Donald Trump lashed out at Anthony Fauci, a top White House coronavirus task force member, calling him a “disaster” as the US president attempted to deflect attention from his handling of the pandemic with just two weeks until the election.
In a call with his campaign on Monday, Mr Trump played down the severity of the pandemic, which has killed almost 220,000 Americans, and said the public was tired of hearing of warnings from scientists.
“People are tired of listening to Fauci and these idiots,” Mr Trump said, according to reports of the call in US media. “Every day he goes on television, there’s always a bomb, but there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him . . . Fauci is a disaster.”
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