Assuming that the narrative is accurate, it raises the following questions:
- WHO LEAKED THE INFORMATION?: Dr. Fauci is the only person who comes out looking good, and he has plenty of motive, so the initial reaction is that it must have been him. The article preemptively tells us that he didn’t speak to the authors, however. I’m guess that it was a friend or associate of his.
- IS BIRX TO BLAME?: Her models clearly played an important role in this farce, but they assumed that Trump and the other politicians would behave responsibly and stay the course. Garbage in, garbage out.
- IS TRUMP THE ONE PRIMARILY AT FAULT?: Leave aside the fact that he is ultimately responsible for his own government, and that he repeatedly undercut the message by encouraging irresponsibility. As with the Russian bounty story, the real problem here is that the people around him have learned not to tell him things he doesn’t want to hear in order to maintain their influence. That’s a real danger for our country. If you don’t believe it, just show me where the WMD were in Iraq.