Birx: Fauci, other colleagues on Trump team had resignation pact

[mystery-ak]

 Birx: Fauci, other colleagues on Trump team had resignation pact
by Rachel Scully - 04/26/22 7:37 AM ET

Deborah Birx, who served as coronavirus response coordinator for former President Trump, said in a new interview that she and other members of his COVID-19 response team had a resignation pact if one person was removed from the group.

“I actually wasn’t worried about myself being fired because I was dual-hatted, and I would go back to the State Department and my PEPFAR job, full time,” Birx told ABC News, noting her role as the coordinator of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the government’s program to combat HIV and AIDS.

“I was very worried about Bob and Steve– because you can hear in the hallways how people were talking about them,” she added, referring to former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, and former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn.

“And so, I went to the vice president multiple times to call Bob and Steve because I was worried about them feeling like they were–at that risk. And I was very clear to the chief of staff that if anything happened to Bob or Steve, we would all leave.”

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3463388-birx-fauci-other-colleagues-on-trump-team-had-resignation-pact/

[Right_in_Virginia]

Damn shame they didn't just resign.

[deb]

Swampies gotta swamp.

[Kamaji]

Would that they had followed through.

[Wingnut]

Scarf sales would have cratered had she lost her job.

[mountaineer]

I was dual-hatted

Is that like double-dipping?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Remember this?

Deborah Birx joins company that claims to purify the air from Covid after Biden declines to offer her a job
Public health expert finds new role in the private sector after acknowledging how ‘the Biden administration wanted a clean slate’
Independent/UK, Mar 21, 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/deborah-birx-new-job-air-purifier-covid-b1817368.html

[rustynail]

Did they pinkie swear?

[jmyrlefuller]

And yet Trump refused to fire a single soul.

Why she was so afraid for Redfield when he was probably the most sane member of the group (though that's relative) is perplexing. It's clear that she and Saint Fauci considered themselves so entrenched in The Swamp that they couldn't be touched... and Trump didn't touch them.

[mountaineer]

And yet Trump refused to fire a single soul.

The sad truth.

[Right_in_Virginia]

And yet Trump refused to fire a single soul.

@jmyrlefuller   Pence refused to fire Birx and Fauci.  He even refused the President's request to pull these two off the talk show circuit.

What action Pence threatened the President with will come to light in due time.

[jmyrlefuller]

@jmyrlefuller   Pence refused to fire Birx and Fauci.  He even refused the President's request to pull these two off the talk show circuit.

What action Pence threatened the President with will come to light in due time.

Then why did Trump promise to fire Fauci after the election? Even as a lame duck he did nothing.

Because Trump was buddies with Cuomo and Fauci all along. He approved of this and acted like he didn't.