Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him
Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him
President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled despite ongoing threats to their lives.
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials. A person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, said that Fauci’s federal security detail was ended on Thursday and that he has since hired private security.
When asked about Fauci and former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump said, “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.”
He was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022... and now he is described as "former Trump aide". What a sad destruction of a legacy.
Those 4 years don't erase the long service. I'm glad we had fauci during those 4 years instead of a Trump toadie.
You wallow with pigs, you get covered in pigshit.
Oh yeah. He should have just said "Trump? Ew." and left the populace to his whims.
“You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” Trump said.
He literally has that just by being president.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Trump knows exactly what he's doing. He is waiting on his rabid fan base to kill Fauci.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Wilhoit's Law. It's as true in the US now as it was in Italy a century ago, then Spain and Germany in the following years. Not ominous at all! 😬🤬
Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?
He meant Fauci when he said "you" i guess. This is so fucking stupid, but no surprises there
The smart move here would be for the EU/UK to set up an easy method for all the clever, motivated people alienated by the orange hitter’s actions to jump ship
I'm waiting for the inevitable immigration programs that countries are gonna roll out to make it easier/more attractive for educated Americans
Yes, this is "my" country, but fixing the gaping wound it's got now won't solve all the other more insidious issues
Or Canada...
But what it reminds me of is Haiti, so many Haitians go study abroad and never come back (not permanently anyway)... The same thing will end up happening in the USA if things keep going the way they are, tons of people with higher education will leave and only those in agreement with the government will stay, making things even worse and the general population will be stuck...
Pro tip if you don't have special qualifications to help you get out, Australia has long lasting visas if you do work in the agricultural sector, if you add time as a tourist you can stay up to 2.5 years.
Germany eased up on naturalizations laws in the last year actually, not sure about other countries in the EU but I'm sure they're at least making plans. There's a skilled labor shortage everywhere and they'd love to swipe some Americans.
Yup. Other countries need to step up and take the refugees from our current Nazi president.
They could call it Operation Caperplip!
It's hard to get the same rate of pay outside the US. If I moved to the UK, AND got promoted from Snr Mgr to Director I'd take a 30% pay cut on average, not to mention what I'd lose on selling my house early, transferring 401k, current liquid assets, car, moving costs for me and family as well as the emotional, social and opportunity cost of moving my wife who'd also have to secure her own package or else be out of work.
Then there's the Visa cost.
You're probably looking at $20-30k USD costs not including opportunity cost and salary decrease.
I wouldn't take a 30% pay raise to move to the USA.
That’s valid, but I think that there’s going to be an increasing number of people who feel unsafe enough to take that hit, from the left/lgbt/scientific/non-caucasian communities. There’s almost inevitably going to be a brain-drain because of this, so we might as well take advantage of it
Depending on how much your insurance costs relative to your income, you’ll make up that 30% in savings.
But on the plus side, there aren't legions of "lone wolf" nut jobs just aching to murder you in the name of Dear Leader, who Dear Leader is only too happy to encourage while taking away whatever protections you have from them.
So, you know, give and take.
Operation paperclip
I think many countries won't though, out of fear of retaliation from the aforementioned orange hitler. That's a stupid reason for the EU/UK not to take advantage though, because he's already made clear he will antagonize US allies whenever he pleases and invent an excuse to do it.
Why would you want more Americans in your country? To stupify the populace? Or you want the skilled people to show up and take UK jobs?
As a Canadian to Americans, stay where you are and fix your damn mess. You’re all responsible for allowing it to happen, so deal with it.
a lot of people fled nazi germany before the killing started… at some point it makes sense to save yourself and your family….
it’s not my fault this happened.
btw, this election was stolen, it was mathematically obvious, by comparing polls to results, and trump essentially admitted that musk help him steal pennsylvania by knowing the voting computers so well (i assume his team did).
btw, there’s a large neo-fascist movement growing in canada right now…. go fix it.
If a nutter MAGAt harmed Fauci, Mango Mussolini would pardon the bastard. That is sick.
Trump kept Fauci in place for the entire crisis. If Fauci was bad at his job, doesn't that mean Trump failed the country?
I will never understand how trump killed thousands of people minimum through inaction and got away with it Scot free. Wasn't even mentioned leading up to the election. Not in debates, articles, anywhere that I saw. The man is worse than any serial killer and never even gets a finger wag about it anymore.
What's infuriating, and when I realized how homicidally bad trump is was February 2020, when there was all those rapidly published data trump had access to weeks prior to publication, and he kept on calling it the "flu". Yet wingnuts had to go over tens of thousands of Fauci emails to attack him. Yet nobody's criticized trump's publicly recorded lying that caused tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
You're taking your thinking too far about things that happened a long time ago! Trump voters don't remember shit and a lot of them probably don't understand what they remember.
People have come to realize that leaded gasoline caused mental problems in the 1970s. My current theory is that a combination of micro plastics and post-Covid dementia is at fault.
Only slightly /s
No, it was actually the deep state who kept him in office!!!!!
Yes
Oh look at the time, it is quarter to "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?".
Stochastic Terrorism
The republican party
I know, I repeat myself
It is almost like he said he expects his SA to attack him now, for fuck sake.
This is textbook stochastic terrorism.
Well, he did not say stand back and stand by. So...yeah.
Not only that, but if one of the Jan 6 crew attacks him, I fully expect Trump to pardon that person. Trump is essentially declaring hunting season open, and Republicans will let him, because he's grabbed the party by the pussy.
A purge, except laws apply to non-magas
Almost?
...or NKVD.
[Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials. ]
I am not going to feel any responsibility or concern if harm befells Traitorapist Trump.
"once we get control of all branches of government. kill him on my orders"
He could just walk up and shoot him in the head and say it was for national security. SC said thats totally cool when the president does it. Fuck he could probably make it a PPV event
He could order it and if one of his supporters kills him, trump pardons him, and trump suffers no consequences for ordering a hit
Republicans prove time and time again they are just shit people but the American people are just too stupid and are worse than goldfish when it comes to remembering the lesson.
Its funny how the guy who never pays his bills holds a sermon for others.
We already knew he feels no responsibility. You can't expect a narcissist to be anything other than a horrible person. Its all they can be.
If anything happened to Fauci, they'd see a massive exodus from HHS and it would start a movement those gerontocrats needing doctors would not appreciate.
They all have money, they will feel no repercussions. They can buy the best Healthcare available, taking it away from others without a second thought.
It depends. Congress critters getting priority access to NIH/Walter Reed level care is one of those perks of being a politician. Of course, they can pay a lot for boutique medicine but I'd say, boutique medicine usually doesn't provide the best care. And if they'd got to non-fed academic institutions, they'd get an earful about this fuckery.
So believe it or not, it would impact people in congress quite directly.
If the act of hypocrisy could walk and talk, it’d probably throat-punch trump in the dick and call him a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is a tool of the GQP
I’d be willing to bet that even though it probably admits to being a huge tool, hypocrisy STILL thinks the GOP are tremendous assholes.