DeSantis takes shot at Trump for Fauci’s role during admin’s coronavirus response

[mystery-ak]

April 23, 2023 3:24pm EDT
DeSantis takes shot at Trump for Fauci’s role during admin’s coronavirus response
Florida gov: Leaders 'don't subcontract out their leadership to health bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci'
By Emma Colton | Fox News

    Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a swipe at former President Donald Trump over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role during the COVID-19 pandemic while delivering a keynote speech at a Republican event.

"A leader must have the confidence to stand all alone if need be," DeSantis said at the Utah GOP Convention on Saturday. "And so for us, as I got into office, COVID presented that situation for us because we were in a situation – the third-largest state in the country – one of the highest percentage of elderly, economy based on tourism, which we needed to travel to continue."

"So, this situation was an existential threat to our state, but I made the judgment. Leaders take the bull by the horns and make the decisions for themselves. They don't subcontract out their leadership to health bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci," he continued.

Fauci, who retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year, served as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Trump administration, helping craft guidelines for Americans during the pandemic.

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[Hoodat]

Fauci, who retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year, served as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Trump administration, helping craft guidelines for Americans during the pandemic.

This cannot be emphasized enough.  Definitely not what a swamp-drainer would have allowed.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

The most common excuse I've seen for why Trump stayed with Fauci is "The media and Democrats would have torn Trump apart if he had sidelined Fauci."

Which of course makes Trump the exact kind of weak-kneed RINO his supporters claim he isn't.

On the other hand, DeSantis did publicly refute Fauci, and Fauci and all his leftist media allies went after him saying he was murdering his own state's residents, etc..  But he stuck with his own judgement,and was proven correct.

[libertybele]

The most common excuse I've seen for why Trump stayed with Fauci is "The media and Democrats would have torn Trump apart if he had sidelined Fauci."

Which of course makes Trump the exact kind of weak-kneed RINO his supporters claim he isn't.

On the other hand, DeSantis did publicly refute Fauci, and Fauci and all his leftist media allies went after him saying he was murdering his own state's residents, etc..  But he stuck with his own judgement,and was proven correct.

Exactly.  DeSantis made the correct choices and has continued to move us in a conservative direction. Florida has become the most  free state in the nation and that is why hundreds of thousands have flocked here in the past couple of years during all the COVID chaos.