House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci should disagree with President Trump more publicly when he makes false or misleading claims about the coronavirus.
“People standing around him, acquiescing to him. What? Doesn’t anybody know or care or have any commitment to science and evidence and data and fact and truth?” Pelosi said Monday on the Late Late Show with James Corden.
Fauci over the weekend told CNN he received “a lot of pushback” from the Trump administration when he advocated for shutting down the country early on before the coronavirus broke out in the United States.
Those comments led some in media to speculate if Trump would fire Fauci from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Trump said on Monday he and Fauci are on the same page, and that the doctor’s job is secure.
“Why anybody standing there while the president misrepresents the facts day in and day out is beyond me, but you’ll have to ask him why he’s there and what he thinks he should be doing,” Pelosi said. “He’s a great scientist, I’ve worked with him for decades.”
