[COVID-19\Dr. Anthony Fauci]Asked how he responds to falsehoods from the President during press conferences, Fauci said, “I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down.”
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Dr. Fauci on Trump: “I can’t just jump in front of the microphone and push him down.”
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, described the challenges of working with the Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic in an interview with the journal Science published Sunday.
Asked how he responds to falsehoods from the President during press conferences, Fauci said, “I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down,” according to the interview.
“OK, he said it. Let’s try and get it corrected for the next time,” Fauci said.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci has advised six presidents and has played a central role in the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force.
“I’m sort of exhausted,” Fauci said in the interview. “But other than that, I’m good. I mean, I’m not, to my knowledge, coronavirus infected. To my knowledge, I haven’t been fired.“
While Fauci said he and the President “disagree on some things,” he described Trump as responsive: “He goes his own way. He has his own style. But on substantive issues, he does listen to what I say.”
Fauci was specifically asked about some of Trump’s comments, including his assertion that China should have told US officials about the coronavirus three months sooner. That would have been around September, and there is no evidence Chinese officials were aware of the virus at that time.
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