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arcade file. Andrew Kaczynski went back and he found DeSantis saying some very different things about Fauci. Here's DeSantis in March of 2020. And you have a lot of people there who are working very, very hard and they're not getting a lot of sleep and they're really focusing on a big country that we have. And from Dr. Birx to Dr. Fauci to the vice president who's worked very hard, the surgeon general, they're really doing a good job. All right. So Kay Fauz, Andrew Kaczynski as advertisers now out front. So Andrew, I just played one example of DeSantis praising Fauci, obviously very early on in the pandemic. You found that that is far from the only time that DeSantis praised the man, but he now bashes regularly. Yeah, that's right. It's more than one example. It's actually 10 examples at least that we found in which he either cited or praised Dr. Fauci. And what's interesting about this is he's citing him to put in place those policies early in the pandemic in Florida that he now criticizes as lockdowns. His campaign, Aaron, they've been criticizing Trump. They've been saying Trump supports lockdowns because he advocated those exact same policies at the same time as DeSantis. And this isn't some K-file hit in which the team is pulling something from 30 years ago. This was three years ago. We all remember Donald Trump very early on was calling in April and May to end those lockdowns. Right. I remember the churches were going to be open from Easter. Exactly. And he criticized Fauci earlier than DeSantis did too. He was retweeting calls to fire Fauci in April. He had some of his staff over the summer had some very direct hits on Fauci. He criticized Fauci about opening schools. Take a listen to these comments from DeSantis at some of those early Florida press briefings. The president's task force has been great. I mean, you call, you know, we've talked to Dr. Fauci number of times, talked to, you know, the surgeon, U.S. Surgeon General number of times, BP. You know, they've been really, really good and really, really helpful. I would defer to people like Dr. Fauci. I think Dr. Fauci has said nationwide you're looking at six to eight weeks of where we're really going to be having to dig in here. And you say there were at least 10 of those and if he continued to do that, even as Trump had turned on Fauci. So Trump turned first. Yeah, Trump turns on Fauci pretty, I mean, it was honestly, we all remember because we were there, there was sort of the height of the pandemic, especially here in New York City. And Trump is criticizing Fauci early spring and May right around that time.

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