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(WND News Center) Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s health adviser who was at a salary just short of half a million dollars a year before retiring on a pension estimated at $350,000 per annum, had collected some $15 million in special security benefits since he left government.
But no more.
Reports confirm that in addition to his salary he made millions selling his behind-the-scenes stories, and was handed a free presidential pardon from Biden.
But now President Donald Trump has ended Secret Service protection for the retired American citizen.
“When you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off. You can’t have them forever, so I think it’s very standard,” Trump explained.
The president pointed out he dropped special protections for some others as well.
“You can’t have security detail for the rest of your life because you work for the government,” he explained.
🚨🔥HOLY SMOKES: Trump SCORCHES Fauci and Bolton after revoking their security details, dismisses responsibility if anything happens:
“They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security. I would not take responsibility.”
pic.twitter.com/yDxNRGGelt— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 24, 2025
A reported asked if he would feel responsible if “something were to happen” to Fauci and Trump said ‘no.”
“They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.”
Part of the history of the two is that Fauci claimed in a book that Trump screamed at him when both were in office and the COVID-19 China virus arrived in America.
Fox News reported the National Institutes of Health had asked for security for Fauci in 2020 to protect him from threats he received during COVID.
Fauci had been given the special security detail and a limousine service even after he left government, based on the claims there still were threats.
In fact, Trump said he’d provide contacts for private security if Fauci felt he wanted to set that up himself.
Fauci was head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022.
He was accused by members of Congress of funding the “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China, that likely unleashed the COVID-19 virus. In fact, there were federal grants that went to a private organization that in turn supported the Wuhan work.
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