Fauci to Trump - Grow Up!

After days of sniping from Trump's White House sock puppets trying to undermine him, Dr. Anthony Fauci apparently has had enough.

“I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that,” Dr. Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic on Wednesday. “I think they realize now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it’s only reflecting negatively on them.” 

He spoke as Trump administration officials have sought to undermine his credibility — first anonymously, over the weekend, and then out in the open. A short op-ed by Peter Navarro, the president’s top trade adviser, published in USA Today on Tuesday evening was headlined “Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.” Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff for communications, posted a cartoon Sunday evening mocking Dr. Fauci. 

In the interview Wednesday, Dr. Fauci called the partisan environment around the virus disturbing. 

“It distracts from what I hope would be the common effort of getting this thing under control, rather than this back-and-forth distraction, which just doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

Asked to review the government’s response to the pandemic, he said: “We’ve got to almost reset this and say, OK, let’s stop this nonsense and figure out how can we get our control over this now, and looking forward, how can we make sure that next month, we don’t have another example of California, Texas, Florida and Arizona, because those are the hot zones now, and I’m looking at the map, saying we got to make sure it doesn’t happen in other states.”

Navarro has been Trump's crazy-loyal backstabber.  It was Navarro who, according to Trump officials, was sent out in June, 2018 to attack Justin Trudeau after Trump felt slighted following a G7 meeting in Canada. Navarro said "there is a special place in Hell" for Trudeau. His attack on Fauci is just another example of Trump White House "juvenilia."

When the inevitable backlash arrived Trump moved quickly to distance himself from Navarro's smear job - again.