Jan 23, 2021 09:07 PM
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Dr. Fauci opens up about how good it feels to work for Biden instead of Trump
https://bgr.com/2021/01/22/coronavirus-u...-vs-trump/
EXCERPT: . . . the doctor who’s been at the forefront of the US coronavirus pandemic response as one of the country’s most trusted and authoritative sources of information has just given his first briefing under the auspices of the Biden administration — and raved about how liberated he now feels to not be working for Trump officials anymore.
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to the White House press briefing room Thursday under very different circumstances than he encountered up to this point. Put simply, he insisted that Biden officials will now let him speak his mind freely, without fear of repercussion, whether the news he’s sharing is good or bad.
“I can tell you, I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president,” Dr. Fauci told reporters, something he nevertheless tried to do very delicately when President Trump said something amiss so as not to anger him. “The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what the science is — let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.”
Accordingly, the now 80-year-old doctor stressed to the assembled reporters that the US coronavirus picture is still extremely worrying. And the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University certainly bear that out... (MORE - details)
Fauci says he was blocked from appearing on MSNBC’s Maddow show by Trump administration
RELEASE: Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has revealed the reason behind his absence from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show throughout the coronavirus pandemic: the Trump administration blocked him. "I've been wanting to come on your show for months and months. You've been asking me to come on your show for months and months, and it's just gotten blocked," Fauci told Maddow during a live interview Friday.
"I mean let's call it what it is -- it just got blocked because they didn't like the way you handle things, and they didn't want me on. I mean it was so clear," added Fauci, who has made a point of appearing on media outlets large and small, as well as blogs, webcasts and before community groups to explain the pandemic.
But when he asked to go on Maddow, a show with a definite left-leaning bent and highly critical of the Trump administration, Fauci said the answer would be "don't do it."
Fauci said he doesn't expect to see the same treatment from the Biden administration. "I think you're going to see a lot of transparency,” said Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy of Infectious Diseases and who will continue as a White House adviser. "You might not see everybody as often as you want, but you're not going to see deliberate holding back of good people when the press asks for them ... It was a tough situation. It really was."
https://bgr.com/2021/01/22/coronavirus-u...-vs-trump/
EXCERPT: . . . the doctor who’s been at the forefront of the US coronavirus pandemic response as one of the country’s most trusted and authoritative sources of information has just given his first briefing under the auspices of the Biden administration — and raved about how liberated he now feels to not be working for Trump officials anymore.
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to the White House press briefing room Thursday under very different circumstances than he encountered up to this point. Put simply, he insisted that Biden officials will now let him speak his mind freely, without fear of repercussion, whether the news he’s sharing is good or bad.
“I can tell you, I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president,” Dr. Fauci told reporters, something he nevertheless tried to do very delicately when President Trump said something amiss so as not to anger him. “The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what the science is — let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.”
Accordingly, the now 80-year-old doctor stressed to the assembled reporters that the US coronavirus picture is still extremely worrying. And the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University certainly bear that out... (MORE - details)
Fauci says he was blocked from appearing on MSNBC’s Maddow show by Trump administration
RELEASE: Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has revealed the reason behind his absence from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show throughout the coronavirus pandemic: the Trump administration blocked him. "I've been wanting to come on your show for months and months. You've been asking me to come on your show for months and months, and it's just gotten blocked," Fauci told Maddow during a live interview Friday.
"I mean let's call it what it is -- it just got blocked because they didn't like the way you handle things, and they didn't want me on. I mean it was so clear," added Fauci, who has made a point of appearing on media outlets large and small, as well as blogs, webcasts and before community groups to explain the pandemic.
But when he asked to go on Maddow, a show with a definite left-leaning bent and highly critical of the Trump administration, Fauci said the answer would be "don't do it."
Fauci said he doesn't expect to see the same treatment from the Biden administration. "I think you're going to see a lot of transparency,” said Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy of Infectious Diseases and who will continue as a White House adviser. "You might not see everybody as often as you want, but you're not going to see deliberate holding back of good people when the press asks for them ... It was a tough situation. It really was."