Fauci Says He Hasn’t Briefed Trump in Two Months. That’s the Problem.
On July 10, Anthony Fauci said he had not briefed Trump on the pandemic in at least two months, a brutal encapsulation of how politicized and disconnected the White House coronavirus response had become. The statement landed as cases were surging in multiple states and Trump was still pushing schools and governors to reopen on his timeline, not the virus’s. It was a messaging and management failure at the same time: the president was sidelining the country’s top infectious-disease expert while insisting he had things under control.
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Fauci Says He Hasn’t Briefed Trump in Two Months. That’s the Problem.
On July 10, Anthony Fauci said he had not briefed Trump on the pandemic in at least two months, a brutal encapsulation of how politicized and disconnected the White House coronavirus response had become. The statement landed as cases were surging in multiple states and Trump was still pushing schools and governors to reopen on his timeline, not the virus’s. It was a messaging and management failure at the same time: the president was sidelining the country’s top infectious-disease expert while …
On July 10, Anthony Fauci said he had not briefed Trump on the pandemic in at least two months, a brutal encapsulation of how politicized and disconnected the White House coronavirus response had become. The statement landed as cases were surging in multiple states and Trump was still pushing schools and governors to reopen on his timeline, not the virus’s. It was a messaging and management failure at the same time:…
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