Photo: Alamy
Peter Navarro, a former advisor in the Trump administration, went to bat for the 45th president in an interview this week with Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast. He told Bet-David that Trump was “lied to” by then-White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma executives about the true makeup of the Covid vaccine.
The Covid vaccines have become a highly contentious topic among the conservative base in America as troubling reports of adverse side effects have emerged in the wake of their introduction into the U.S. and global medical system.
As reported by RSBN, a public opinion poll from Rasmussen in January 2023 revealed that 26 percent of Republicans indicated that they knew someone whom they believed may have died from complications related to the Covid vaccine, while 33 percent of Democrats indicated the same.
Shortly after Trump left the White House in 2021, the president seemed to indicate his own skepticism of the shots when he told One America News, “A lot of people feel differently about vaccines and I think mandates are terrible and I think giving it to young kids are terrible.”
Navarro recounted dealing with Fauci in 2020 during the Trump administration, noting that his impression of the former medical advisor was, “this dude thinks he’s a whole lot smarter than he is and he’s an arrogant son of a b****.”
He also said that Fauci knew that the Covid virus came from a Wuhan lab leak “because he had funded the gain of function research from that lab, and we know that from the emails he sent to a group of researchers and academics, trying to get their support to push that ‘come from nature’ theory.”
He added, “We could have pressured the Chinese to give us the genome sequence which would have allowed us to design an effective vaccine rather than the crap we wound up getting.”
Navarro emphasized, “And again Trump got lied to about that, not just by Fauci, but by Pfizer, the drug company.”
“In what way?” Bet-David pressed.
“They didn’t disclose the side effects of that,” Navarro responded. “And they weren’t clear with him – they made him think that it was a true vaccine when it’s not.”