Trump retweet Fire Fauci hashtag hits head

• Trump retweeted #FireFauci after the top immunologist said lives would have been saved if the president followed his advice to shut down the US in February
• The nation's best immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Donald Trump had previously locked the nation
• "There were a lot of setbacks back then to turn things off," said Fauci
• Trump issued guidelines for social distancing and blocked the US in mid-March
• But Trump allegedly knew about the virus threat long before its closure
• On Sunday evening, Trump dug Fauci by retweeting #FireFauci
• The president not only retweeted the hashtag, but also added his own comment: “Sorry fake news, all on tape. I banned China long before people came forward. '
• In another tweet on Sunday evening, the president claimed that health minister Alex Azar warned him about the virus only after flights from China were banned
• An elite group of medical experts also said they have raised the alarm about coronavirus since January and discussed the threat in the Red Dawn email chain
• Trump informed the governors on Sunday that it was their responsibility to "perfect" the corona virus tests.
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Donald Trump hit Dr. Anthony Fauci by retweeting a #FireFauci hashtag after the country's best immunologist said his recommendation to shut down the US in February was ignored.

The president also wrote that he apparently banned flights from China "long before people spoke", apparently in response to the criticism.

Trump retweeted a post from former congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine, who wrote: “Fauci now says that if Trump had listened to the medical experts earlier, he could have saved more lives.

'Fauci told people on February 29 that there is no need to worry and that this is not a threat to the US public as a whole. Time for #FireFauci. '

In a second tweet, Trump pounded the New York Times for an article published in the newspaper on Saturday, claiming that the president had repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus and had been warned several times about it by senior White House officials.

"The @nytimes story is fake, just like the" paper "itself. I was criticized for moving too quickly when I passed the China ban long before most others wanted to," Trump tweeted.

The President then wrote: '' @SecAzar said nothing to me until later, and Peter Navarro Memo was the same as Ban (see his statements). Fake news! 'the president added.

Trump said Health Minister Alex Azar only warned him after he banned China in late January.

However, it was reported that Azar taught him on January 18 while the president was in his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida - but Trump kept interrupting him because he was more interested in vaping.

Trump also said he imposed the China ban after White House senior adviser Peter Navarro issued a memo in January detailing how bad the pandemic would be.

But he didn't mention a second memo that Navarro released in February that painted an even worse picture. Trump has been accused of not taking this seriously.

On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a global health emergency while Trump held a rally in Iowa.

The next day, the Trump administration banned foreign nationals who had traveled to China in the past 14 days to enter the United States, with the exception of immediate family members of American citizens or permanent residents.

Trump called it a bold move, but continued to talk about the severity of the threat. Despite the ban, according to an analysis by the New York Times, nearly 40,000 people have flown direct flights from China to the United States since that date.

The President's excavation in Fauci took place just hours after the doctor suggested on Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Trump had initiated a corona virus shutdown before mid-March.

Fauci said more could have been done, which may have slowed the spread and reduced the impact of the US coronavirus outbreak.

"Of course, you could logically say that if you had an ongoing lawsuit and started mitigation earlier, you could of course have saved lives," Fauci told CNN's State of the Union.

"Nobody will deny that," he continued, adding, "there were a lot of setbacks to shutting things down at the time."

There are several reports that intelligence officials have told the White House that a virus threat is already coming from China in November, indicating that the president knew about coronavirus earlier than he allowed it.

"You know, Jake, as I've said many times, we look at it from a purely health perspective," said Fauci to CNN's Jake Tapper. 'We make a recommendation. The recommendation is often accepted. Sometimes it is not. '

"But it is what it is," he continued. "We are where we are right now."