Trump blasted Fauci hours ahead of his Senate testimony, claiming his own COVID-19 plan was far superior to that of the one the disease expert had with former President Joe Biden. He further accused Fauci of repeatedly pushing the theory that COVID-19 most likely originated at a live-animal wet market, rather than from the Wuhan lab.
“His ideas were CRAZY! Also, I said from the beginning that the Virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China. Fauci strongly disagreed, always trying to protect China,” Trump fumed.
The president asserted that Fauci “made too many bad calls, like on MASKS,” and said he tried to sideline the doctor and keep him out of key decision-making.
“In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to,” the president wrote. “I went the Federalist way, and let the governors decide. The Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats. Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a ‘King!’”