Anthony Fauci mentioned Sunday he wouldn’t return to his place as chief White Home medical adviser if Donald Trump was re-elected president in 2024.
The infectious illness knowledgeable was requested by CNN’s Jim Acosta if he would have faith in Trump’s capability to take care of a public well being emergency ought to Trump serve one other time period as president. “Would you need to keep on in your put up?” Acosta added.
“Uh, properly, no,” Fauci mentioned. “To the second query.”
“The primary query … for those who have a look at the historical past of what the response was through the administration, I feel at finest you might say at finest it wasn’t optimum. I feel simply historical past will communicate for itself about that. I don’t must make any additional touch upon that. It’s not productive.”
Fauci, who stayed on in his White Home function when President Joe Biden took workplace, clashed with the previous president in 2020 over public well being pointers and Trump’s deceptive statements about COVID-19 and the state and path of the pandemic.
Whereas Fauci pushed for stricter guidelines to mitigate the unfold of the virus, Trump downplayed the severity of coronavirus and sought to carry masking and social distancing guidelines and reopen companies.
Fauci grew to become one of many top targets for conservative ire over COVID-19 as he repeatedly warned of the hazards of the lethal virus and urged the general public to take precautions to guard themselves and others.
