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JW's avatar

A LOT of people trusted Fauci and he was very convincing to the public. Trump was taking info from his advisors, wrongly so but then again where else was he going to go for "facts", he was not staffed with honest aides.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Fine. But once it was obvious Fauci was a Big Pharma scammer, fighting hydroxycloroquine and other solutions that Trump mentioned... why give Fauci a Commendation?

Reminds me of Trump also praising the Clintons as 'fine (or good?) people' after the election... even toasted Hillary at a big photo op.

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Jeff C's avatar

Well stated BFM. Trump didn't need to destroy Fauci, saying nothing would have been sufficient. But instead he felt compelled to praise and reward him (and Birx) long after it was clear their leadership was disastrous. Why? There is no comprehensible reason for doing so other than he agreed with it. In rewarding Fauci he extended the garden gnome's influence by giving him credibility.

The response to this entirely unforced error is that he got bad advice. Trump has a brain, he is supposed to listen to the advice of others, evaluate it, and then decide what is best. That's what executives do, not blindly follow what they are told by "bad advisors". These excuses defend his bad judgement by acting as though Trump is a child that can't think for himself.

I'll probably support Trump in the primary particularly after this latest indictment by the deep state. But he needs to learn and do things differently. You guys defending his awful judgement on these indefensible actions pretty much ensure he wont.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Well said, good points.

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Steph D's avatar

President Trump said he would ‘hire all the best people’ he also stated that he would ‘drain the swamp”. Had he actually done those things, we might be in a different situation now.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

My doctors at the VA still love Fauci.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

It seems a large majority of Gov workers love each other and the grift.

They certainly are rewarded for voting Democrat and RINO. All their agencies get expanded.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The laziest people I ever met were the federal workers in the DC area.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Not at all surprising 😕

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