<p>Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) made it clear once again that he had no use for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who still serves as President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical advisor.</p>
<p>DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Lapado joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham for a town hall event that aired on Thursday evening, and neither had anything nice to say about Fauci — particularly with regard to his recent comments about COVID-19.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">DeSantis wants to give Fauci the boot. <a href="https://t.co/bXFzz9mWwR">pic.twitter.com/bXFzz9mWwR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1520077197762957312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Anthony Fauci, he&#8217;s a deity to the Democrats,&#8221; Ingraham began, directing the question to Lapado first. &#8220;But even god is having trouble kind of getting his story straight on whether the pandemic is mostly over or not. Your response to the latest flip-flop by the great doctor.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s funny you bring that up, Laura, because I was reading that today,&#8221; Lapado replied. &#8220;It was — it&#8217;s over, yesterday I think. Today, oh, it&#8217;s still on, you know, and we&#8217;ll see what tomorrow brings. But this is really the kind of inconsistency that has really fueled the distrust for public health officials — and it is well-earned and well-deserved.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lapado was referring to several interviews Fauci gave earlier in the week — specifically when he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fauci-says-the-pandemic-phase-is-over-but-its-still-too-risky-for-him-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner/">told</a> PBS &#8220;Newshour&#8221; host Judy Woodruff that the United States was &#8220;out of the pandemic phase&#8221; only to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fauci-pandemic-phase-of-covid-19-over-fauci-no-it-isnt/">say a day later</a> that the pandemic was certainly not over telling The Washington Post, &#8220;The world is still in a pandemic. There’s no doubt about that. Don’t anybody get any misinterpretation of that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lapado went on to say that the inconsistencies also included the officials&#8217; waffling position on masking – particularly their insistence that people continue to wear them despite multiple assessments suggesting they were <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-medical-expert-doubles-down-that-cloth-masks-were-never-appropriate-for-covid-19/">not effective</a>.</p>
<p>Ingraham pivoted to DeSantis then, noting that President Biden was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner-possibly-wear-mask-fauci-to-skip/">planning to attend</a> the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner in spite of a spate of cases of COVID-19 in vaccinated and boosted individuals — and DeSantis pointed out the irony of Biden&#8217;s administration simultaneously <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-admin-to-appeal-court-decision-that-ruled-mask-mandate-on-airplanes-was-unlawful/">fighting in court</a> to reinstate the mask mandate for air travel.</p>
<p>DeSantis then interrupted Ingraham&#8217;s line of questioning to announce that Lapado was the &#8220;Anti-Fauci.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I tell him, &#8216;You know what? I don&#8217;t always see what you do day to day, but if you&#8217;re being attacked by NBC and CNN, I know you&#8217;re doing a helluva job,'&#8221; DeSantis said, and the audience cheered and applauded.</p>
<p>Ingraham concluded the segment with one more question for DeSantis: &#8220;Will they ever retire Dr. Fauci?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You know — If I had my druthers, you know, you take him and you chuck him across the Potomac,&#8221; DeSantis said — and the audience roared again.</p>

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