Looks like Dr. Fauci is doing a total 180 about the very same comments he publicly shared about Trump and his own thoughts on how he handled things. According to Monday ‘s press briefing, Fauci has now claimed that his words could’ve been said differently and in no way was criticising Trump.
“I just thought it would be very nice for me to clarify,” Fauci said at the White House press conference, sharing a stage with Trump on Monday.
“When people discuss — not necessarily in front of the president — people discuss, they say, ‘Well you know, this is gonna have maybe a harmful effect on this or on that’. So it was a poor choice of words. There wasn’t anybody saying, ‘No, you shouldn’t do that’, ” Fauci said.
Fauci then added in reference to the fact that he and Dr. Birx on two occasions reportedly approached Trump recommending restrictions.
“The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a ‘shut down’ in the sense of not really a shut down but to really have strong mitigation. We discussed it, obviously there would be concern by some that, in fact, there might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation,” Fauci said.
Fauci added: “The next second time that I went with Dr. Birx into the president and said, ’15 days are not enough. We need to go 30 days.’ … the president went with the health recommendations and we extended it another 30 days.”
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