Complaining that he and his family have received death threats, 80-yuear-old National Institutes of Health [NIH] chief of Infectious disease Dr. Anthony Fauci said he had to hire a private security detail. Fauci told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta that he was dumfounded by the threats for just doing his job in public health. Fauci told Gupta at a virtual conference sponsored by Harvard’s School of Public Health that the coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 “brings out the best of people and the worst of people,” trying to get philosophical about why he’s getting death threats. “Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security, it’s amazing,” Fauci said acting clueless. Fauci doesn’t acknowledge that he deviated from his role to disseminate information to the public on 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force but became political.
CNN has interviewed Fauci numerous times, each time asking loaded question all designed to discredit Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. What’s become clear is that the media exploits Fauci to make political statements against Trump. Trump has become more aware than ever that Fauci’s no friend of the White House but instead has become a thorn in Trump’s side, disputing the president’s ideas about the numbers of active cases, death rates and existing treatments. “I wouldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams that people who object to things that are pure public health principles are so set against it and don’t like what you and I say, namely in the world of science, that they actually threaten you,” Fauci said. Fauci knows that people aren’t upset with him about his work as a public health official, they’re upset that he’s injected himself into a heated presidential campaign.
Fauci pretends well that he’s nonpartisan but he gives interviews readily to the mainstream media, all set with the agenda of making Trump look bad. Fauci acts clueless but it’s obvious he’s working for the likes of CNN and others that want Trump to lose his reelection bid in the worst way. Fauci says he’s received “serious threats, prompting him to hire a security detail more months. He called the threats against himself and his family “a little disturbing,” knowing that he doesn’t know what to do to stop them. Trump’s backers have no problem with Fauci reciting facts as he knows them, something he calls “science.” Whether Fauci’s sees this or not, he’s antagonized Trump supporters that see him too often discrediting the president while opining about he coronavirus on various radio and TV stations. It just happens the 95% or more of today’s media despise Trump.
Going on various radio and TV shows to answer loaded questions that prove Trump is at odds with his Coronavirus Task Force looks political, even when Fauci says he’s just doing his job. Fauci likes hearing the solicitous media call him the “nation’s leading authority on infectious disease,” something not true based on his position with the NIH. Fauci’s nearing retirement, hardly someone in their prime in terms of doing active research in his field. Only recently, faced with some criticism by Trump, has Fauci done more interviews with the anti-Trump press. Democrat pollsters have had a field day asking respondents who they trust more Fauci or Trump? CNN’s Brian Stelter couldn’t contain his glee reporting July 16 that a Quinnipiac poll shows 75% of respondents trust Fauci on Covid-19 to only 27% for Trump. Fauci’s well aware of how the media uses him daily to get back at Trump.
When Trump pointed out that Fauci hasn’t always given him good advice, Fauci started going on radio and TV talks shows more regularly. Fauci’s often asked why he’s being kept away from press briefings, awkwardly telling the press “he can’t get into that kind of stuff.” Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, both members of the Coronavirus Task Force, urged Trump to shutdown or lockdown parts of the U.S. economy, prompting the economy to lapse into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Trump admitted that Fauci opposed his Jan. 31 China travel ban, coming over a month before the World Health Organization [WHO] declared a global coronaviurs pandemic March 11. Fauci seemed to agree at the time with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom that the travel ban was unnecessary. On March 31, Fauci opposed the used of face-coverings or maska for the general public
Since Trump raised certain criticisms about Fauci, he’s spent most of his time doing interviews in the anti-Trump press, complaining that virus flair-ups around the country had to do with ending shelter in place orders prematurely. Trump’s 71-year-old chief adviser on trade Peter Navarro said Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on,” prompting Fauci to litigate his case against Trump in the media. If Fauci wants to know why he’s antagonized some of Trump supporters, he needs to look at the way he’s exploited by CNN and other anti-Trump news networks to discredit the president. Pretending he’s clueless only makes him look more partisan, letting the media ask him all the right questions to attack Trump. Fauci has no problem telling people to socially distance, wear masks and wash hands but he has a big problem admitting he’s used his position to defeat Trump’s reelection.
