Tony's Diary Package — page 780

300,000/600,000 2016. And Trump wasn't invited to speak at the grandfather's funeral as presidents traditionally do. If George P. Bush's name had been George P. Jones, his political rise undoubtedly would have been less smooth. But now he's shocking a lot of Bush family admirers in his quest to receive a pat on the head from Trump -- or at least not a swat. Sure, a lot of Texas Republican primary voters worship Trump, but is winning a nomination for state office worth losing one's honor? It's a guarantee that Fauci would not kiss the rear end of anyone who insulted his family. What we have here is a short guy from Brooklyn basically brushing off Trump's menacing antics while swaggering Texas Republicans collapse at the sign of a New Yorker's displeasure. And there's one other reason for Trump's continued obsession with Fauci: envy. Trump is fading from national prominence. Even Fox News no longer carries all his speeches live. But Fauci goes on. He's still respected by the sort of people whose respect serious leaders want. His polls numbers remain high. As the virus threat recedes, not every pronouncement Fauci makes will grab headlines, but he's not there for that. He's there to do the science. The rightwing attacks on him can't be pleasant, but Fauci will end his long career with a legacy of public service and, importantly, his dignity intact. June 18, 2021 - Global - 177,000,000/3,800,000; USA - 33,300,000/600,000 Received important e-mail with attachment from Jesse Bloom: Hi Francis, Stephen, and Toni, I'm just writing to give you a heads up that I identified a data set of early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 sequences that has been deleted from the NIH's Sequence Read Archive (SRA). I was able to recover the deleted