President Donald Trump is resharing a tweet calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired.
On Sunday, Trump retweeted a statement from former Congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine who took aim at Fauci. Lorraine made an effort to discredit Fauciās recent statement admitting earlier response efforts could have decreased the spread of the coronavirus.
āFauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he couldāve saved more lives,ā Lorraine tweeted. āFauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.ā
Trump retweeted the post saying, āSorry Fake News, itās all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you ā
Trumpās retweet comes just hours after Fauci appeared on CNNās āState of the Unionā with Jake Tapper. During the Easter Sunday interview, the top infectious disease expert in America admitted that fewer Americans may have been affected by the coronavirus if earlier response measures were implemented.
āI mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives,ā Fauci said.
āObviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those decisions is complicated,ā added Fauci, who is a key member of the Trump administrationās coronavirus task force. āBut youāre right, I mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.ā
While Fauci believes no one could deny that most would agree earlier guidelines may have greatly changed the projection models of the Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump supporters arenāt exactly pleased with what that notion suggests.
As of Monday morning, there are more than 555,000 positive coronavirus cases in the United States.
