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#Trump insists he and Dr. Fauci have ‘very good relationship’

#Trump insists he and Dr. Fauci have ‘very good relationship’

July 13, 2020 | 4:22pm

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday defended what he called a “very good relationship” with Dr. Anthony Fauci amid reports the pair have fallen out over the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling the infectious disease expert “a very nice person.”

“I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci, I’ve had for a long time, right from the beginning,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he still appreciated the advice of the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is a key coronavirus task force member.

A Washington Post report published Saturday claimed the president has not consulted Fauci since June and that his administration had sought to sideline him over his blunt assessments of the country’s handling of an alarming spike in new infections.

“I find him to be a very nice person,” Trump continued. “I don’t always agree with him — I closed the borders, as you know, to China, I did the ban on China, heavily infected and we saved tens of thousands of lives — and Dr. Fauci will admit that was a good decision,” he said.

“It was very early that was in January, long before it was thought of as the right thing to do,” he continued.

The president and Fauci initially butted heads in February when Trump closed the borders with China — a decision Fauci opposed at the time.

“I get along with him very well. I like him personally,” Trump added.

But Trump administration officials have sought to discredit Fauci and in a statement to the Washington Post, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the scientist had been “wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on.”

“Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn’t matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. So when you ask me if I listen to Dr. Fauci’s advice, my answer is only with caution,” Navarro said.

The 79-year-old has not held back in his criticism of the administration’s response to the pandemic and in an interview Tuesday said the president’s claims that the country’s low death rate meant progress against the virus was a “false narrative.”

The respected infectious disease expert has also refused to endorse hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by the administration, and has called for caution as Trump pushes schools to reopen around the country.

In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Adm. Brett Giroir, the nation’s top testing expert, also threw Fauci under the bus, saying he was “not 100 percent right” that states should pause reopening where there is a spike in new infections.

“I respect Dr. Fauci a lot, but Dr. Fauci is not 100 percent right, and he also doesn’t necessarily, he admits that, have the whole national interest in mind,” Giroir said.

“He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view.”

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