Donald Trump Jr. slams 'incompetent' Fauci, claims he's 'not a scientist'

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Donald Trump Jr. slams 'incompetent' Fauci, claims he's 'not a scientist'
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While Fauci advised against the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, several recent studies have re-examined the drug's use for that purpose.

"This guy's not a scientist, he's a bureaucrat in a lab coat—nothing more, nothing less," Trump Jr. said."He's incompetent. He was in government because he probably couldn't have made it in the private sector."

Fauci has an extensive research portfolio on infectious diseases. He has advised seven U.S. presidents and has worked on over 1,300 scientific publications, according to the website for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . Fauci oversees the NIAID.Scholar citations. Between 1980 and January 2021, Fauci was the 9th most-cited researcher out of 2.5 million immunology authors, according to Web of Science.

Donald Trump, Jr., the son of Republican former President Donald Trump, has called national infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci"incompetent" and"not a scientist." In this photo, Trump, Jr. addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference being held in the Hyatt Regency on February 26, 2021 in Orlando, Florida.During their interview, Boothe asked Trump Jr. about the media's treatment of his father during the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump Jr. told Boothe that the media is a form of"political entertainment" that"has blood on [its] hands." He then claimed that Fauci's

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