DPA
Washington
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the US top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci, arguing that his predictions about how to respond to the novel coronavirus are inaccurate.
"Actually, Tony’s pitching arm is far more accurate than his prognostications. "No problem, no masks”. WHO no longer likes Lockdowns - just came out against. Trump was right. We saved 2,000,000 USA lives!!!” Trump wrote in a tweet, referencing a weak first pitch that Fauci threw during a baseball game in July.
Trump’s latest swipe at Fauci comes one day after the immunologist told CNN that he was "disappointed” that the Trump campaign used a quote from him out of context in an ad and made him appear to be endorsing Trump’s candidacy for president.
During Fauci’s five decades working in public health, he has remained non-partisan and has never endorsed a political candidate. Trump’s claim that his administration saved 2 million lives is based on a model in which the government would have taken no action against the virus at all. The coronavirus has killed over 210,000 in the US and infected millions more.
Washington
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the US top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci, arguing that his predictions about how to respond to the novel coronavirus are inaccurate.
"Actually, Tony’s pitching arm is far more accurate than his prognostications. "No problem, no masks”. WHO no longer likes Lockdowns - just came out against. Trump was right. We saved 2,000,000 USA lives!!!” Trump wrote in a tweet, referencing a weak first pitch that Fauci threw during a baseball game in July.
Trump’s latest swipe at Fauci comes one day after the immunologist told CNN that he was "disappointed” that the Trump campaign used a quote from him out of context in an ad and made him appear to be endorsing Trump’s candidacy for president.
During Fauci’s five decades working in public health, he has remained non-partisan and has never endorsed a political candidate. Trump’s claim that his administration saved 2 million lives is based on a model in which the government would have taken no action against the virus at all. The coronavirus has killed over 210,000 in the US and infected millions more.