President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled despite ongoing threats to their lives.
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he wouldn’t feel any responsibility if harm befell the former government officials. A person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, said that Fauci’s federal security detail was ended on Thursday and that he has since hired private security.
When asked about Fauci and former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump said, “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.”
Trump, a Republican, earlier this week revoked protection details for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, as well as Bolton. All have faced threats from Iran since they took hard-line stances on the Islamic Republic during Trump’s first administration and fell out with him in the years after he left office in 2021.
Fauci was a regular at Trump’s side early in the COVID-19 outbreak but grew critical of Trump after the president tried to undermine public health guidance. Fauci faced regular threats to his life and has received federal protection for years.
Bolton, Hook and Pompeo had their security details repeatedly renewed by the Biden administration because of credible and ongoing threats from Iran. Fauci’s was also repeatedly renewed 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 worked for government,” Trump said.
(AP)
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Fauci literally started COVID!
The guy is a MASS MURDERER, the likes of Stalin and Mao Zedong
If the threats come to your life because of the work you did for government you should have a security detail from government as long as those threats still exist. Is that something so hard for yellow man to understand
What AP drivel; “after the president tried to undermine public health guidance”. Like all the fake science that Fauci & good co-conspirators fabricated, madking, 6 fee, house arrest, etc.
I have no sympathy for Dr. Mengele Fauci who unleashed the covid 19 pandemic on the world and is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 20 million people!
lbj; The threats are coming to his life because of his violation of the laws of the government that he worked for. Gain of function research was banned, yet he illegally sent NIH funds to the lab in Wuhan, China to do such research, and was pardoned for his mass murdering crimes by your hero, the evil Joe Biden and his puppet masters.