Senator Rand Paul Hits Trump For Saying He Couldn’t Fire Fauci During Pandemic | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized former President Donald Trump this week for claiming during an interview that he could not fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saying that even if that were true, there was no reason why Trump had to put Fauci in charge of managing the U.S. government's response to the pandemic.

    "He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around," Paul told Fox News host Jesse Watters. "Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation, it's Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source. So he should have fired him."

    When asked if he thought Fauci was going to play a big role in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Paul said, "It may because Fauci did stick around."

    "There may be civil service rules about actually firing him, but there's no reason he had to head up the pandemic committee, the COVID Committee," Paul said. "So he was on the committee. In fact, if not the lead, he was the committee with the vice president. They met all of the time."

    Under federal civil service law, Trump did not have the power to directly fire Fauci, although he could have ordered political appointees to begin termination proceedings if they had cause, according to CNN. Trump could have diminished Fauci's role in press briefings and the making and implementation of COVID policy, however.

    Paul said that Fauci "pushed out" then-CDC Director Robert Redfield from the committee, who Paul said was "the one sane voice on the committee."

    "The one thing that could have saved thousands of lives before the vaccine, was that the nurses and the assistants and the people taking care of people in the nursing home, we should have put people in those positions who had already been infected and recovered, knowing that naturally acquired immunity would then protect those senior citizens from getting infected," Paul said. "And we never did that because Fauci kept saying, 'well, we're not sure, we're not sure.'"

    "Well, immunity, we are pretty certain of," Paul added. "That's what vaccines are based on his naturally acquired immunity from the disease. We try to simulate that with a vaccine. So - but by denying it, I think many lives were cost, and there would have been a better way, I think, under the Trump administration to marginalize and push Fauci out of the spotlight and keep his nonsense and his misinformation from infecting the rest of us."

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Sen. @RandPaul rips Trump for keeping Fauci around:"He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around. Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation. It's Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source, so he should... pic.twitter.com/7PgKg1AnQj

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Considering the irrefutable fact that the Left /the Democratic Socialists, beginning in March of 2020, employed the repetitive use of the Covid Pandemic as a political cudgel to wrest a presidential election, where their candidate rarely left his basement, from a frightened and beaten down citizenry of this Representative Republic: What does your knowledge NOW, in hindsight, aid in your understanding of the motives of the Authoritarian Left?

  The "Left" cares about all Democratics, so it was imperative that we do whatever it took to elect a lifelong politician to become that Democratic Socialist to forever change US.

  Pandemics are serious business, where our leaders must use wisdom and practicable efforts of all that serve to protect the public from not only the pandemic, but these ignoble usurpers of the Left.

  I lost almost everything in the Covid Pandemic, and I want justice; a justice where only the truth prevails, and the rampant fraud that is now legend is remedied.

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