Much of their relationship, Fauci wrote, involved Trump alternately praising him then excoriating him for things he’d said about the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci appears beside Donald Trump at a 2020 press briefing on COVID-19. In his last conversation with Trump shortly before the 2020 election, Fauci reportedly wrote, Trump insisted he’d beat now-President Joe Biden and used some some colorful language to describe the Democrat. “I am going to win this election by a fucking landslide,” Trump said, according to Fauci’s book. Fauci also said Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, was abnormally deferential to Trump.

Source: Huffington Post June 15, 2024 01:01 UTC