Disagreements over the White House’s handling of the pandemic are tumbling into public view. The latest tiff started when the administration's trade adviser penned an op-ed skewering Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
WASHINGTON — Infighting over the White House’s handling of the coronovirus pandemic is spilling further into public view, with trade adviser Peter Navarro panning Dr. Anthony Fauci as President Donald Trump stands watch.
Navarro “made a state statement representing himself. He shouldn’t be doing that,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for Atlanta. The president insisted he had a “very good relationship with Dr. Fauci” and said his staffers were working together. “We’re all on the same team,” Trump said. “We want to get rid of this mess that China sent us. So everybody’s working on the same line and we’re doing very well.”
“Peter Navarro’s statement or op-ed, whatever you want to classify it as, was an action that is a violation of well-established protocols that was not supported overtly or covertly by anyone in the West Wing,” Meadows told reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday evening. His “comments really just reflect Peter Navarro’s personal thinking and not the thinking of the West Wing.”
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