Trump attacked Fauci's advice and boasted of ignoring government experts in his coronavirus response
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- President Donald Trump has said he disagrees with Dr. Anthony Fauci's assessment of how serious the coronavirus is in the US, according to multiple reports.
- In a coming interview with GrayTV, Trump boasted that "I didn't listen to my experts" early in his response to the disease.
- The US has seen unprecedented numbers of new cases, prompting Fauci to comment Monday that the situation was "really not good."
- But Trump said he thought the US was "in a good place," characterizing the major surge in cases in Florida as "spiking up a little bit."
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President Donald Trump has criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci and boasted about not listening to government experts while working out his response to the coronavirus.
In an interview with the former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, the president said he disagreed with earlier comments from Fauci that the US was still "knee-deep in the first wave" of the coronavirus crisis.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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