Trump Goes After Fauci 'People Are Tired of Hearing Fauci, These Idiots,' Tries To Buck Up Campaign
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'As Pandemic Surges in US, Trump Says 'People Are Tired of Hearing Fauci and All These Idiots.' "People are tired of a science-denying president that has allowed over 218,000 people to die from Covid," responded Rep. Mark Pocan. By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Oct. 19, 2020.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, & Trump participate in the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on April 22, 2020 in Wash., D.C.
Hours after bragging about his persistent refusal to listen to scientists when it comes to fighting the deadly coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials, saying during a call with his campaign staff that "people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots."
"If we'd listened to [Fauci], we'd have 700,000 [or] 800,000 deaths." —President Donald Trump
"People are tired of Covid. People are saying, 'Whatever, just leave us alone,'" Trump said of a virus that has killed more than 219,000 Americans and is still spreading at an alarming rate across the United States. "He's been here for, like, 500 years. He's like this wonderful sage telling us how—Fauci, if we listened to him, we'd have 700,000 [or] 800,000 deaths."
"If there's a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less," the president added, addressing members of the press on the call.
> Trump's comments came after the airing Sunday night of Fauci's interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," during which the nation's top infectious disease expert rejected the president's rosy depiction of the current state of the pandemic and said the White House has been restricting his ability to speak to the press about the pandemic.
"When you have a million deaths and over 30 million infections globally, you can not say that we're on the road to essentially getting out of this," Fauci said, an assessment that directly contradicts Trump's recent claim that the U.S. is "rounding the turn."...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/19/pandemic-surges-us-trump-says-people-are-tired-hearing-fauci-and-all-these-idiots
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- 'Trump goes after Fauci, tries to buck up his campaign team,' AP News, Oct, 19, 2020
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — President Donald Trump came out swinging Monday at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the press and polls that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states in a disjointed closing message two weeks out from Election Day
On the third day of a western campaign swing, Trump was facing intense pressure to turn around his campaign, hoping for the type of last-minute surge that gave him a come-from-behind victory four years ago. But his inconsistent message, the newly rising virus cases and his attacks on experts like Fauci could undermine his final efforts to appeal to voters outside his most loyal base.
Still Trump insisted he was confident as he executed an aggressive travel schedule despite the pandemic.
“We’re going to win,” he told campaign staff on a morning conference call from Las Vegas. He went on to acknowledge: “I wouldn’t have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago,” referring to the days when he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
Seeking to shore up the morale of his staff, Trump blasted his government’s own scientific experts as too negative, even as his handling of the pandemic that has killed nearly 220,000 Americans remains a central issue to voters.
“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots,” Trump said of the government’s top infectious disease expert. “Every time he goes on television, there’s always a bomb. But there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him. But Fauci’s a disaster.”...
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-nevada-00a1dc6f5932c9fe778ee5e9cabacc71
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