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One thing you should know is that in Atlas's memoir, Trump repeatedly told Atlas that he did not trust what Fauci and Birx were telling him (hence why he invited Atlas to come), but he was not willing to directly stand up to them because he didn't want the media to attack him.

Both Atlas and Navarro were stuck in a situation at the White House where over and over the saw bad policies being pushed along by everyone in the administration (including Pence) and while Trump listened to them, he was muscled out by the rest of the people in his administration to not do it.

I think Trump essentially had an impossible task, but at the same time, the only way he could have made what he was in work (e.g., not following the disastrous lockdowns Trump himself was opposed to) was by sticking with his gut and firing the bad apples on the COVID-19 task force.

If he had done that, we likely would not have had the vaccine disaster we've experienced.

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