide.

... it was because they feared masks wouldn't be available to healthcare workers if they stated the truth to the general public.

I didn't like it, but I assumed that was the reason after the panic-buying and subsequent shortages of toilet paper and such.

It was NOT because they suddenly learned that asymptomatic people could transmit it. That was already published in China and elsewhere!

After major sellers like Amazon no longer made the better masks available unless buyers could show they were government or healthcare facilities, then Fauci and the CDC suddenly changed their tune about masks to the general public.

Edit: Most of the blame goes to Trump, of course. There's no way that he wasn't told about the concerns of mask shortages. He's just looking for a scapegoat, as usual.

we weren’t the only country with ppe shortages

That's something Trump and his cronies would never do.

And I'm sure they could rationalize it by also claiming, which is surely accurate, that masks aren't as helpful as social distancing and isolation... which they were pushing all along.

Edit: The "clue" that I noticed back then (among others here at DU) was how Fauci often mentioned concern about shortages of PPE for frontline workers very soon after he was asked about masks for the general public.

Turns out that is not even a major mode of transmission. But I guess soap was available, and masks-not so much.
But I knew we were lied to from the start, because covid is a respiratory virus.

You can't just take a partial statement and fault it. You have to provide the context. I know the statement on masks was at a time when there was a dire shortage and what masks were available were needed desperately by the health care workers so the last thing we needed was a run on face masks. The January statement came before America had suffered its first death from the disease. Frankly, it is irresponsible to run with these charges without providing the context. Considering that these charges are coming from someone who recommended ingesting Clorox to kill the virus I know who I wouldn't be listening to.

....you get up with fleas.

Orange County (California), a longstanding Republican area popular for its beaches and Disneyland, is stating they are going to reopen schools this fall without any mask requirements.

or that our government would be so monumently useless. He explained why he said what he did about masks. There is no way that I would believe anything tRump or his imbeciles say when we know all the do is lie. tRump is just following Faux News and can't stand anyone contradicting him even if it means lives may be saved.

He refuses to help trump spread propaganda, and instead tells the truth about how badly the situation really is. trump wants everything to be about him and how great he's doing ,and has done , which Dr. Fauci knows is BS, and won't help him . So now trump is demonizing the best expert we have on virus and pandemics, which is going nowhere, and making trump again look like the fool. trump lies so much , and has intentionally put out misinformation on this virus knowing it was false. The virus is kicking trumps ass, and no spin will make him look good no matter who he tries to blame this time.

Fast way to spread CV19, reopening schools. NYT reported Trump wants internal analysis buried.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/cdc-documents-warn-high-risk-schools-reopening/index.html

Which one do you think is pushing for early opening to help his re-election? Which one is trying to get the pandemic under control? And whose ego is being damaged?