Trump appointed Fauci as his mouthpiece for his administration during the pandemic. He could have assigned someone else at any time. It was also up to Trump to limit the executive branch's intrenched bureaucracy to within constitutional boundaries - at a minimum. There were massive consequences to the country for following his administration's guidelines/requirements. Trump doesn't get a pass for that. We elect people to lead and make the tough choices, not pass on those obligations to the bureaucracy that has its own interests.
Yeah, looking back at that, it seems so simple.
20-20 hindsight.
Fauci had served since Reagan, and it would be natural to assume he had the country's best interests at heart. Considering the media and their pals in those agencies were suppressing or flat-out censoring information to the contrary, and the bubble of advisors were not disputing what was getting through, I don't blame Trump for his decision to have the person he thought most qualified, considering the information he was getting.
Where the blame for Fauci belongs is squarely on Fauci. His perfidy, for profit, politics, or his own sense of power, is inexcusable. His claims that somehow he had a lock on what was needed (costing billions of taxpayer dollars, and perhaps to his personal profit) were lies, and well supported by the Media, mainstream and social, especially because those media outlets were censoring any and all information to the contrary.
Maybe the POTUS should have tuned in here. We had better information than what was coming out of those media outlets and platforms.
