Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, defended President Donald Trump on Wednesday after audio recordings revealed that the president wanted to downplay the severity of the coronavirus early in the pandemic.
Though Trump acknowledged in his Woodward interviews that he understood the severity of the disease, in subsequent public appearances, the president minimized its risks. He declined to don a face mask in public for months and often compared the disease to the flu. He encouraged opening up public spaces, and the U.S. has been an outlier among industrialized nations in the number of cases and deaths from the disease.
Fauci disputed the quotes, saying they were from second-hand sources and not from him. He also said that the internecine drama was distracting from the work the coronavirus task force was doing to fight the pandemic.
He was told to lie - I’m sure trump made sure he do as he say 🙄
This is the very man who stood on stage while some of these statements were made
I guess we no longer trust Fauci.
Hey is that Treason? His action caused many deaths plus many major problems.
Disappointed in Fauci. Told us not to wear a mask instead of telling the public the PPEs were in shortage, okay to cruise in March which puzzled me…now you’re defending for him? How concerned have you been on the public health like you claimed? Never mind the scarf woman.
maddow morningmika care to comment?
Dr. Fauci, remind us about when you made the media rounds to correct these false statements from the Pres: 1. The virus is under control in the US 2. It will disappear in the summer 3. Hydroxychloroquine is a proven cure 4. Anyone can get a test 5. 6% of the deaths are real
Has Fauci heard the Woodward tapes now?
BUT did Fauci know about the early on knowlege of the gravity of the virus the same time Trump learned it...then Fauci may be complicit? But maybe Fauci only knew what Trump told him....that dog don’t hunt.
javajuliet Who cares what Fauci has to say . That guys credibility is down to prison toilet level.
フォーチは、大統領がコロナウイルスの脅威を「歪める」ことを聞いたことを否定し、トランプの一般向けのプレゼンテーションは、彼が医療専門家と行った議論とほぼ一致していると主張した←Fauciはトランプ大統領を味方してる?どういう意味？。
Delete your account.
Woodward held onto that information from the public when action could have saved thousands day of lives!!
Trump is on tape saying it !!! For f*** sake!
No duh!
It hurt Politico to write this
It irritates me that Dems think people are stupid enough to believe all the hit jobs before election. If the left was really outraged about the deadly coronavirus, they would ban protests and riots that spread it.
Fauci finally caved ! Now leave we can’t trust you, LIAR ! You never heard trump call it a Hoax ?
Gosh that had to hurt. Believe it or not, middle America is not a bunch of brain dead idiots and nothing the MSM rolls out over the next 50+ days will not matter. We know this and WE are ready.
😑 what a crock. Come ON, Fauci. We know better.
Now the Media will hate Fauci just as much as the Right. 🤣😅😂😂🤣😅😂 how the turntables...
Suck it Woodward.
That's nice. Here's your own article on how the Trump admin dictates to Fauci what he's allowed to say.
Why do u , DrFauci , protect a man who goes maskless and holds rallies w THOUSANDS of MasklessAmericans & who passes FALSE information when you’re in surgery ?!!
Ah, that’s the Tony I knew (from the AIDS and ME/CFS wars). I couldn’t imagine he’d stay dispassionately apolitical for long.
Why? Why would you defend Trump?
This is just more blah blah blah. Only ones who give a shit about the smear stories are democrats. I wish Trump would have called the Corona hoax out as a scamdemic from the get go and never shut anything down.
No need to explain. None sense about Trump has been excreting from the mouth of the left for almost 4 years now. No one supporting Trump is listening....or cares.
Don't try to drag Tony Fauci into this despicable discussion. He needs to be the voice of science that we can trust!
jpmanzella Hearing the truth doesn’t stop the MOB DNC FakeNewsMediaClowns
I doubt he heard it was a hoax or not to wear masks from Dr. Fauci. I hope he doesn’t cave to Trump. He’ll lose all credibility.
Keep in mind that fauci has had to hire security because of threats of violence against him and his family.
No big deal! He can now hear it on tape!
Wait.. what?
Valiant effort Deep Throat. Good luck with the book sales. 👎
has he been hit on the head....did he not hear the president say it's a Hoax...how much more distortion is there.
Just because he didn’t hear it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. We have all heard the tapes. ImpeachTrumpAgain
RexChapman 👀👆
Maybe it’s time to recognize your job is to protect the American people.....not the president!!!
Fauci needs to stop defending Trump with these wishy-washy deflections. It’s too late to reclaim to your honor after he’s gone.
That’s okay we heard it for ourselves.
Did Fauci not listen to Trump speak at briefings? He said COVID wasn’t any worse than the flu, when he knew it was.
As with his statements about veterans, it simply doesn’t matter that there are some people who didn’t hear the comments in question. The fact is that there are other people who *did*. See also: tape recording.
Now Fauci is trying to save this lunatic. Okay no thanks
TracyeHutchins fauci
Really? Did 'medical experts' say it was just going to magically go away? I don't think so.
So comparing it to the regular flu was in line with experts? Come on.
Bull. TrumpKnew
President Trump acknowledged the “deadly” nature of the coronavirus earlier this year in a series of recorded interviews, even as the White House sought to dismiss the disease’s threat to Americans amid its initial outbreak across the U.S.
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