Fauci says Navarro's op-ed was "a major mistake" by the White House

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said the USA Today op-ed that was written by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was “a major mistake on their part.”

Speaking to The Atlantic Council on Wednesday, Fauci said, “I think if you sit down and talk to the people who are involved in that list that came out, they are really, I think, taken aback by what a big mistake that was.”

“If you talk to reasonable people in the White House, they realize that was a major mistake on their part, because it doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them,” he said.

The op-ed did not go through the normal sign-off process of being edited and approved by the White House press office, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-15-20-intl/index.html

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Somebody’s going to have an irresistible urge to tweet...

[Mike 03]

1. It was also a major mistake by USA Today.

I'm happy Dr. Fauci is being so direct. It's infuriating that he's having to suffer these attacks.

[VWolf]

2. "If you talk to reasonable people in the White House"

And who might they be, at this point???

[still_one]

3. The janitors, cooks and people that keep the WH going

[stopdiggin]

5. I liked the quote

regarding the WH from yesterday
"We're down to Kool-aid drinkers and offspring .."

[Skittles]

9. Acosta is correct

the only people left are "Kool-aid drinkers and kin"

[bullwinkle428]

4. Let's not make any mistakes here - no one is "freelancing", or "going rogue". This is all

directed above from "Big Daddy", where he points at given members of his "orbit", and orders them to go out and do his dirty work, so it appears that no blood is on his hands. The very same way he attacked Tammy Duckworth last week, by getting Tucker Carlson to do it on his TV show.

[Canoe52]

6. Fauci is way more polite than I would have been!

[NonPC]

7. No Mistake

There was no mistake. Trump told him to go out there and do it. He's waiting to see how it plays before either praising Navarro or firing him. The other posters are right -- nobody does nothing without the Chief Moron's permission. Navarro has been worthless on China negotiations, so Trump figures he has nothing to lose by using Navarro as a test dummy.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

this was all calculated