What's amazing to me is that Trump is defending himself on the grounds that "there would have been a firestorm from the left."
So what?!?! Isn't one of the major reasons he was elected was because he would do what was right, regardless of whether or not the left got mad at him? Fauci ruined millions of lives. But Trump not only kept him in, but actually gave him an award because Trump's own personal popularity was more important to him than doing the right thing.
No wonder he didn't "drain the swamp", right? Same freaking logic would have applied. Trump cared more about his chances at being re-elected than on protecting the people he was sworn to protect.
A truly despicable human being.