Thanks for the response. I can certainly appreciate this, but I think what we're reading here is Fauci being tactfully supportive of the administration in order to remain in a position where he can have a positive impact. People who disagree with Trump have an established history of finding themselves, well, 'fired'. Trump's
own words tell a pretty clear story:
"I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
So, good for Fauci for being a team player; it doesn't change the indisputable fact that the record of Trump's own words (not just the above quote) prove that he, at best, misled the public and handicapped the effective efforts of our institutions to deal with this pandemic, both proactively and reactively. If you can't see this, I hope you'll consider whether you're subjecting yourself to dogmatic thinking (i.e. accepting ideas, beliefs, etc. as definitive simply because they came from a perceived authority). Think, my man, and let the other side of the coin take root just enough to doubt your own beliefs a little bit.
I could copy/paste the entire article cited below (there are countless of these, if you don't like the source), which is nothing more than a contrast of Trump's recorded words to Bob Woodward vs. how he twisted those same points when presenting them to the American public. That's a bit heavy-handed, so I'll just include the link here, and encourage you to read it and draw your own conclusions.
Trump’s public remarks about the coronavirus were very different from what he told a journalist one-on-one.
www.vox.com