So normally Trump seems very content to stand back and give the bad guys plenty of rope to hang themselves with, but this guy was reassigned. After being fired/reassigned, he filed a whistleblower complaint:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bright-whistleblower.pdf

Recently he received a settlement:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210816132804/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/us-settles-with-trump-admin-whistleblower-who-exposed-botched-covid-response/

So he seemed very particular about blocking HCQ. I'm thinking there must have been something specific he wanted to block that was too critical to just let go. Or perhaps his firing was just a message, a way to draw attention to HCQ? Maybe a way to draw attention to Bright and something in his history?

Any Bright theorists have some fun facts to share?

"Specifically, as detailed in the attached emails and other documentary evidence , Dr. Bright opposed the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as lacking scientific merit, even though the Administration promoted it as a panacea and demanded that New York and New Jersey be “ flooded ” with these drugs, which were imported from factories in Pakistan India that had not been inspected by the FDA."