After over a week of rumors from sources inside the White House, an apparent Trump-Fauci rift has spilled over into public view. After being absent from Trump’s coronavirus task force’s public forums, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated in mid-June during a radio interview that he hadn’t spoken to Trump in weeks. He told NPR’s “1A,” which is produced out of WAMU in Washington, D.C. that the last time he talked to Trump was “two weeks ago” and it was about “vaccine development efforts.” Since then, a report claims Fauci last saw Trump in person at the White House on June 2, according to a report published Friday by The Financial Times after interviewing Fauci. He also said that he hasn’t briefed Trump for at least two months. Since that time, the two have responded to one another through public interviews and statements often sounding at odds. On July 12, Trump retweeted to his over 83 million followers a message from former gameshow host Chuck Wollery: The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most ,that we are told
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