“I think,” Kushner continued, “that for five years”—since Trump started to run—“he basically was on offense. And then for four and a half months”—since the virus exploded—“he was on defense. And the goal is to get him back to offense.” The offense soon appeared. First, the White House released a document listing the number of times Fauci had been wrong in his predictions about Covid-19, a highly unusual and, from a health point of view, irresponsible effort to undermine the chief of infectious diseases. Fauci had privately acknowledged he was not by any means always correct. But polling showed
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