Sunday, July 30, 2023

Why Didn't Trump Fire Fauci? - by Donna Rachel

Why Didn't Trump Fire Fauci? - by Donna Rachel
  • The Swamp runs much deeper than anyone imagined
"Why didn’t Trump fire Fauci when he had the chance? 
That’s the question Florida governor and Republican hopeful Ron DeSantis has been asking on the campaign trail, hoping to dislodge Trump from the top of the Republican Primary leader board.
  • While it may be a good campaign tactic (certainly it’s getting people riled up), the answer is actually so surprisingly simple that either DeSantis knows what it is and is being disingenuous, or he doesn’t know and is therefore not fit to be President.
The truth is: Trump had no power to fire Fauci.
As CNN explained at the time
“Under federal law, Trump doesn’t have the power to directly fire Fauci, a career civil servant, and remove him from government. And while Trump could try ordering his political appointees to dismiss the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci could appeal — a time-consuming process.”...

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