{"id":21255,"date":"2026-07-29T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21255"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:48:51","slug":"trump-says-he-warned-biden-about-fauci-was-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21255","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he warned Biden about Fauci, was ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/07\/29\/Congress_Fauci_2999__s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump on Wednesday said he sent a warning early in former President Biden\u2019s term about Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn\u2019t have a clue, or was dishonest,\u201d Mr. Trump said on social media. \u201cThe call was well received, but sadly, not acted on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power. The rest is history!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump took apart Dr. Fauci, the former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who took the Fifth before the Senate Homeland Security Committee after being subpoenaed to testify following the release of his diary excerpts during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump posted, \u201cMany more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration. \u2019Operation Warp Speed\u2019 was a SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, in fact, many say, one of the most successful things ever done by an American President. I overrode Fauci on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president said Dr. Fauci\u2019s ideas were \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump also wrote that he said from the start that the virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China, but that Dr. Fauci \u201cstrongly disagreed, always trying to protect China.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The president added, \u201cI inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him. He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said he didn\u2019t let Dr. Fauci shut down the country, despite the director\u2019s urging, preferring to let governors decide how to approach public safety measures related to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats,\u201d the president wrote. \u201cFauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a \u2019King!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"author-contact-section\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday said he sent a warning early in former President Biden\u2019s term about Dr. Anthony Fauci. \u201cI called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn\u2019t have a clue, or was dishonest,\u201d Mr. Trump said on social media. \u201cThe call was well received, but sadly, not acted on. \u201cBiden went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/07\/29\/Congress_Fauci_2999__c0-269-6442-4026_s1200x700.jpg?ecd8966c560fde1dacf742c4260fdb20aa6edacd","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}