Anthony Fauci och Donald Trump vid en pressträff i april 2020. (Alex Brandon / TT NYHETSBYRÅN)

Fauci talar ut om Trump: ”Gjorde förfärliga saker”

Den amerikanska smittskyddstoppen Anthony Fauci talar nu ut om svårigheterna med att bekämpa en pandemi med Donald Trump som president.

I en intervju med brittiska The Telegraph säger Fauci att han tvingades korrigera presidenten vid flera tillfällen, vilket väckte ilska hos Trump. Det ledde till att Trump stängde ute Fauci från möten och attackerade honom personligen.

Fauci kallar Trumps agerande ”förfärligt” och säger att han blivit måltavla för extremhögerns hat.

– Till den grad att jag fortfarande behöver ha skydd av beväpnade poliser hela tiden, säger han till tidningen.

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Anthony Fauci
Wikipedia (en)
Anthony Stephen Fauci (; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden since 2021. Fauci was one of the lead members of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Fauci is one of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases, and during the early stages of the pandemic, The New Yorker and The New York Times described Fauci as one of the most trusted medical figures in the United States.As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci has served American public health in various capacities for more than 50 years, and has been an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. He became director of the NIAID in 1984 and has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID. From 1983 to 2002, Fauci was one of the world's most frequently-cited scientists across all scientific journals. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR.
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