Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal | Anthony Fauci
Journal entries launched A statement made by a Republican senator aimed at damaging Anthony Fauci also shows the former US government scientific adviser’s growing frustration with Donald Trump during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president “adrift”, “crazy”, “desperate”, “incompetent”, “incompetent”, “idiot”, “a real embarrassment”, “totally insane” and “a truly disgusting teenager”.
Fauci had noted in his diary since the early days of the crisis six years ago difficult interactions with the publicity-obsessed Trump. He wrote that on February 27, 2020, amid the first stirrings of public alarm, the US president made a surprise phone call late at night in which he “wanted to chat about the coronavirus situation in general.”
Fauci for “about 20-25 minutes.” wrote“encouraged [Trump] Let’s not underestimate the seriousness of the situation because if it turns out to be bad, it will look like he’s covering it up. I even talked to him from a political standpoint that we could be in serious trouble and that his re-election chances could be further damaged if he downplayed the potential for the virus to spread in the United States rather than saying that even if the Stock Market got worse, at least he was honest and the country would respect that.
“I thought he heard what I said, but the next day he snubbed again.”
By March 14, in the midst of the first Covid shutdowns, Fauci was bemoaning Trump’s obsession with “a ratings and publicity surge.” “That’s why he wants us to hold 2 press conferences a day – one in the morning and the other at the Prime Minister’s… We won’t have time to do business anymore.”
‘A real shame’
On May 22, Fauci wrote that Trump was “out of control in his effort to open up the country and turn around the economy before Election Day.” [sic]. “This is all about re-election.”
This turned out to be true. In October 2020, Fauci wrote: [presidential] The election is approaching, cases are increasing as the weather gets colder and fluctuations are inevitable. Trump is spewing nonsense on the campaign trail. It’s really out of control. A real shame.”
By March 2021, watching Trump attempt to hold on to power despite his election defeat in a way that reminds him “historically of Hitler,” Fauci writes: “He really is a disgusting teenager.”
Fauci’s diary entries It was read as raw source material for reporting on the pandemic and its politics. He admitted to being a source himself and was concerned about being suspected of leaking information, but wrote in late May 2020: “Had a long conversation with him about the ‘background’ topic. [Washington Post reporter] Bob Woodward, who wrote a book on the early response to Covid in the US. I gave him the history of our response in early January and into February. will he talk [sic] More with him tomorrow [sic].”
release A portion of Fauci’s diaries were edited by Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky who has long expressed skepticism about the Covid-19 response led by Fauci, accusing him of needlessly shutting down the country while conveying the so-called truth that the virus was man-made and that US-funded research contributed to its creation. Fauci has consistently said that the generally accepted theory is that the virus emerged through animal-to-human transmission.
The two men had clashed before. At a hearing in January 2022, for example, Fauci told Paul that his attacks put him in danger: “Polite[ing] There are crazy people and threats to my life, my family and children are being harassed with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me.” Fauci also accused: “You are creating a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain.”
Paul and Fauci will face each other again on Wednesday at the hearing where 85-year-old Fauci will also be tried. forced appear. Paul said he would “make sure Fauci will be held accountable for the dangerous decisions he made and the consequences they had for millions of people.”
In the right press, coverage Each of Fauci’s diaries focused on his notes about his rise to global fame during the Covid response, particularly his meeting with celebrities or appearing on television and in the press. Singer Joan Baez and actors Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are among the prominent names.
Fauci seems proud of his newfound fame. On July 13, 2020, she returned to her diary as her relationship with Trump rapidly soured.
“Big, big show of support for me for so many and diverse industries,” he writes. “Most people[p]Expresses anger of Trump administration [sic] To be so incompetent and incompetent as to attempt to discredit the world’s most trusted scientist.”
