Unfortunately, Dr. Anthony Fauci appears to have now joined the likes of Birx, Redfield, Hahn, et al., as an apologist willing to provide political cover for Trump. In an interview today on Fox News ( a notorious and frequent purveyor of false information about COVID-19), Fauci made the following, incredible, assertion:
Speaking with Fox News’ John Roberts, Fauci denied that he ever heard the president “distort” the threat of the coronavirus and maintained that Trump’s presentations to the public were largely in line with discussions he’d had with medical experts. When asked whether he ever felt Trump was downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, Fauci said no.
www.politico.com/…
Fauci’s statement on Fox is disingenuous and demonstrably false, as anyone who has followed the news since February knows. The list of misleading statements, and outright lies, uttered by Trump about COVID-19 is voluminous and well documented. Those lies and misstatements have done great harm to the public health, and undoubtedly contributed to thousands of unnecessary deaths. On August 30, The Atlantic published a comprehensive list of Trump’s lies about COVID-19, which Fauci now pretends did not occur. www.theatlantic.com/...
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Thursday, Sep 10, 2020 · 3:17:22 PM +00:00 · HardTimes
UPDATE — To those who have misleadingly claimed that Fauci’s comments on Fox referred only to Trump’s private discussions with Fauci, note that Fauci specifically said (falsely) that Trump’s public (not private) statements about the virus were consistent with the information that Trump had been given by the medical experts.
"I didn't see any discrepancies between what he [Trump] told us and what we told him and what he ultimately came out publicly and said,"
