Fauci says his remarks were taken out of context in Trump ad

By Pete Schroeder

 

FILE PHOTO: Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 30, 2020. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign and that his comments were taken out of context.

 

The ad, released last week, discusses Trump's effort to recover from the coronavirus personally, as well as his administration's work to address the pandemic. The 30-second spot uses older remarks from Fauci in a way that suggests he was praising the president.

 

"I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more," the ad shows Fauci saying.

 

But those remarks are from a March interview, where Fauci, who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, was discussing the broader effort, including by the White House coronavirus task force.

 

"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate," Fauci said in a statement.

 

"The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," his statement added.

 

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh defended the ad in a statement on Sunday, saying the words from Fauci "are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci’s mouth.

 

"As Dr. Fauci recently testified in the Senate, President Trump took the virus seriously from the beginning, acted quickly, and saved lives,” Murtaugh's statement added.

 

Fauci and Trump have not always agreed on how to handle the pandemic, which has infected nearly 7.7 million people in the United States and killed more than 214,000. Opinion polls show most voters disapprove of the president's handling of the crisis.

 

On Friday, Fauci described a Sept. 26 White House event, after which several attendees including Trump, tested positive for the virus, as a "superspreader event."

 

ABC News said on Sunday it had asked the White House to allow Fauci to appear on "The Week," but the administration refused to make him or other members of the task force available.

 

Alyssa Farah, the White House communications director, said later on Twitter that Fauci had made other media appearances earlier in the week, rebutting the charge he was "muzzled."

 

(Reporting by Pete Schroeder; Editing by Peter Cooney)

 

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More misleading facts and lies from the Trump camp. Shame on the Republican party and Trump and his electoral committee. I hope the American people hold them to account at the ballot box.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," his statement added.

Dr Fauci, you are dealing with a liar and a thief! Trump has NO morals!

Once again Trump lies he will do anything to stay in office he would lie he will cheat he will steal this is not the first time is quite an ally his whole presidency has been a lie that Kiev everything you know he was pressuring the guy to lie for him and he didn’t Jumbo go down as the worst lying president in the history of America

45 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

More misleading facts and lies from the Trump camp. Shame on the Republican party and Trump and his electoral committee. I hope the American people hold them to account at the ballot box.

It's amazing that Trump and his goons will keep lying and lying about practically everything.  And why do they do that?  Because the truth is not on their side.  If they weren't lying their asses off, they'd have nothing.  Thankfully, most Americans can see this.  The entire GOP needs to burn to the ground and start over again.  This election will be a good starting point.

What an absolute disaster this election will be. Surreal to no end.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," his statement added.

 

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh defended the ad in a statement on Sunday, saying the words from Fauci "are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci’s mouth.

" words from Fauci "are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci’s mouth. "

Are accurate , ok , but in what context ? Is that part of the presidential ' fake news ' campaign ?

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

On Friday, Fauci described a Sept. 26 White House event, after which several attendees including Trump, tested positive for the virus, as a "superspreader event."

Trump should be held responsible for his handling of the crisis ( misinformation and lies ) , and for holding mass gatherings while downplaying the risk the participants of those gatherings take .

Now he has just recovered from the virus himself , he is holding campaign rallies again ... hope he is no ' presidential superspreader ' himself .

Edited October 12, 20205 yr by nobodysfriend

The immorality of Trump's lies has infected all his sycophants working for him like a virus. There are collectively an immoral, deceitful and without principles bunch giving blind loyalty to a crook. 

It shows again how desparate Trump is.

And does he rally think with more lying he will convince anybody undecided to vote for him?

Fauci ought to bear in mind that Sacha Baron Cohen prank song - 'Dr. Fauci, what we gonna do?...'

Doubt Trump will directly turn on him now, but 4/11, regardless of results? A pretty solid bet.

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Now he has just recovered from the virus himself , he is holding campaign rallies again ... hope he is no ' presidential super spreader ' himself .

Honestly, did he ever have the virus??? ????

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It shows again how desparate Trump is.

And does he rally think with more lying he will convince anybody undecided to vote for him?

There are more than enough fools who believe him!

Reality

 

Just waiting to see how the 45 supporters will spin THIS one.

16 minutes ago, J Town said:

Just waiting to see how the 45 supporters will spin THIS one.

 

They handled Bannon and Bolton, I'm sure they'll manage.

31 minutes ago, J Town said:

Just waiting to see how the 45 supporters will spin THIS one.

That's easy. They will only look at Trumps add and will never see the original.

Or do you think fox will talk about that? 555

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign and that his comments were taken out of context.

It's quite an amateur grab that was bound to get found out once you revisited the original interview ..  

Devious desperation to use anything to hang onto power 5/10 ..

Execution of deviousness 2/10 .. 

Edited October 12, 20205 yr by Justgrazing
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26 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That's easy. They will only look at Trumps add and will never see the original.

Or do you think fox will talk about that? 555

 

 

Fauci says his comments in new Trump ad 'were taken out of context' and without his permission

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-comments-out-of-context

1 hour ago, J Town said:

Just waiting to see how the 45 supporters will spin THIS one.

Crickets....

Instructions not yet received.

Edited October 12, 20205 yr by candide

4 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh defended the ad in a statement on Sunday, saying the words from Fauci "are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci’s mouth.

This is even more frightening than the attempt to twist Fauci's statement 

The silence from 45 supporters on TVF is deafening

4 hours ago, Berkshire said:

It's amazing that Trump and his goons will keep lying and lying about practically everything.  And why do they do that?  Because the truth is not on their side.  If they weren't lying their asses off, they'd have nothing.  Thankfully, most Americans can see this.  The entire GOP needs to burn to the ground and start over again.  This election will be a good starting point.

I only can agree- by 100%.

 

But there is only 1 problem:  the stupidity of a big number of Americans.

 

Every normal democracy has some right or left wing followers, but in general in low ranges (except England - i didn't say GB - and Brazil i.e.). But in LoS (the Land of Stupids) there are ~40% Trump voters. Therefore: USA = LoS.

Does the CEO of a company typically do all the work or does he designate competent people to work on it and monitor it and direct it? But, there’s a CEO take credit for the accomplishments of his employees?

 

If Fauci is talking about frequent meetings with the White House advisors, do his advisors summarize and advise the President?

President Trump does not have the expertise on medical knowledge to deal with the virus. It is his job to have people who are knowledgeable working on it and monitor status. 
I don’t believe the CEO of a company that a develops great great products did all the work himself, nor that President Trump is responsible for all the work done on developing a vaccine. 
I highly doubt people believe President Trump is actively in the lab working on the vaccine. But maybe those are the same people that think it is a serious comment about drinking bleach

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

It's quite an amateur grab that was bound to get found out once you revisited the original interview ..  

Devious desperation to use anything to hang onto power 5/10 ..

Execution of deviousness 2/10 .. 

Trump's deviousness is exactly like that of Dick Dastardly, who, even when miles ahead, wastes so much time and effort on cheating that he ultimately loses.  At the beginning of the year there was a very real chance that Trump would be re-elected (there is still a chance he will, but a far lower one than previously).  In response to every major issue since then, all he had to do was make the right noises, commiserate with those affected, listen to the experts, and ensure that people followed their advice.  But instead, like in everything else he does and screws up, he decided that he knew better.  Now he's expending far more energy on ranting, lying and blaming everyone but himself, all the while declining in popularity, than he would if he had simply done things right and concentrated on the task at hand in the first place.

 

3 hours ago, Morch said:

 

Fauci says his comments in new Trump ad 'were taken out of context' and without his permission

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-comments-out-of-context

Wow!

Does that mean that now Trump will call fox news fake news?

4 hours ago, J Town said:

Just waiting to see how the 45 supporters will spin THIS one.

Not exactly difficult is it. According to the video posted in post #13 the actual question he was answering was:

 

Have you ever seen this big of a coordinated response by an administration?

 

 

5 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

Not exactly difficult is it. According to the video posted in post #13 the actual question he was answering was:

 

Have you ever seen this big of a coordinated response by an administration?

 

 

Hmmm....so why would Dr. Fauci have to come out and publicly announce that the Trump ad was inaccurate?  That the meaning in the ad was completely different than what he was conveying?  Don't worry, I doubt you can come up with a coherent answer. 

1 minute ago, Berkshire said:

Hmmm....so why would Dr. Fauci have to come out and publicly announce that the Trump ad was inaccurate?  That the meaning in the ad was completely different than what he was conveying?  Don't worry, I doubt you can come up with a coherent answer. 

Well it was not completely different was it, at most you could argue he was not talking about Trump as an individual but his administration as a whole. 

 

Even the articacal states: he was discussing the broader effort, including by the White House coronavirus task force.

 

As to why Fauci has come out with a statement about it, you would need to ask him. I am guessing it has something to do with the upcoming election LOL

3 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

Well it was not completely different was it, at most you could argue he was not talking about Trump as an individual but his administration as a whole. 

 

Even the articacal states: he was discussing the broader effort, including by the White House coronavirus task force.

 

As to why Fauci has come out with a statement about it, you would need to ask him. I am guessing it has something to do with the upcoming election LOL

I can see how we'll be going around in circles.  Fact:  The Trump ad suggested that Dr. Fauci was complementing Trump on his COVID response.  Dr. Fauci had to come out and say this was absolutely false, he was complementing the federal effort led by the task force and other medical professionals.  Fauci wanted this cleared up because Trump has been of no help and has been mostly an impediment to the work of his and other experts.  Like the NEJM said recently, Trump is "dangerously incompetent." 

6 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

Fact:  The Trump ad suggested that Dr. Fauci was complementing Trump on his COVID response.

He was, the Trump administration at least.

 

6 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

Dr. Fauci had to come out and say this was absolutely false, he was complementing the federal effort led by the task force and other medical professionals. 

He did not say it was absolutely fase, he said it was out of context, which it clearly was not.