{"id":33194,"date":"2021-03-22T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33194"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:58:27","slug":"trump-says-fauci-a-promoter-more-than-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33194","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Fauci &#8216;a promoter more than anything&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qsnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmsgsgg_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a=&amp;b=37768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qsnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmsgsgg_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a%3D%26b%3D37768&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616539376381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzn9oRpYqvHOFvykL6xmwMW02KAg\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0in an interview released Monday labeled the nation&#8217;s top infectious diseases expert,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xvcsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddhrhrb_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a=&amp;b=37768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xvcsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddhrhrb_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a%3D%26b%3D37768&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616539376381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNESbDhMzZIwnXgUvZozCKBqFdKimg\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>, \u201ca promoter more than anything\u201d after the two sometimes clashed on the nation&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought rather than firing him, you know, I listened to him, but I didn&#8217;t do what he said because, frankly, his record is not a good record,\u201d Trump told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/esppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrybybz_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a=&amp;b=37768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/esppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrybybz_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a%3D%26b%3D37768&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616539376381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjEZ10C6BnrcS0etPOVbD9gu9C4Q\">podcast<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe Truth with Lisa Boothe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like him personally,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cHe\u2019s actually a nice guy. He&#8217;s a great promoter. He&#8217;s really a promoter more than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he regretted &#8220;elevating&#8221; Fauci, Trump said, &#8220;Well, I didn&#8217;t really elevate him. He&#8217;s been there for 40 years. He&#8217;s been there forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump said Fauci has been \u201cwrong so much\u201d on COVID-19 recommendations, citing his early advice against masks that aligned with other experts at the time over a concern that there would not be enough protective equipment for health care workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0President Trump\u00a0in an interview released Monday&#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":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194","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=33194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33195,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions\/33195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}