{"id":31045,"date":"2021-01-25T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31045"},"modified":"2021-01-25T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:23:15","slug":"faucis-tour-of-post-trump-interviews-continues-he-says-trump-pressured-him-to-be-more-positive-on-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31045","title":{"rendered":"Fauci\u2019s tour of post-Trump interviews continues: He says Trump pressured him to be &#8216;more positive&#8217; on pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wdnzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfjffdg_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a=&amp;b=36411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wdnzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfjffdg_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36411&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611704223975000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGdN8-zKlS4gnpDJdjmSOkE1XhZhQ\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vfgmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfryrrfg_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a=&amp;b=36411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vfgmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfryrrfg_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36411&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611704223975000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHB_guyhM4oYHOFcO-la0Y5UjLtPQ\">told The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmjqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzhzzmw_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a=&amp;b=36411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmjqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzhzzmw_wssdggvlvbdsddsdsnjf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36411&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611704223975000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFVvCCfD9NeOM9lk0qaNR1Jck_jZg\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0pressured him to offer more sunny projections about the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a couple of times where I would make a statement that was a pessimistic viewpoint about what direction we were going, and the president would call me up and say, \u2018Hey, why aren\u2019t you more positive? You\u2019ve got to take a positive attitude. Why are you so negativistic? Be more positive,\u2019 \u201d Fauci told the newspaper in an interview published Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Trump offered reasons for wanting more optimistic public statements, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the then-president \u201cdidn\u2019t get into the whys or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[H]e didn\u2019t do that kind of specificity. He just expressed disappointment,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci\u00a0told The New York Times\u00a0that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31046,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31045\/revisions\/31046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}