Trump Obliterates Fauci As A ‘Disaster’ During Campaign Call

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President Donald Trump spoke out on Monday to blast Dr. Anthony Fauci during a campaign call, describing him as a “nice guy” who is also a “disaster.”

He added that the American people are sick of hearing about COVID-19.

Trump Obliterates Fauci

“People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies,” Trump said on the call, according to CNN. “People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots … Fauci is a nice guy. He’s been here for 500 years.”

“Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” the president added, going on to say it would be 700,000 or 800,000. “If there’s a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn’t care less.”

New York Post Washington correspondent Ebony Bowden claimed that Trump had also said that firing Fauci would be a bombshell story, and that he appeared to suggest that doing so before the election would be a bad idea.

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Fauci Lets Loose On ’60 Minutes’

This came after Fauci went on “60 Minutes” over the weekend and said that he was “absolutely not” surprised that Trump contracted coronavirus. He added that he had been worried as he watched the September  26.

Rose Garden event announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, as he immediately noticed that there was “almost nobody wearing a mask.”

“‘Oh my goodness. Nothing good can come outta that, that’s gotta be a problem.’ And then sure enough, it turned out to be a superspreader event,” Fauci said.

Not stoping there, Fauci claimed that Trump had restricted his media appearances, and blasted the president for using his remarks in a television add, claiming that his comments were taken out of context.

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Fauci Admits He Was Wrong

Fauci then admitted that he was wrong back in March when he said that there was “no reason to be walking around with a mask,” as he now believes that “masks really do work in preventing infection.”

“When you find out you’re wrong, it’s a manifestation of your honesty to say, ‘Hey, I was wrong. I did subsequent experiments and now it’s this way,'” Fauci said.

However, he also said that he is opposed to putting another national lockdown in place.

“The country is fatigued with restrictions,” Fauci said. “So we wanna use public health measures not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy.”

This piece was written by James Samson on October 19, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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