Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world's leading infectious disease specialist who just so happens to be, thank God, one of the only credible people on the Trump coronavirus team, was not at Trump’s “briefing” today. It's disturbing when he's not there. But he did an interview with Science magazine, published Sunday night, and oh boy, oh fuck, oh wow.

Regarding Donald Trump's constant corona-lies, particularly the one about how the novel coronavirus is basically cured now thanks to the malaria drug chloroquine:

“I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down. Okay, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.”

In other words, Fauci is openly saying Trump lies during those press conferences, but he can't knock the president over and make him stop talking, not least because that is not proper social distancing.

He says he's trying to get them to go to virtual lie-pressers:

“But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things 1,2,3,4 times, and then it happens. So I'm going to keep pushing.”

He says he hasn't been fired yet, "to my knowledge."

Here is Fauci very diplomatically saying again that Trump lies, just in case you missed it:

Q: You've been in press conferences where things are happening that you disagree with, is that fair to say?

A: Well, I don't disagree in the substance. It is expressed in a way that I would not express it, because it could lead to some misunderstanding about what the facts are about a given subject.

That is what tends to happen, with lies.

This was nice:

Q: You have not said China virus. (Trump frequently calls the cause of the spreading illness known as coronavirus disease 2019 a “China virus” or a “Chinese virus.”)

A: Ever.

Q: And you never will, will you?

A: No.

Interview here:

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