During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump stated that he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci aHost Megyn Kelly said, “For years, you’ve been saying that the reason you didn’t fire Anthony Fauci was because he’d been there for a long time, that you would’ve taken heat, that it would’ve created a firestorm, quoting your words. Then, for the first time in May –.
Trump responded, “I don’t know who gave him the commendation. I really don’t know who gave him the commendation. I wouldn’t have done it.”Trump responded, “Someone probably handed him a commendation. He probably — but let me just tell you about Fauci, Fauci was very important in the Biden administration, much less important — if you know, he didn’t want to stop China. He wanted to let everyone come in from China. I stopped it. I overrode it. I overrode many of the things he did.
Kelly then asked, “Wouldn’t you like to go back and try to clip his wings? This guy was pushing mask mandates on us. He wanted the most extreme measure at every turn.” Trump responded, “Okay, look, I’m not one that blames a system that if you’re civil service or if you have some other protection, that you can’t get fired because I’ve done things that are a lot worse than that. … I fired a lot of people. I fired Comey, and that was one of the great firings. I fired Comey and then I fired a lot of other people in the FBI, and they were great firings because the deep state — and they were at work and they were not good people. But I was not a big fan of Fauci.