Fauci was also asked about one of Trump’s retweets on Monday that cast doubt on his scientific credentials, including a message alleging that he had “misled the American public on many issues.”
The widely respected immunologist has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three and a half decades, advising various presidents throughout his career.
“I don’t know how to deal with that. I will simply continue to do my job, “Fauci said Tuesday, adding:” I have not been deceiving the American public under any circumstances. “
Trump’s latest Twitter wave represents a return to form for the president, who had stepped up efforts in recent weeks to undermine his own public health officials before apparently projecting a more science-focused tone last Tuesday with regarding the pandemic.
But during a tour of a vaccine production plant in North Carolina on Monday, Trump showed signs of his previous hunger to reopen the US economy despite record spikes in Covid-19 cases in the south. and the southwest.
“I really believe that many of the governors should be opening states that are not opening, and we’ll see what happens to them,” Trump said.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, one of Trump’s outspoken Republican critics, said Tuesday that officials in his state “were not going to follow the president’s advice” on the reopening and accused him of “falling into those old habits of saying things that are counterproductive. “
“The message seems to be wrong by the president at this time. It’s kind of like the message we had earlier in the crisis, “Hogan told CNN. “But many of the states that opened too quickly are now closing again. And we don’t want to be in that position. “
