Trump admits he made mistakes in the coronavirus response, but says he “will eventually be right.”
President Donald Trump He defended his relationship with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, but called him “a bit of an alarmist” when he answered questions about the White House relationship with him during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
During the conversation, Trump he finally admitted that he himself had made some mistakes in the response of the coronavirusBut he said he “would eventually be right” in reference to his past prediction that the virus would go away.
When asked if the White House provided documents describing Fauci’s mistakes at the start of the pandemic and the efforts of some administration officials to discredit the nation’s top infectious expert, the president criticized him when he used the term ” a bit alarmist ”and noted that Fauci was wrong in a series of events surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, including his original stance on masks.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci had asked the public not to go out and buy the N-95 masks because they were needed by health professionals. Now he has strongly advocated that people use some form of facial covering.
The president also claimed that Fauci told him not to prohibit travel from ChinaBut then he told her that the decision “saved tens of thousands of lives.” At the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci raised some questions about how effective such a ban could be.
Fox’s Chris Wallace pressured Trump for his own mistakes, to which the president replied, “I think everyone makes mistakes,” adding that he “would eventually be right” about the pandemic.
When Wallace asked if his mistakes discredited him, the president said he did not believe it because “he was probably right more than anyone else.”
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