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Summary
Trump ended federal security protection for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who faced threats after criticizing Trump’s COVID-19 response.
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials
The move follows similar revocations for former officials like Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook, and Bolton, who faced threats from Iran.
Fauci’s protection had been repeatedly renewed under Biden due to ongoing domestic threats.
Critics see this as another instance of Trump targeting former aides-turned-critics.
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The us president, ladies and germs!
I suppose trump’s genocide is on the American people.
Someone else posted this and it seems really on point: Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
This is absolutely what he is doing.
Even without this historical reference … everyone understands what he meant.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
“Wont someone rid me of this meddlesome doctor” vibes
“You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” Trump said.
I wish he had told the Secret Service that four years ago.
“But he’s not a Nazi.”
No, this is literally what the Nazis would do. Now Trump’s paramilitary can take care of the rest. Exactly like the Nazis would.
There is no safety in a totalitarian regime.
Its literally what the Nazis did to people like Hans Litten. As soon as they got to power abuse that power to torture and kill the people who tried to hold them accountable.
Trump is a psychopath. He feels no empathy for anybody and nothing is ever his fault.
This is pretty much every person who sat out the election and handed him the office. Again.
‘it can’t be my fault because I was given a choice between a genocidal maniac and a proven insurrectionist rapist!’
Only the negatives are not his fault. If it was a success he will take credit even if it was others are responsible and he did nothing or even impeded its success.
“Fault” implies that the result is negative.
He’s smart enough to message to his followers what he wants while evading the blame. Like a mafia boss.
If I worked for Trump, I’d take heed: if he can betray former collaborators, he can betray future ones too.
Short term thinkers don’t think like that. Power and money and all that, and then they figure they can beat the orange moron.
He’s betrayed a lot of people who worked for him. Yet the bootlickers keep coming.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs. No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.
No, what he should really do is flee the US to the EU to tell his story. Write a book and go on tv. But never, ever come back.
Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs.
Good luck getting a MAGA judge to allow a case against a sitting President to go forward. If he’s lucky, he might get on the docket sometime in 2028.
No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.
The man literally just held a news conference to say he was stripping Fauci of his security detail and saying he’s not responsible for what happens to him. He literally just put a hit out on the man. He has made virtually every news outlet bend the knee to him in some way, shape, or form already, and has made several credible threats against other outlets that don’t report favorably about him. And his own base wants Fauci dead already.
I don’t think he’s all that worried about negative press.
He doesn’t feel responsibility when he shits his pants, I doubt he CAN feel responsibility.
depends. if it’s a really good stinky juicy one, he might take responsibility for it with his should-be-patented smirky smile when the designated diaper changer approaches.
I won’t be sad if John Bolton gets hurt…
If I said the same thing about Trump I’d get a knock on my door within 30 minutes
- Attempts on Fauci’s life: 0
- Attempts on trump’s life: 2
Attempts on trump’s life: Not enough
Comments: 1
Logic: 0
(Sorry, that was mean, my actual response is a pleasant one: we still wear seatbelts even if we didn’t crash yesterday, or crashed yesterday and survived 🙂)
Holy shit, you people seriously misunderstood the point of this comment.
We do that sometimes!
If you have a moment - even just a sentence on what we missed would be interesting to read
There has been far more organic interest in offing trump. Stoking his degenerates against Fauci may have terminal consequences for someone outside of his myopic scope, nahmean? There is a certain failure of imagination and incomplete risk assessment in his idiotic actions. As ever.
The fuhrer just gave the go ahead for his nazi filth to murder one of the worlds top infectious disease experts, so we’ll see how those numbers change during however many years the republican traitors allow this illegitimate regime to continue.
I absolutely despise Fauci (he literally botched three pandemics), but if he’s targeted it’ll be for all the wrong reasons.
Bring on the downvotes, libs, as always, they don’t change facts. He botched AIDS so badly that gay rights activists were calling for him to be executed by firing squad. He opposed lockdowns for doctors returning from treating Ebola, creating a significant risk for a major domestic outbreak just so a couple people could go out to bars and shit.
But most importantly, he lied to all of us about masks, saying they don’t work, even saying they would increase your chances of catching Covid. Like 80% of the bullshit anti-maskers pushed came directly from the CDC, before they said, “Oopsie! Turns out we were wrong!” There was never any evidence or any reason for them to say masks don’t work. No international organization ever made those sorts of claims, and in other countries they somehow knew to wear masks right from the start.
The reason he lied is to cover Trump’s ass after he sold off all the PPE. They wanted to discourage the public from buying masks so that doctors could have them, but this breach of public trust is largely responsible for creating the anti-mask movement. And once they actually started telling the truth, the public was able to contribute by making cloth masks and donating them to hospitals.
Mods, I know you’re going to remove this comment for “misinformation” (daring to impugn the honor of a liberal media darling), but when you do, please comment a reply listing a single false thing I said, because I base my beliefs on evidence and would love to be proven wrong.I stand corrected on the last point, apologies to the mods for that presumption.
Your personality is insufferable. You really talk like that?
in b4 “ad hominem, that’s wrong,” because I know you’ll immediately fire off about that.
Maybe you should chill the fuck out and stop searching for new ways to be passively antagonistic.
If I said what I did in the nicest way possible, I’d get just as many downvotes.
Also, to be pedantic, it’s not ad hominem, it’s tone policing 😜
Real “the enemy of my enemy is my hero” energy from the Morning Joe crowd. Fauci has been terrible, but mostly for different reasons from why Republicans say he’s been terrible.
