But Fauci wasn’t saying what McEnany suggested. First off, Fauci was talking more broadly about the federal response. Fauci later tempered his comments, saying that his reference to “a lot of pushback” was “the wrong choice of words.”When asked if he was amending his comments to please Trump, Fauci bristled. “Please, don’t even imply that.”ADBut Fauci’s comments certainly indicated there were holes in the federal response, if not necessarily holes that he blamed on Trump. And McEnany’s suggestion that Fauci was saying the federal — or even Trump’s — response was beyond question is directly contradicted by Fauci’s comments about testing in mid-March.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 19:50 UTC