Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lead health expert on President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, says the president listened to his initial shutdown advice.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says President Donald Trump listened to his initial recommendations to shut down the United States in an effort to slow spread of the coronavirus and that he isn’t being forced or asked to explain to the media that Trump had listened to his expert opinion then.
President Trump, 73, brought Fauci up to the podium two and a half minutes into his daily coronavirus press briefing and asked the federal health official to address the press. On Monday, Fauci asserted that he was only answering a hypothetical question and that his use of the word “pushback” was “a poor choice of words.”Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to the media on Monday during the White House’s daily coronavirus press briefing.
Trump did not answer a reporter’s question about him retweeting that somebody’s opinion to his nearly 77 million Twitter followers.The explanations from Trump and Fauci opened a a tense and hyper-defensive press briefing in which the president lashed out at reporters and chastised the media for being “fake news.”At one point, Trump paused the briefing about the pandemic to show a video compilation touting his own success and framing the media as having downplayed the virus, instead of himself.
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