From the 3/23 New York Times article:
President Trump has praised Dr. Anthony S. Fauci as a “major television star.” [Major reveal into the mind of a president with the emotional development of a 6 year old.) He has tried to demonstrate that the administration is giving him free rein to speak. And he has deferred to Dr. Fauci’s opinion several times at the coronavirus task force’s televised briefings. But Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, has grown bolder in correcting the president’s falsehoods and overly rosy statements about the spread of the coronavirus in the past two weeks — and he has become a hero to the president’s critics because of it. And now, Mr. Trump’s patience has started to wear thin.
July 24, 2017
Yet the administration’s effort to remove experts from government has gone beyond reassigning troublesome officials. Government agencies depend on advice from scientific advisory boards made up of academic researchers. These boards have been a central target for the administration. In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency fired half of the members of an 18-person scientific advisory board that reviews the soundness of the agency’s research methodology. A week later, the Interior Department announced that it would suspend the operations of 200 of its advisory panels.
March 20, 2020
Intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January,” said a U.S. official who had access to intelligence reporting that was disseminated to members of Congress and their staffs as well as to officials in the Trump administration, and who, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.
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