Joe Biden he was president for less than 36 hours, but administration officials – the few who remained after Donald Trump I took a plane to Palm Beach – they are already getting used to a new lifestyle. For the White House kitchen team, this probably means not having to hide vegetables in the president’s food just to get him to eat something of nutritional value. For people who work at the West Wing switchboard, it probably means not having to constantly tell Don Jr. that his father can’t speak and, yes, they know he’s been trying every day for months. And for Dr. Anthony Fauci, it means not having to work for a colossal idiot who lies about everything all the time and expects others to do the same, even instructing the public to consider free base bleach.
Speaking to the White House press on Thursday, an exuberant Fauci, who was sidelined by Trump for months, said it was totally liberating to work for someone who really wants him to tell the nation the truth about the pandemic, and not just pretend that will “miraculously” disappear. “I can say that I have no pleasure in being in a situation of contradiction with the president, so it was really something that you didn’t feel you could really say and there would be no repercussions on that,” he said. “The idea that you can come here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is and what science is, and know what it is – let science talk – is a somewhat liberating feeling.”
Fauci became a kind of national hero at the beginning of the pandemic, when it became clear that he was one of the few – unique? – federal government officials who did not feel comfortable standing up during daily coronavirus instructions and blatantly lying. Naturally, this put him in Trump’s sights, especially when the good doctor expressed skepticism about hydroxychloroquine, which Trump was promoting as a miracle cure, or suggesting that people inject household cleaning products into his veins. As a reminder, this was Fauci’s face most of the time, he was forced to stand beside the president while he gave this medical advice.
On Thursday, Fauci said “it was very clear that there were things said about things like hydroxychloroquine and the like, which were uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific facts”, adding that his willingness to contradict Trump was “why I I got in trouble sometimes “, although he is not afraid of being marginalized for saying what he thinks under Biden.” One of the things that became very clear about 15 minutes ago, when I was with the president, is that one of the things that what we’re going to do is be completely transparent, open and honest, “he said.” If things go wrong, don’t point fingers, but fix them and make everything we do based on science and evidence. It was literally a conversation that I had 15 minutes ago with the president, and he said that several times. ”On another point, asked if it would have been useful if Amazon had been involved in the government’s response to COVID-19, Fauci replied,“ No, I don’t think could re answer that question. One of the novelties in this administration is that if you don’t know the answer, don’t guess, just say you don’t know the answer. “
When a reporter said that Fauci had “joked a few times” about the incredible difference it was to go from the 45th president to the 46th, the doctor made it clear that he was serious and that last year had been hell hell and that he was. “You said I was kidding about this. I was being very serious. I wasn’t kidding, ”he said.
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