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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1246926)7/14/2020 5:54:59 PM
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End of the Faucian Bargain

The day after he Trump White House put out talking points aimed at discrediting the nation's leading expert in infectious diseases, the president retweeted a former game show host:



Then we got this bit of juvenalia on Facebook from Dan Scavino, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media:



No points for subtlety here. The Trumpian attack on expertise --- and on Anthony Fauci-- has gone en fuego.

The Washington Post reports:In recent days, the 79-year-old scientist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has found himself directly in the president’s crosshairs. During a Fox News interview Thursday with Sean Hannity, Trump said Fauci “is a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes.” And when Greta Van Susteren asked him last week about Fauci’s assessment that the country was not in a good place, Trump said flatly: “I disagree with him.”

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