Dr. Anthony Fauci took shots at Fox News’s Laura Ingraham and Dr. Scott Atlas during a discussion with MSNBC host Ari Melber on Tuesday about his relationship with former President Trump as one of the main faces of the Coronavirus Task Force.
The former White House chief medical advisor claimed Trump desperately wanted a “magical solution” to make COVID disappear.
“I believe he wanted so badly for this to go away the way influenza goes away, and when he saw it was not going away, then he was hoping for some magical solution, and he even used those words, ‘It’s going to go away like magic,’” Fauci said during the interview. “And then when that didn’t work, then we had to have these miracle cures like hydroxychloroquine, which he got from Laura Ingraham on Fox News. And then after that he would bring in somebody like Scott Atlas who would tell him what he wanted to hear, it was tough.”
Atlas fired back during an interview with Ingraham where the two discussed Fauci’s potshots.
“If it weren’t so morally repugnant to watch him, it would be comical. Let’s be very clear here, Fauci’s legacy is presiding over the biggest failure, the most immoral disaster of public health fiasco in history with his sidekick Deborah Birx,” Atlas said. “And their legacy is very clear. It’s not just the millions of people damaged, harmed and killed by his policies. It’s not just the long-lasting damage on children, particularly, poor kids. It’s also bigger things like personally destroying the trust in science and public health guidance. I’m not sure that’s even reparable.”
"Fauci...presided over the biggest failure, most immoral disaster in publ health history:
— The Independent with Scott Atlas (@ScottAtlas_IT) June 19, 2024
Millions harmed/killed by his policies;
Lasting damage to kids/poor;
Destroyed trust in science; hateful division
Most awful legacy in modern history" https://t.co/yLvQMLhKHV @IngrahamAngle