The public battle between President Donald Trump's economic and medical advisers stretched into another day after Peter Navarro, the senior White House trade official, apparently broke protocol by publishing an opinion article trashing Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci, in his most forceful pushback to date against White House attempts to discredit him, warned his fellow administration officials a day later that they were harming the President's credibility. Speaking to The Atlantic, Fauci called White House attacks on him "bizarre" and said they ultimately damaged Trump.
"I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that," he said. "I think they realize now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it's only reflecting negatively on them."
He was speaking as the White House worked to distance itself from Navarro's opinion piece, which contained viewpoints similar to opinions voiced by Trump himself and distributed by the White House over the weekend.
The White House communications office insisted Navarro did not clear his article through them before it was published in USA Today. Trump himself called the piece a mistake.
But the sentiment Navarro expressed — that Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist, had been wrong on multiple occasions during the pandemic — was the same one White House officials espoused over the weekend when they questioned his record to reporters.
Trump on Wednesday brushed off the episode in the Oval Office before taking a more forceful stance as he departed the White House for Atlanta.
"He made a statement representing himself," Trump said when questioned about the article. "He shouldn't be doing that. I have a very good relationship with Anthony."
"We're all on the same team," Trump said, "including Dr. Fauci."
#Fauci #CNN #News
Trump 2016: “I’m going to make America great again”
Trump 2020: “I was being sarcastic”
@TJ LOL!! You seem pretty frantic here. Is the fact that your Emperor SippyCup is going down starting to get to you, TJ? It must be rough. Hehehe!
@MUAspurs 123 Yes, Obama was wise and powerful, but the escapee from Bellvue baffled him.
@Suremes looks like the white house wants to bypass the cdc cause they think there adding extra cases. So trump now wants to numbers under his regime. Take that pile but the next pile we delete that corona so forth. That’s one way of keeping numbers down. Id imagine a few fake death certificates. Trump has his man now who thinks he’s smarter than Fauci. Called Mr fake death certificates.
@TJ I tell you how, to you personally. Send me your details. FOr now I can tell you how to NOT do: like USA
Clinton 2016. What difference does it make? Buys DNC. Screws over Sanders. Loses election. Biden 2020. You ain’t black. Bloomberg buys DNC. Screws over Sanders. Loses election.
FACT: The Trump administration is a complete joke.
@TJ Yup, that was approach they took the second rump dropped the ball, that wasn’t how it was supposed to work until he did, intelligent people know that and sheep parrot that talking point.
Absolutely
They keep using that one. Only Congress can appropriate funds. Betsy DeVos is counting on schools opening as part of her privatization scheme.
True
@Lancer Majikina You’re an empty headed troll.
Funny trump would fire someone if they said anything bad about him 😂 who’s stupid enough to support this clown still?
Trump needs to get reelected so he can save the economy.
@J Groovy exactly well said, he could of done all of those,instead he decided to try and discredit it and as a result created more division
@Jeb Bush LOL I agree with you.
Trump says: no testing no cases. No testing for cancer will eliminate cancer cases the Trump way. LOL
Tremendous job, Dr Trump. Tremendous. Keep up the good work with dirty babies’ diapers.
More disinfectant for Americans. Trump is opening a new factory for disinfectants in Manhattan.
@vman armand yes and then denied he dud that and has tried to blame President Obama fir this crises on several occasions atleast along with the hell of his buddies of Fox Fake News
Don’t underestimate the lack of education and/or common sense of much of the population.
Trump has a problem. We don’t the exact location, but we know the general vicinity. Somewhere between his left ear and his right ear.
@Paul Rossi Why?
@Paul Rossi are you stoned or just stupid
It’s that good…you know what. (Pointing to his noggin) Funny how when a meth head tries to get normal people to play along and support them in their delusions, It never seems to work out.
@Paul Rossi you must be a complete idiot or maybe you are just drunk!!!!
@Kilgore Trout and this way to the great egress!!
Trump: “Peter Navarro? Never heard of him”
Trump’s a sadistic psychopath
Yes he did Des. He’s the guy with VERBAL DIARHHEA!!!
THAT ADMINISTRATION IS A TOTAL HOKE HE HAS LIED TO ALL AMERICANS SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN
Gayle Gardiner 👈. No he hasn’t. Your boy uncle Joe is a “HOKE” lol
@Mike Hall YOUR OPINION
Gayle, Why are you SCREAMING and YELLING at us?
I thought we were no longer talking about Democrats. Sorry isn’t good enough. ps://activatenow.us/the-long-list-of-joe-bidens-terrible-record/
Gayle Gardiner 👈. Just YouTube Biden videos and see for yourself. Not just my opinion.
Just like him to get something started then run and hide.
@Patrick Hill …Let me guess. Male, no education and daddy issues?….lol
@Patrick Hill 💙👍🌞
@J K dream on. Now watch the who video
Hey now… he’s just _inspecting_ the bunker.
@DEVBEND They need to remove him from office with force, he’s just way out of control.
Trump Administration is like watching a train wreck everyday!
@Mike Hall Hilarious! Here’s one for you. CONS are always on the wrong side of history and are so thoroughly insecure, morally and intellectually bankrupt and deep in denial that they’ve actually invented an alternate history where THEY were the PROGRESSIVE ones.
Jeb Bush 👈. Walmart has tissues on sale. You may want to stock up.
It’s more like watching sewage being processed and fed back into the town’s water lines while it’s still brown.
@William H Music 2020 yes troll..we do..and we even support messed up ppl like you..
@Rick Beal flu kills on avg 12,000 people in an 8 month season..there IS a flu vaccine..and if you get the flu you take meds n get over it..covid has killed 140,000 ppl..millions are infected..all in just a few months..and..there’s no vaccine and there are really no meds.. side effects of covid are organ damage.esp to the lungs heart and kidneys as well as lingering health issues..the flu does not do or cause any of that…so stop with the bs bc anyone with half a brain knows better..
Bloody hell, they sucked Dr. Fauci into their dirty games.
@OrionXZ I’d like sources for each statement!
@Jagoda H
Since Fauci and Gates both work in the fields of global health, I’m sure they have many connections. What have YOU done to save lives recently?
Fauci Ignores WHO Boss Crimes Against Humanity https://youtu.be/9uWriZEC8BQ- check this
@Hildebeast Clinton Wow. Just wow. How delusional are you? Every one of those conspiracy theories is wrong. You forgot the one about Democrats being giant alien lizards in disguise.
Fauci was always the point man, like Biden shaking down Ukraine and China for Hunter.
Wow this doesn’t surprise me Trump is 🔥 his bridges and he’s not a health official he needs to go golfing and allow the professionals to deal with this crisis….
NO! NO MORE GOLFING! He’s done enough! 😂
While golfing, maybe he will fall into a deep hole and come out in CHINA!..LOL
Navarro’s done. Trump is about to throw him under the bus.
Wtf how big is trump bus, there’s got to be a hell of a lot of “LOYALS” under there by now
@Tamara Johnson lol
Well someone has to get throw under the bus… the discredit Fauci thing didn’t work.
Nah.. he’ll just stuff Navarro into the luggage compartment until the next stop.
@John Gordon The road to Hell is paved with Trump loyals.
Trump:”Peter Navarro, I barely know him, not a bigly fan…”
Dr. Fauci should have known that when he proved Trump wrong, this was coming “but it had to be done ✅ Thank you 🙏
Atticus X How many more must die and how many more must lose their jobs and how many more of our soldiers must be the victims of contract hits before you wake up and realize that Trump is slowly demolishing America more and more with each passing day?
Get off of trumps breast milk. Fool.
@Atticus X ahahahahahahaha, really funny… hilarious
@Atticus X
Intentionally treating Coronavvirus as “The Democrats’ New Hoax” and it having claimed 137K lives months later clearly wasn’t evil.
Not having any sympathy for troops with a Russian bounty on their heads? – Nah, nothing at all.
Insulting minorities & very obvious supporters of them in several different ways in the span of 7 months (2020) intentionally in multiple ways? – Nah, not evil.
Suggesting/Encouraging misogynistic behavior on multiple occasions clearly isn’t evil.
Mean is different from evil & being unproductive.
As of writing this, Trump is literally driving the nation into the ground & has been doing so throughout his presidency.
Federal sourcing can prove this. Even news sources as unreliable as FOX highlight this so vividly, despite their overwhelming bias.
@Atticus X dream on. 💙👍🌞
It’s WAAAY too late for Trump to discredit him now, especially when Fauci is only trying to protect us. The death toll proves it.
If Whitehouse gets the data..we will not hear anymore info about how many are sick or dead..they want to control of the information we get. Dictatorship.
Dr. Falci was given the medal of freedom and Bush Sr called him the best researcher during the AIDS crisis.. I’m going to trust an expert with over 4 decades of experience!!
Agreed 100%!!!
“Damage control mode” for Team Trump™ is to do even more spectacular damage to deflect attention from the damage they are trying to control.
If obstructing justice and promoting injustice wasn’t enough evil now Team Trump™ is coercing a pandemic and using America’s most innocent to do it. The cult of Team Trump™ is purely evil, and he is their Antichrist. Where Trump is concerned he can’t care because he doesn’t have the capacity. He’s fine with ruling over the ashes and saying, “I told you so. I win bigly!”. The Orange Ogre of the Oval Orifice could be standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue wearing a MAGA hat and a dirty diaper, sucking on a live pigeon while lunging at passersby and certain fascistic capitalist lawmakers and administration officials claiming “₨€pub£i¢an va£u€$” still back him up because they believe that if they don’t hang with him and win they may literally hang with him. They feel they have no choice, they have been compromised. Living the thug life for so long they became addicted to it. Blood in Blood out. Now they see the devil coming for his due, and they’ve lost their minds.
This is all so stupid! ! Of course you have to listen to the experts! ! The US is in trouble. .
Even on Gilligan’s Island they knew to listen to the Professor, not the Millionaire.
Jerry Long great analogy ☺️
Don’t kid yourselves. Navaros oped was bunkerboys idea. We literally can’t believe anything coming from the WH
We definitely can’t believe anything coming from you.
I see what you did there …. and we can’t believe anything coming from you or me ….. you caused a glitch in the mainframe …. everything is False no what ….. me saying everything is false is false too ….
Boy I cant remember a time when you could trust gov in general. What’s your point. Did you trust Obama?
@Robert Clawson how do you know? One statement and that is your retort? Why do you want to start a fight? Cooped up too long because of Trump’s* stupendously botched response?
@J Hallin I trusted Obama..still do..joe Biden too..trump? Are you fricking kidding me?..no..no..no..no😂😂
Even Gilligan’s island knew to listen to the professor over the millionaire
Cool reply😀
😂😂😂😂Love it!
Trump and his minions are learning that they can’t win by attacking the “only adult in the room”!
Hehe Bullseye
LOL, u mad bruh!