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This was already known. It's why Fauci started showing up literally everywhere except major TV spots: podcasts, web features, radio shows, etc.
I lay thousands of death at the tiny, spur ridden feet of Trump yet it is rarely brought up which I don't understand.
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In a sworn deposition before the House January 6 select committee, ex-White House communications boss Alyssa Farah Griffin told investigators she frequently received “signal” from Mr Trump’s reelection campaign asking the White House to refrain from keeping “the doctors” — meaning longtime National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease director Dr Anthony Fauci and White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr Deborah Birx — off of television as a way to “talk about coronavirus less” despite the ongoing pandemic.
“Sometimes, the campaign would signal to talk about coronavirus less. That was ... a battle I was dealing with: ‘Don't put the doctors on TV, don't talk about- - just don't talk about coronavirus in general. It's not driving home a message for us,’” said Ms Griffin, who served as the White House Communications Director from April to December of 2020.

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whenever his name comes up around me (here in my very red midwest town) and someone invariably starts reminiscing about how they miss him - i'll say something roughly like "he sure made a lot of dead americans...i mean, like 20 times the entire Vietnam war or something, right? i forget...did he fight in that?" >

They’ll just say more people died under Biden, which is irrelevant because Trump’s rhetoric is what was responsible for killing a bunch of people. >

which is inherently irrelevant, as that's not how exponential graphs work.
if we had properly responded in the first place, more people would have always lived.
Biden was given a sick country by a man who didn't care. >

Also because after the election a lot of the right wing state governments started going even harder on trying to infect people >

They were still vying for his favor. It was like six months before the Republicans stopped talking like Trump was just down the street and his spies were ready to snitch to him at any moment.
And Trump was offended that the vaccines arrived after the election instead of before. 
If it'd been up to him, they'd still be sitting on the tarmac. He left it up to whoever to distribute them. 
Which gave GOP govenors the opportunity to make sure the vaccines got to the wealthy ahead of the healthcare workers and the nursing home residents. >

He missed his chance there, of throwing the vaccines out to the crowd. >

With his name on them. >

Every time I hear Conservatives complain about Biden's pushing for loan forgiveness as an attempt to "buy votes", I am reminded of Trump sending out an accompanying letter with the Covid stimulus checks taking credit for the relief. >

Yeah no shit.  Donald himself muzzled Nancy Messonier back in February 2020 after she publicly testified that Covid-19 would very soon disrupt every aspect of our lives.  So the man is not only the biggest traitor in American history, but hundreds of thousands of deaths are directly related to his stupidity, vanity, and unwillingness to tell the truth. >

And opportunist. The port cities in New York and California were taking the brunt and they were very unfair to him, so eff ‘em. “New York will suffer and that’s their problem” — Donald Trump’s whiz kid son in law >

Jared took it upon himself to decide that New York state did not need 30,000 ventilators while they were preparing the mass grave on Hart Island.
“I have all this data about ICU capacity. I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators,” Kushner said.
Fauci said the estimate of the number of ventilators that New York requested was probably correct. >

“I’m doing my own projections” reading statistics for dummies and playing foosball with his college frat bros, the guys he “hired” to run the Covid analytics in the first place. And they failed. Miserably >

I’m old enough to remember three years ago. >

Pepperidge Farm remembers. >

i'll never forget when the party of "all life is sacred" suggested sacrificing grandma and grandpa go back to work while covid was raging in order to save the economy >

The party that said there would be death panels once the ACA or universal health care became law. >

the party of "fast food jobs are for high school kids!!" and also "why is mcdonalds understaffed at lunchtime!!! no one wants to work!!" >

I remember Fauci joking with one of the late show personalities (Colbert, possibly) at the end of January, 2021 about how, the day of Biden's inauguration, Fauci's media schedule really opened up and he was again available to do press.
"Funny how that is." was Dr. Fauci's response, I believe. >

And they still blame Fauci. >

Yep, and they could never admit that people dying around them were dying from Covid. They just made up something like "natural causes" or "measles". Just like what Russia and Putin would do. >

Oh my favorite: “it’s just really bad flu and 10,000 people die from each year.” >

"Dozens of people spontaneously combust every year. It's just not widely reported" - Spinal Tap 😆 >

Alongside quicksand, spontaneous combustion was something I had a lot of disproportionate worry over as a kid, lol. >

I never thought about what real problems, like what will it be like when a relative asks to borrow money. >

The GOP is right, we do need an investigation into the handling of COVID, by Trump and the criminal GOP. How many people died because of Trump disinformation and lies over COVID. Like everything else, the anti-Fauci "whataboutism" is just projection. >

I find it hilarious how they wanna blame Fauci, but Trump waving his hand saying it would magically go away every two weeks gets no scrutiny whatsoever. They’re full of it. >

Someone explained it like this and it made a lot of sense. If it was 40,000 years ago and the tribal leader was accused of something by someone else, all the tribe would attack the dissenter. It's literally that primal with these cult people. >

It's technically called tribalism. >

Dump was made aware of Covid at least three months prior to the first known case in the US and he did NOTHING. Then once it hit the US, he told the American public that it's nothing and that it will go away very soon etc. The pos has so much blood on his tiny hands. >

Not true, he cut funding for CDC operations in China. >

Ok, he also did that. But none of what I said is not true.  🤷 >

You said he did NOTHING. He did things that made everything worse. If he had done nothing, things wouldn't have been as bad. Same with Elon and Twitter. >

Can't have science getting out to the public >

I believe Fauci did the best he could under difficult circumstances, but fuck Meredith Birx. She was complicit in Trump’s botched Covid response. >

The way everything went down and the many Americans that died because Trump ignored, and even made fun of the Covid threat makes me believe that he really was working for our adversaries. He is a genuine traitor to our country and very much needs to be held accountable. >

💯 Living in NYC in 2020 seriously felt like every day we were under attack from our own fcking country. It was fcking surreal.