(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) COVID Czar Anthony Fauci has made a statement saying he will likely be stepping down from his leadership positions by 2024, marking yet another backtrack and switch of positions from the fickle medical bureaucrat.
Fauci made the announcement during an interview with Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto when asked if he would continue serving in the government if former President Donald Trump were to regain power, the New York Post reported.
“Well, I’m not going to get involved in any politics about who is or is not going in the White House,” he said.
“By the way, by the time that happens, I think I won’t be around, no matter who the president is,” he added.
Fauci is currently serving as the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, as well as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The anchor asked if this meant he is “done.”
“No, I’m not done yet,” Fauci responded, chuckling. “But you’re talking about a few years from now. And I don’t foresee that I will be doing this a few years from now.”
“So, no matter who is president,” Cavuto asked, “whether it’s Joe Biden getting reelected or someone else, Donald Trump or anyone else, you would not continue?”
“That’s exactly correct,” Fauci said. “I have been doing this now for 38 years. It will be over 40 years if I wait that long.”
The 81-year-old has been the director if NIAID since 1984, and has advised seven presidents going back to Ronald Reagan.
He has previously said that if Trump were to return to office, he would not remain in the position of chief medical advisor.
Fauci has also previously stated that he would not be stepping down until the U.S. is “really out” of the pandemic.
Many of his public statements concerning COVID make it seem as if the pandemic will stretch on for quite some time, with the possible implementation of an annual vaccination against the virus.
