Donald Trump Praises Operation Warp Speed Amid Fauci Testimony

Donald Trump praised Operation Warp Speed as a spectacular success in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. He characterized the public-private vaccine partnership as one of the most successful achievements of any American president and claimed that more COVID-19 deaths occurred under the Biden administration.

These remarks coincided with testimony by Anthony Fauci before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The hearing was prompted by the release of Fauci's private diary entries. During his social media posts, Trump criticized Fauci, alleging that he overrode the doctor's ideas and disagreed with him regarding the virus's origin at the Wuhan Laboratory in China.

Trump further claimed that he ignored Fauci's requests to shut down the country and described the doctor's ideas as crazy.