President Trump has terminated the federal security details Dr. Anthony Faucithe infectious disease expert who advised him About the COVID-19 Pandemie, a person who was familiar with the case on Friday.
Fauci is the last in a series of former Trump assistants who have become critics and where their federal protection is canceled despite continuous threats for their lives.
In a conversation with reporters in North Carolina, Mr. Trump said on Friday that he would not feel any responsibility if the former government officials were damaged. A person who is familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, said that Fauci’s federal security service was terminated on Thursday and that he has since hired private security.
When he was asked about Fauci and former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump said: “They all earned a lot of money. They can also hire their own security.”
For decades, Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases before retiring in 2022.
Fauci was regularly confronted with threats of his life and has been getting federal protection for years.
In one Interview with CBS News last yearFauci said that he never received “credible death threats” to the pandemic and the reaction of his office.
“No, not a credible death threats in which someone is arrested who clearly intended to kill you,” Fauci told CBS News. “And that happened at least twice. We pretend we have a virus that is the common enemy and we are fighting each other. “
Mr. Trump, a Republican, withdrawn earlier this week Protection details for former Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo and his top assistant, Brian Hook, as well as Bolton. They have all had to deal with threats from Iran since they took hard positions about the Islamic Republic during the first government of Trump and had a fight with him in the years after he left his office in 2021.
Fauci was a regular customer on the part of Trump early in the COVID-19 outbreak, but received criticism of Trump after the president tried to undermine the Public Health Guidelines.
The safety data of Bolton, Hook and Pompeo were repeatedly renewed by the Biden government due to credible and persistent threats from Iran. Fauci’s was also repeatedly extended by President Joe Biden, a Democrat, because of domestic threats.
“You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you have worked for the government,” said Trump.
Hours before he left his office on January 20, President Joe Biden preventively forgive Fauci and others he thought they could be the target of the Trump government.