Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s truly perplexed by what’s happening inside independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s head. In a new episode of the “The Axe Files” podcast, Fauci told CNN’s David Axelrod about how he once walked away from a meeting with the prominent anti-vaccine advocate with serious concerns about his grasp on … Read more
Not even Donald Trump’s ego was strong enough to get him to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to one former staffer. During Thursday’s episode of “The View,” co-host and former White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin recounted how she tried unsuccessfully to use flattery to get Trump to put … Read more
(The Hill) — Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci says that he still fears someone may kill him one day. “I still think, deep down, that there’s a possibility that somebody’s gonna kill me,” Fauci said in an interview with USA Today released Wednesday. “So, that’s a possibility I wish I didn’t have … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that Donald Trump got the notion to push hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment from none other than Fox News host Laura Ingraham. (Watch the video below.) Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force member during the pandemic, said the former president fixated on so-called miracle cures with “no basis in … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci has recalled how Donald Trump reacted to being corrected during a televised press briefing during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Fauci said he fully expected to be chewed out by the then-president after he publicly rejected Trump’s claim earlier in the briefing that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine … Read more
Then-President Donald Trump unloaded about Joe Biden and bombastically predicted he would beat his 2020 rival in a landslide in his expletive-laden last conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases revealed in his memoir. Trump called Fauci from Air Force One on Nov. 1, … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised the federal government on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed his whiplash-inducing relationship with Donald Trump in his new memoir. Excerpts from the book, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” were shared Thursday by several media outlets the week before its scheduled release. … Read more
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