Why is Peter Navarro bad-mouthing Dr. Fauci?

[BKDem]

Navarro's area of non-expertise is trade, not epidemiology.

[edhopper]

1. instructions from

the WH. They must all follow Dear Leader.

[Zoonart]

2. This is their new story line...

We fucked up because we were given bad advice by the evil Dr Fauci.
I hope Fauci rips them a new one.

[Wounded Bear]

21. This...can't be allowing the hired help to bad mouth the boss...

[Champp]

3. Republicans want all truth tellers to quit

Fauci should go NUCLEAR with facts and make the Republican golfer-in-chief fire him.

[BKDem]

7. Fauci should absolutely rip Trump publicly.

Trump has surely said stuff so dumb and callous and selfish as to repel most decent human beings. Fauci should give us every ugly word of it -- the future of the country may depend on it.

[spanone]

4. because he is one of the worse fucking people on earth.

[captain queeg]

5. As usual they are working on messaging, not on the problem

It’s the rethug MO, always blame someone else. I’d like to see a Lincoln ad focusing on that.

[NewJeffCT]

6. In the Trump administration

just being able to call yourself a doctor (Navarro has a PhD in Economics) means you're an expert in everything

[BKDem]

8. Or if your uncle was a doctor or professor, that also good enough.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Because the King of Snowflakes is melting.

[Turbineguy]

10. That reminds me of an old Soviet joke:

A guy walks into a butcher shop and asks, "Do you have any fish today?"

The person behind the counter answers, "We don't have meat here! They don't have fish across the street!"

[BKDem]

11. Good one!

[duforsure]

12. Trump has to have others attack him now

Because Dr. Fauci tells the truth, and trumps propaganda won't work when the truth exposes trumps lies, making it not work anymore.

[MineralMan]

13. Fauci should resign, citing a lack of confidence from Trump.

Then, he should appear frequently on news programs to counter Trump's nonsense. Once out of that job, he will have no further reason to cover for Donald J. Trump, something he has been doing to some degree all along.

[SoonerPride]

14. Because Dr. Fauci is an expert and tells the truth

Can't have that in this Confederacy of Dunces.

[Voltaire2]

15. Because he is a flying monkey working for

the wicked witch?


Do I win?

[maxrandb]

16. Why is no one stomping Navarro's guts out?

[JI7]

17. Becsuse he wants trump to like him

[dalton99a]

18. Navarro lied and cheated his way into academic jobs

[peggysue2]

19. They're trying their best to discredit Fauci

This is a battle in real time between knowledge and ignorance, medical expertise vs political expediency, truth vs flat-out lying. It's another spin on don't trust your lying ears and eyes or what Trump said early in his term:

What you're reading or hearing isn't what's happening. Believe only me.

The American people, our perceptions are under assault by Trump and his henchmen. Make no mistake: we are at war with a criminal enterprise that will do anything to be victorious in November. Anything.

Btw, Dr. Fauci is (at the moment) trusted by 67% of the American population. This smearing will be a test case. If they can ruin Dr. Fauci, we'll see the same techniques used against Joe Biden and all Democrats.

We are at War! The objective is the destruction of the country.

[IcyPeas]

20. Navarro's a loud mouth prick, like his boss

[scarletlib]

22. Because this whole administration is filled with despicable cretins.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. My guess would be that he can't stand people who actually know WTF they're talking about. nt

[SeattleVet]

24. It's part of the administration's attempted character assassination of Dr. Fauci.

They're doing everything they possibly can to try to discredit him because hard-core reality doesn't fit into this week's narrative.