Anthony Fauci, a vital member of the coronavirus task force of the White House, issued a statement on Tuesday in which he said that there is not an acrimonious relationship between President Trump and himself.
Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) asked Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Robert Redfield, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir of the Department of Health and Human Services to comment on their relationship with the President during the coronavirus crisis, during a Senate Health Committee Hearing on Tuesday.
“The mainstream media and indeed some of my colleagues in the Senate seem to want to paint each of your relationships with our president during this wartime effort as confrontational and lacking consensus,’’ said Loeffler.
“Can you categorically say here to the American people today whether this is true or untrue?’’ she asked.
On this, Fauci replied:
“There is certainly not a confrontational relationship between me and the president. As I have mentioned many times, I give advice and opinion based on evidence-based scientific information. He hears that – he respects it – he gets opinions from a variety of other people – but in no way, in my experience over the last several months, has there been any confrontational relationship between us.’’
According to The Hill, since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., questions have surfaced about Trump’s relationship with Fauci and other members of the White House coronavirus task force.
Two months ago, Fauci said that the media should stop making him and President Trump look confrontational on the topic of the coronavirus pandemic.
“That is really unfortunate. I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences. There really, fundamentally, at the core … are not differences,’’ said Fauci.
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