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Fauci: Trump campaign ad takes me out of context
    2020-10-13  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

TOP U.S. Government scientist Anthony Fauci said Sunday that an advertisement aired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign was edited to make him appear to endorse the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 30-second spot seeks to highlight how Trump, who caught COVID-19 this month, and the U.S. economy are recovering from the contagion. It tries to portray the president as taking decisive action despite previously downplaying the disease in public.

“President Trump tackled the virus head on as leaders should,” the narrator says, followed by a short clip of Fauci saying, “I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more.”

Fauci, the most popular face in fighting the coronavirus in the United States, rebuked the use of the small snippet in the ad Sunday, which made it seem as if he was endorsing Trump’s effort. He said in his “nearly five decades of public service” he has never endorsed a candidate publicly.

“The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials,” Fauci said in a statement.

The clip comes from an interview Fauci did in March, where he was talking about how much time he had been devoting to combating the coronavirus.

“I’m down at the White House virtually every day with the task force,” Fauci said at the time. “I’m connected by phone throughout the day and into the night and when I say night, I’m talking twelve, one, two in the morning. I’m not the only one. There’s a whole group of us that are doing that. It’s every single day. So I can’t imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more.”(SD-Agencies)

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