President Trump canceled the security protection funded by the government of Dr Anthony S. Fauci on Thursday evening. The decision made Dr Fauci, who received death threats during the coronavirus pandemic, the last former eminent manager to lose his security details since Trump returned to the White House.
“You cannot always have it,” Trump said on a trip to North Carolina on Friday.
A person familiar with the situation said that Dr Fauci, who retired from the government service in December 2022, hired his own security details.
Dr. Fauci, one of the best health officials in the country for decades and former director of the National Institute for Infectious Allergies and Diseases, has become a frequent target of conservative criticisms during the Pandemic COVID-19. In May 2022, a man from Virginia-Western pleaded guilty to his dispatch as well as other federal officials who threatened to kill them as well as to their families.
Dr Fauci had no protection of secret services; He was protected by federal marshals, then by a private entrepreneur whose fees were paid by the government, said the person.
Dr Fauci’s main criticism on Capitol Hill, Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky republican, had publicly called his security agreement.
Thursday, Mr. Paul wrote on social networks that he had “sent supporting information to end the Limousine and Security retailers per day for Fauci”, adding: “I only wish him peace but he has to pay his own limous. “
These comments occurred a few hours after Mr. Paul criticized President Joe Biden for Dr Fauci during an appearance on Fox News, claiming that forgiveness that Dr Fauci “accepted his guilt”.
Mr. Trump’s decision on Dr Fauci’s security occurred one day after revoking details of the security of the State Department for his former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and another former assistant, Brian Hook. The two men faced Iran’s current threats because of the actions they took on behalf of Mr. Trump in his first administration.
Trump also pulled the details of the secret services that protected another former assistant who later became a high -level critic, John R. Bolton, his former national security advisor.
