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email How Anthony Fauci Survived Donald Trump
The new White House chief medical adviser explains what it was really like to work for an administration that tried constantly to undermine him.
You couldn’t have blamed Anthony Fauci if at any point over the past year he’d told Donald Trump he’d had
enough, thank you, and quit. Everyone has a breaking point. There was the time the former president called him “a disaster” on a call with Trump-campaign staff. Or the day a White House official gave reporters an oppo-research-style memo claiming that Fauci had been “wrong on things” related to COVID-19. And Trump’s retweet of “Time to #FireFauci” would have been one humiliation too many for most.
Birx banished and Fauci flourishes under Biden Print this article
The fates of the two most prominent public health officials during the early days of the pandemic have diverged wildly in the early Biden administration, with Dr. Anthony Fauci more ubiquitous than ever but Dr. Deborah Birx effectively ostracized.
Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, is now the chief medical adviser to President Biden and is more prominent on television than ever. In just the past week, he s appeared on
Face the Nation and
Today to air his thoughts on the coronavirus.
After having his public speaking roles sharply limited by the Trump administration, the 80-year-old National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director has made it clear that he relishes the freedom to speak under Biden.
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Mr Trump supporters chanted “Fire Fauci”, and the president mused openly about doing so.
He was accused of inventing the virus and of being part of a secret cabal with Bill Gates and George Soros to profit from vaccines.
Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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His family received death threats. On 21 January, appearing in his first press briefing under the Biden administration, Dr Fauci described the “liberating feeling” of once again being able to “get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what the science is, and know that’s it, let the science speak .
Fauci says he feared Trump s suggestion to use disinfectant to treat COVID-19 early in the pandemic would make people start doing dangerous and foolish things
Dr Anthony Fauci gave a wide-ranging interview to CNN criticizing Donald Trump s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
He said he feared people would start doing dangerous and foolish things after Trump suggested that injecting disinfectant could treat COVID-19
The 80-year-old also said he was never worried about Trump firing him because he wasn t a presidential employee
Fauci admitted it was a good thing that the Biden administration had let go high-profile members of the COVID-19 task force, including Dr Deborah Birx