Over the years, I've hired a shitload of people. All the people I interviewed, I have not had to fire a single one of them. Of the ones I did not get to interview but was forced to hire, I have fired 5 of them. This is not confirmation bias and me refusing to fire people I interviewed. It is both discernment and management style. One gentleman was a top performer on my team. I left the organization. Within 1 year, he was fired for poor performance. Why? After I left, the only boss left in that department did not have time (nor the people skills - no knock on that guy, he was a good dude but just could not manage some types of people) to manage people properly. So this guy slowly descended into poor performance until he had to be fired. From top performer to being fired for poor performance? That's a management issue, not a person problem. I think the same of Dr. Birx: if Trump straight up told them, "Do not do hypocritical bullshit, this is a PR thing, right now", that's one thing if she did it anyway. Firing her would be the correct choice.