The infectious disease specialist will throw the Opening Day pitch in DC as the New York Yankees take on the World Series champion Nationals.
” Thats Peter Navarro, but I have an extremely good relationship with Dr. Fauci,” Trump informed press reporters in the Oval Office.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany recently denied a Washington Post report that stated press reporters were offered “opposition research study” to reject Fauci, including his previous remarks that the public didnt need to use masks.
White House coronavirus job force member Dr. Anthony Fauci will toss out the first pitch on Thursday as baseball returns amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci, 79, has actually been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases because 1984. His willingness to criticize the United States coronavirus action has actually made him a hero to critics of President Trump and a target of some Republicans.
Trump distanced himself last week from White House trade consultant Peter Navarros op-ed stating Fauci ” has been wrong about whatever.”
” There is no opposition research being discarded to press reporters,” McEnany stated. “We were asked an extremely specific question by the Washington Post, and that concern was President Trump noted that Dr. Fauci had made some errors, and we offered a direct response to what was a direct question.”
” Dr. Fauci has been a real champ for our nation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout his prominent career, so it is just fitting that we honor him as we begin the 2020 season and protect our World Series Championship title,” the Nationals stated in a statement.
This is one curve he may not wish to flatten …
Fauci said recently that COVID-19 cases are surging in the South and Southwest due to the fact that “we did not closed down entirely.”
