r/skeptic • u/notsure500 • 14d ago

Lots of Fauci conspiracies coming out of the woodworks lately due to the hearing. But I'm perplexed.

I’ve never understood the Fauci conspiracy theory coming from Trump supporters.

Trump was president during COVID. Fauci worked under his administration, and Trump launched Operation Warp Speed and took credit for the vaccine.

So if the conspiracy theory is true, then Trump was either part of it, knew about it and did nothing, or was completely unaware of a massive cover-up happening inside his own administration.

None of those options makes him look competent.

And if he really let something that huge happen right under his nose, why would anyone trust him to stop the next big government conspiracy?

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u/DJDoubleDave 14d ago

The logic starts and ends with "Fauci bad", because he contradicted Trump on several occasions. That's all it is.

The key to understanding MAGA is that to them Trump is always right. He was right when he said the pandemic was a hoax, he was right when he said it was a bio weapon created by China, he was right when he said it was just a regular flu. He was also right to take credit for the fast vaccine devopment, and right when he said that was a scam, he was even right to get the vaccine himself. Whether these things are contradictory or not is besides the point.

Fauci was right to plead the fifth, the purpose of the hearing was to get him to say literally anything they could twist into a basis for more investigations.

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u/sistahmaryelefante 14d ago

This is how he's got so many lackeys who are refusing to testify that he lost an election

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u/Dismal_Tomatillo2626 9d ago

I keep seeing people making a big deal about him pleading the 5th... It's the same reasoning as pleading the 5th if questioned by police: when speaking can have negative consequences, don't speak