Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 8:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Former President and 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was “not allowed” to fire controversial former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, a claim met with swift rebuke by his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
During an interview, Republican talk radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump, “Why did you keep Dr. Fauci?”
“First of all, you’re not allowed,” Trump answered. “He’s civil service, and you’re not allowed to fire him. But forget that, because I don’t necessarily go by everything. But Dr. Fauci would tell me things, and I wouldn’t do them, in many cases. But also, he wasn’t a big player in my administration.”
“When Ron DeSantis says on the debate stage you didn’t fire Fauci and you shut down the country and that was a mistake, how will you respond?” Hewitt followed up.
Trump responded by claiming that DeSantis “shut down his beaches. He shut down the entire state,” and that he had “five articles about how much he [DeSantis] loves Dr. Fauci,” which became six articles later in the answer.
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