Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top expert on infectious diseases, said during an interview that aired on Sunday that former President Donald Trump’s vocal support for citizens to push back against stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic “hit me like a punch in the chest.”
In a new CNN special report, Fauci said he was taken aback by Trump calling for states to reopen their governments beginning in mid-April last year, especially in the face of thousands of new COVID-19 infections and an alarming death rate.
Trump lacked the ability to lift the health restrictions that individual states put into place, so he sought to influence the debate and direct anti-lockdown sentiments mostly toward Democratic governors like Ralph Northam of Virginia and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
“The thing that hit me like a punch to the chest was then all of a sudden he got up and said ‘Liberate Virginia, Liberate Michigan,'” Fauci said of the former president. “And I said to myself, ‘Oh my goodness. What is going on here?'”
He added: “It shocked me because it was such a jolt to what we were trying to do.”
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"The thing that hit me like a punch to the chest was then all of a sudden he got up and said 'Liberate Virginia, Liberate Michigan,'" Fauci said of the former president. "And I said to myself, 'Oh my goodness. What is going on here?'" https://t.co/anSsIXtVHe
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 29, 2021
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