COMMENTARY | MARK SHANAHAN
Why does President Trump go after Dr. Fauci?
A week after mocking “Tony’s pitching arm” in a tweet, Trump, apparently upset about Fauci’s appearance Sunday on “60 Minutes,” renewed his attacks on the good doctor Monday.

It would seem unwise, picking this fight with Fauci — so close to Election Day — instead of using the waning days of his teetering reelection campaign to, say, reassure worried voters, or shore up his slipping support in once-red states like Georgia, or, better yet, do his actual job and wrestle a pandemic relief bill into law.

But there’s always a Trumpian logic to the president’s Twitter explosions.

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