The retweet came hours after Fauci suggested earlier action could have saved lives from COVID-19.
President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a message from a supporter criticizing infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leaders of the White House coronavirus response. The tweet was part of a flurry of messages Trump fired off on Sunday, many of which attacked the media:
Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN https://t.co/d40JQkUZg5The message refers to a CNN interview on Sunday in which Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked about a report that his team pushed for earlier social distancing measures, but was rejected by the White House.
I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. Trump last month said he and Fauci “get along very well,” and called the highly respected infectious diseases specialist “extraordinary.” “The president has listened to what I have said and ... what the other people on the task force have said,” Fauci said in a radio interview last month. “When I made recommendations, he’s taken them. He’s never countered or overridden me.”
Trump’s Sunday message ― part of an Easter tweetstorm attacking the media including Fox News host Chris Wallace ― could signal that the president is fed up with the expert.This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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