Summary

Trump ended federal security protection for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who faced threats after criticizing Trump’s COVID-19 response.

Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials

The move follows similar revocations for former officials like Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook, and Bolton, who faced threats from Iran.

Fauci’s protection had been repeatedly renewed under Biden due to ongoing domestic threats.

Critics see this as another instance of Trump targeting former aides-turned-critics.

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    “You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” Trump said.

    I wish he had told the Secret Service that four years ago.

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    “But he’s not a Nazi.”

    No, this is literally what the Nazis would do. Now Trump’s paramilitary can take care of the rest. Exactly like the Nazis would.

    There is no safety in a totalitarian regime.

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      Its literally what the Nazis did to people like Hans Litten. As soon as they got to power abuse that power to torture and kill the people who tried to hold them accountable.

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      This is pretty much every person who sat out the election and handed him the office. Again.

      ‘it can’t be my fault because I was given a choice between a genocidal maniac and a proven insurrectionist rapist!’

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      Only the negatives are not his fault. If it was a success he will take credit even if it was others are responsible and he did nothing or even impeded its success.

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      Trump is probably a legit narcissist. The difference is the intention and the changing inner reality to fit his narratives.

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      He’s smart enough to message to his followers what he wants while evading the blame. Like a mafia boss.

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      Short term thinkers don’t think like that. Power and money and all that, and then they figure they can beat the orange moron.

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    Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs. No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.

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      No, what he should really do is flee the US to the EU to tell his story. Write a book and go on tv. But never, ever come back.

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      Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs.

      Good luck getting a MAGA judge to allow a case against a sitting President to go forward. If he’s lucky, he might get on the docket sometime in 2028.

      No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.

      The man literally just held a news conference to say he was stripping Fauci of his security detail and saying he’s not responsible for what happens to him. He literally just put a hit out on the man. He has made virtually every news outlet bend the knee to him in some way, shape, or form already, and has made several credible threats against other outlets that don’t report favorably about him. And his own base wants Fauci dead already.

      I don’t think he’s all that worried about negative press.

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      depends. if it’s a really good stinky juicy one, he might take responsibility for it with his should-be-patented smirky smile when the designated diaper changer approaches.