https://townhall.com/columnists/larryoconnor/2020/03/24/fauci-to-media-stop-trying-to-pit-me-against-trump-n2565595
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the Trump Administration’s point players on the Coronavirus Task Force, is sick and tired of media jackals trying to pit him against the president and create division, discord, and distrust within the president’s team and the American people.
Fauci appeared on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning and he spoke passionately about how the media has mischaracterized his relationship with the president and has tried to drive a wedge between them.
“It seems like increasingly a bunch of the questions from the media are designed to create a rift between you and the president of the United States,” asked co-host Vince Coglianese, “are you sensing that as the media continually asks you questions about the differences you have with him?”
“That is really unfortunate. I would wish that that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences,” Fauci said. “There really, fundamentally at the core when you look at things, there are not differences. The president has listened to what I have said and what the other people on the task force have said. When I’ve made recommendations, he has taken them. He has never countered or overridden me. The idea of pitting one against the other is just not helpful. I wish that would stop and we’d look ahead at the challenge we have to pull together to get over this thing.”