Donald Trump blasts Fauci and Birx as 'self-promoters'
In an angry statement, former U.S. president Donald Trump described Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as "two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned."
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- Published Date: 12:23 | 30 March 2021
- Modified Date: 12:33 | 30 March 2021
Former President Donald Trump is slamming two of his most prominent coronavirus advisers. He says Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx are "two self-promoters trying to reinvent history."
Fauci is the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, and in a statement released Monday evening, Trump calls him "the king of 'flip-flops." He accuses Fauci of "moving the goalposts to make himself look as good as possible."
Birx managed the Trump administration's response to the pandemic, and Trump says she "is a proven liar with very little credibility left."
Trump's comments come in response to a documentary that aired on CNN on Sunday. In the film, Birx says the U.S. did not act aggressively enough to fight the spread of the coronavirus, saying that deaths "could have been mitigated or decreased substantially" after the initial wave.
Fauci told CNN it seemed like the Trump virus team was "fighting with each other rather than fighting the virus."
In his statement, Trump says "Dr. Fauci would always talk negatively about (Birx) and, in fact, would ask not to be in the same room with her."