Trump Tweets Call To Fire Dr. Fauci

President Donald Trump’s frustration with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, became apparent to the public after retweeting a post on Sunday, April 12. 

Fauci said on Sunday in an interview with CNN that more lives could have been saved from the coronavirus if the country had gone into lockdown sooner, which is something he later walked back at the Monday evening press conference. 

“Obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different,” Fauci said. “But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”

According to a New York Times article, President Donald Trump responded by retweeting a post from DeAnna Lorraine saying “Time to #FireFauci”. 

DeAnna Lorraine, a pro-Trump congressional candidate, claimed in her tweet that the argument of firing Fauci stems back from late February. 

“Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives,” Lorraine said in a tweet. “Fauci was telling people on Feb. 29 that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.”

Trump and Fauci have continuously disputed each other’s statements during the period of coronavirus.