Conservative economist Stephen Moore is coming after Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Moore, who is an informal adviser to President Trump and a Washington Examiner columnist, said on Monday evening he is working on a policy memo that will point out the mistakes the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has made throughout the course of his professional career.
“We are working on a memo that shows how many times Dr. Fauci’s been wrong during not just [this pandemic], but during his entire career,” Moore told the Daily Beast.
The memo is currently titled “Dr. Wrong,” and Moore said that he and his group plan on sending it to the White House once it’s completed.
“It will document how often his predictions have been not just wrong, but in many cases, fabulously wrong … [and it’ll be] looking at his whole career of making predictions about disease, and trying to show a pattern,” Moore said. “Fauci’s been ‘Dr. Doom’ … and I don’t have a problem with him being ‘Dr. Doom,’ but I have a problem with him being wrong, wrong, wrong. … He’s been a detriment to getting the economy reopened, with a lot of his false predictions.”
The White House, too, has sought to criticize Fauci over his messaging on the coronavirus pandemic amid reports that Trump is spooked by the infectious disease expert’s high approval ratings.
Over the weekend, Trump’s aides released to the media a list of comments made by Fauci early on in the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to discredit him.
The president retweeted a message from former game show host and Trump supporter Chuck Woolery, who said Democrats, doctors, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are all lying about the virus in an effort to hurt Trump’s chances of being reelected.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany assured reporters later in the day that the two have a “very good working relationship.”
