Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday after the nation’s leading infectious disease expert blamed “mixed messages” out of Washington and politicization of safety measures for the high number of coronavirus fatalities in the U.S.
Meadows, during an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle”, claimed the “only thing consistent about Dr. Fauci is his inconsistency.”
“Dr. Fauci is the same one that said that every recommendation he made to President Trump … President Trump followed,” Meadows told host Laura Ingraham.
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Fauci, the current White House chief medical adviser, in an interview Sunday, pointed to the “divisiveness in our country,” as a reason for the high COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. — which recently surpassed 530,000 fatalities since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
“We had such divisiveness in our country that even simple, commonsense public health measures took on a political connotation,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Today” show. “If you wanted to wear a mask, you were on this side. If you wanted to stay in and avoid congregate settings, you were on this side. It wasn’t a pure public health approach. It was really very much influenced by the divisiveness that we had in this country.”
But Meadows raised some objections after viewing a video clip of Fauci’s remarks.
“It’s interesting now that we have a new administration, we have a new Dr. Fauci that seems to forget some of the conversations that he and I had,” Meadows said. “And if we want to go ahead and just lay it all out there, I’ll be glad to come on your show with Dr. Fauci and we’ll compare notes from conversations that he and I had.”
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