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President Trump has praised Dr. Anthony S. Fauci as a major television star. He has tried to demonstrate that the administration is giving him free rein to speak. And he has deferred to Dr. Faucis opinion several times at the coronavirus task forces televised briefings.
But Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, has grown bolder in correcting the presidents falsehoods and overly rosy statements about the spread of the coronavirus in the past two weeks and he has become a hero to the presidents critics because of it. And now, Mr. Trumps patience has started to wear thin.
So has the patience of some White House advisers, who see Dr. Fauci as taking shots at the president in some of his interviews with print reporters while offering extensive praise for Mr. Trump in television interviews with conservative hosts.
Mr. Trump knows that Dr. Fauci, who has advised every president since Ronald Reagan, is seen as credible with a large section of the public and with journalists, and so he has given the doctor more leeway to contradict him than he has other officials, according to multiple advisers to the president.
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PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)his thinking is. Trump needs to be the center of attention and is afraid of being upstaged by Dr. Fauci. That is sick.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Fauci can hardly contain himself and not burst out laughing during trDumpies Nazi press conference / political rallies.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)This is why at least half his administration has been fired.