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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    “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.

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      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.

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    “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.

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    I absolutely despise Fauci (he literally botched three pandemics), but if he’s targeted it’ll be for all the wrong reasons.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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 😜

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      Trump is probably a legit narcissist. The difference is the intention and the changing inner reality to fit his narratives.

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      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!’

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      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.

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      He’s smart enough to message to his followers what he wants while evading the blame. Like a mafia boss.

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      The thing about narcissists - especially ones who want political power - is that every single one believes they are special, different, and in control.

      You could put them all in an auditorium and tell them, “Look to your left, look to your right, look in front of you, look behind you. All but one of you will be betrayed and thrown in jail by Trump,” and every single one would uncritically think they are the 1 in 5 that will not. They all think they can manipulate Trump and each other better than the others.

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        ou could put them all in an auditorium and tell them, “Look to your left, look to your right, look in front of you, look behind you. All but one of you will be betrayed and thrown in jail by Trump,”

        Fixed that for you. They all think that they are the exception to the rule. They think they’ll be able to jump in, make all the money, and bail out before the shit hits the fan and blows right in their face. They have the one “it” factor that everybody else has been missing.

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      Short term thinkers don’t think like that. Power and money and all that, and then they figure they can beat the orange moron.