From The Washington Post:
Fauci spent part of the first year of the pandemic working with Trump and trying to counteract the president’s comments downplaying the outbreak — a challenge he detailed in many journal entries.
The first time they met in the Situation Room, on Jan. 29, 2020, they appeared to get along. Fauci wrote: “The President came in and the first thing he said as he looked at me was: ‘Anthony, you are really a famous guy. My good friend Lou Dobbs … told me that you were the one of the smartest, knowledgeable and outstanding persons he knows. He then stayed for 20 minutes and asked most of his questions of me. I was surprised and very pleased and the Deputies were clearly stunned and impressed.”
…But in a pair of entries the next month, Fauci wrote about growing tired of Trump’s “rambling.” March 27, 2020: “Very laborious press conference where the POTUS rambled on. He wasted the opportunity to just focus on the relief package and went into his diatribe against previous administrations.”
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