“I just said, ‘Oh mercy, merciful. “I could only see what was going to happen,” Fauci told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Trump’s ‘Out Front’ proposal.
“You will have people who hear it from the president and they are going to do dangerous and foolish things, so those of us who were not there were immediately told, ‘This is something you should not do.’ Be very explicit. The (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) came out in my opinion the next day and posted one of their publications: “Do Not Do It.”
At a media conference in the White House in April, Trump considered whether disinfectants could be used to treat the virus in humans – and asked if there was a way we could do such a thing, by injecting inside or almost cleaning. ‘
He later falsely claimed that he was sarcastic and that he had asked officials to investigate the effect of disinfectant on hands – not by ingestion or injection. But the remarks prompted cleaning products companies and health officials to issue warnings about the dangers of ingesting them.
Fauci recalled Monday night that Trump received a mix of “good information and bad information” about the pandemic.
“Unfortunately, the concept of anecdotal versus science-driven information seems to prevail,” he said. “I did not take much pleasure in contradicting the president, but I had to come out just to maintain my own integrity, but also to stand up for the science that the data does not show what they claim.”
Fauci, who sat on Trump’s coronavirus task force and endured the former president’s former contempt, has opened up over the past few days about his rocky relationship with the last government.
In the White House last week, he presented President Joe Biden’s approach to the pandemic, explaining: ‘The idea that you can stand up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what science is – let science talk. It’s something of a liberating feeling. ‘
This is a striking story and will be updated.