'No problem whatsoever': Trump downplays Fauci absence at coronavirus briefing

President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed recommendations that his relationship with Anthony Fauci, the nation’s prime infectious illnesses skilled, may need soured, after Fauci was conspicuously absent from Friday’s news briefing by the White House coronavirus activity drive.

“I don’t know. But every time you ask that query, every time he’s not here, you say, look, the place is he? And also you’ll say, is there a problem? No drawback in any way,” Trump advised CNN’s Jim Acosta, who inquired about Fauci’s absence.

“Every time he’s not here — typically I’ll ask him to come, as a result of that is the primary query you and some others from the pretend information establishment ask is, the place is Dr. Fauci? We’re doing nice work together. Except we're masking a unique topic at this time,” the president continued.

Minutes earlier, nevertheless, a White Home official chalked up Fauci’s disappearance from the every day briefing to a matter of having restricted area onstage in the briefing room.

"We had to social distance. We're saying [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] steerage so we now have the director of the CDC and Surgeon Basic,” the official stated. There have been people on all sides of the stage, which the official stated went to Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Well being and Human Providers Secretary Alex Azar, who spoke about how the government was trying to close insurance gaps for the unemployed.

Fauci has turn into one of the outstanding faces of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, leading to raised eyebrows when he’s not in attendance at the day by day briefing.

The final time Fauci was mysteriously out of sight for White Home coronavirus events, rumors swirled that the president’s endurance with the physician, who has been extra prepared than most administration officials to publicly contradict the president, was sporting thin. Trump denied that there was any friction. But Fauci’s absences coincided with a collection of slightly candid interviews Fauci had given about how he deals with Trump’s misinformation concerning the virus.

And though Trump once more downplayed indicators of potential rigidity with Fauci on Friday, his absence got here a day after Fauci flatly requested why the nation wasn’t beneath a nationwide stay-at-home order from Trump.

“For those who take a look at what’s happening on this country, I simply don’t perceive why we’re not doing that,” he informed CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, adding: “We actually ought to be.”

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