The following report is by Real Clear Wire:
“It is time for Dr. Fauci to confront the facts and address the numerous controversies that have arisen during and after the pandemic,” said Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, who chairs the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic that will grill the doctor behind closed doors.
Nine Republicans sit on the subcommittee. All of them love to loathe Fauci. Four of them have already endorsed Trump as he seeks the presidency a third time, including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has said publicly that the doctor “should be in jail.”
Fauci was the face of the White House COVID task force, prescribing masking and school closures and lockdown measures during the pandemic, often as Trump stood at his side. The relationship was fraught. Trump frequently contradicted the doctor he deputized, occasionally even grousing about him publicly on Twitter. But in the end, Trump still awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work.
The focus on the decisions Fauci made, and not on the president who empowered him, has exasperated Trump rivals like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Are we going to have some type of accountability?” DeSantis asked during a recent interview with RealClearPolitics. “Are we going to have a reckoning for this, or are we just going to act like everyone did such a great job?”
SEE: ‘Sellout!’ Floridians And “Patriots” Are Angry After Gov. DeSantis Urges Residents To Get Vaxxed
Reps. Debbie Lesko of Arizona, John Joyce of Pennsylvania, and Ronny Jackson of Texas will also get a chance to cross-examine Fauci. Each has criticized the doctor. All of them still endorsed the former president who presided during his tenure. None returned RCP’s request for comment.
“He will, once again, put America and Americans first,” Lesko said in a statement two days after Christmas to announce her endorsement of the Republican president who oversaw Fauci as he prescribed lockdowns and mask mandates from the White House podium.
Ahead of Fauci’s testimony Monday, the Arizona Republican retweeted a post from the subcommittee calling for “serious answers” from the now-retired doctor. “It’s time,” she wrote.
At issue is whether in 2020 Trump delegated far too much authority to Fauci, who pushed hard for extensive pandemic lockdowns. “For an executive widely known for being able to fire people,” wrote Dr. Scott Atlas, who joined the White House COVID task force that summer, “it was shocking that this president allowed the incompetence of the nation’s Task Force advisors to continue.”
Trump has given different accounts for why he deferred to Fauci’s judgment. During remarks last summer, the former president insisted that he once listened to Fauci, but “whatever he said, I did the opposite.”
When conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt later asked why he never removed Fauci, Trump replied that he was “not allowed to fire him” and claimed that Fauci “wasn’t a big player in my administration.”
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on why he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation, Trump pled ignorance, saying during a September interview on Sirius XM,
I don’t know who gave him the commendation. I really don’t know who gave him the commendation. Someone probably handed him a commendation.
Multiple former Trump officials found that answer far-fetched and said publicly that any type of commendation would require a signature from the president. Regarding the suggestion that Fauci be fired, however, several former officials told RCP that is easier said than done. They note that the other members of the COVID task force had a “resignation pact”: If one person was fired, all would resign.
Atlas was the single dissenting voice from that group. A neuro-radiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, he publicly railed against lockdowns and called for a different strategy that was eventually adopted in large part in Florida.
DeSantis rose to national prominence largely because of how he handled the pandemic in that state, and the governor regularly rails against “Faucism” on the campaign trail. Nonetheless, he’s lagging behind Trump by double digits in each of the early primary states, according to the RealClearPolitics Average.
“The 21st century. The three biggest events: 9/11 and the wars that followed, the Great Recession, and then COVID,” DeSantis told RCP. The virus, he continued, “had a broader impact than the other two events combined. And yet, here we are. We’re not even discussing that.”
Polling suggests that the Republican electorate is more concerned with current issues, such as inflation, than a pandemic that began nearly four years ago. Trump’s compounding legal trouble and his vow to deliver “retribution” upon his enemies also seem to overshadow any questions of accountability concerning his handling of the pandemic.
The Trump campaign did not return a request for comment about Fauci’s testimony. A spokesman for the campaign previously told RCP, however, that anyone criticizing Trump’s handling of COVID “couldn’t manage a Little League baseball team let alone manage a global pandemic crisis caused by China.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Putting aside the bias for DeSantis in this article (even though he peddled the narrative and the shots like everyone else), this is still a fair point to be raised.
Fauci is a servant of hell, yes, and should be dealt with the upmost prejudice (though we all know he won’t be, and walk off scot-free); however, the fact that Donald J. Trump’s name is not even mentioned in the discussion for what he did with the Covid scam is telling. Of course, we all know absolutely nothing will be done against him (in this life), but to see the blame exclusively framed against Fauci just shows how much of a dog & pony show this is.
I detailed in a report that proved conclusively that Trump and crew were already working to get the shots delivered WELL in advance – as far back as September, 2019 – before Operation Warp Speed was even engaged in May, 2020. SEE: Ivanka Trump Admits In Tweet That The Trump Admin. Already Partnered With Moderna To Produce MRNA Vaccines BEFORE Operation Warp Speed. As soon as this damning evidence was published and began to circulate on social media, it got promptly shadow banned. Can’t lose control of the narrative and cause a revolt.
And after the fact that sociopathic manic would then go on to constantly brag about the shots, calling it the “beautiful vaccine,” said it should be called the “Trumpcine” and that he is the “Father of the Vaccine.” He would eventually look Candace Owens square in the eye and say that no one died from the shots, after it was becoming common knowledge to know or hear of someone dropping dead post-vaccination. He would even bring the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson wealth on stage during a rally to brag about the vaccines.
Oh, but how dare I criticize the “shepherd to mankind who will never leave nor forsake them”? – according to a video that Trump shared on his Truth Social account last week.
None of the creeps will be get proper judgment in this life, but upon death, oh my oh my will they be judged…
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:27
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Fauci gets blasted but Trump gets off scot-free.
Trump is just as involved as Fauci is and both are Jesuits as well as Redfield.
When they’re at the Great White Throne Judgement, there’ll be no lawyers or secret society connections to bail them out!
Amen!