The White House is seeking to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, as President Trump works to marginalize him and his dire warnings about the shortcomings in the U.S. coronavirus response
As physicians and scientists have learned more about the novel coronavirus, the medical consensus on how to treat the virus and limit its spread has evolved — and not just in the U.S. Many of Fauci's assertions called into question by the White House official were based on the best available data at the time and were widely echoed by Trump, other members of the task force and senior White House officials.
The White House on Sunday declined to provide further comment about Fauci. But the signs of the White House's displeasure with Fauci's grim public assessments have been mounting. On Thursday, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany declined to say whether Trump still has confidence in Fauci, and the president himself said of Fauci that same day:"He’s made a lot of mistakes."
The attempt to discredit Fauci comes amid signs of growing tensions between Fauci and the president. Fauci said last week he hadn’t seen Trump in personFauci, who has served in the federal government for decades, can't be directly fired by the president, and there were no signs that Trump was seeking to get rid of him altogether.
A New York Times/Sienna College poll in mid-June found that 2 in 3 registered voters approved of Fauci, including half of Republicans and 4 in 5 Democrats. Trump, by comparison, enjoyed support from only 1 in 4 voters in that same poll, including just 4 percent of Democrats.
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