Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign and that his comments were taken out of context.
Keeping Canada, U.S. border closed may help ‘keep lid’ on coronavirus numbers: Fauci The ad, released last week, discusses Trump’s effort to recover from the coronavirus personally, as well as his administration’s work to address the pandemic.
The 30-second spot uses older remarks from Fauci in a way that suggests he was praising the president.“I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more,” the ad shows Fauci saying.But those remarks are from a March interview, where Fauci, who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since.