President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
Since his security detail was pulled, Fauci has hired his own personal security, the source told CNN. Trump addressed the report Friday, saying that officials who once served in the government can’t have security detail “forever.”
“I think you know when you work for govern, government, at some point your security detail comes off. And, you know, you can’t have them forever. So I think it’s very standard, if it would be for somebody else, who wouldn’t be asking the question. Question is very fair,” Trump said when asked to comment on the report. “But, you know, you work for government, we took some off other people too, but you can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because…
