⁍ Trump and Fauci have been at odds over how best to handle a pandemic that has killed more than 219,000 people in the United States.

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⁍ Fauci has openly complained about being cited in a Trump re-election campaign advertisement.

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⁍ Trump called news stories about internal strife ‘bullshit

– With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump was calling into a conference call meant to reassure his campaign staff that he’s still got a chance to win, Politico reports. “We have momentum at the exact time that we want momentum,” campaign manager Bill Stepien said on the call. “This is the best I’ve ever felt.” According to Reuters, Trump called coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci a “disaster” during the call. “If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” Trump said during the call, which the campaign allowed reporters to join. Trump and Fauci have been at odds over how best to handle a pandemic that has killed more than 219,000 people in the US and weakened the Republican president’s case for re-election. Trump and Fauci have been at odds over how best to handle a pandemic that has killed more than 219,000 people in the US and weakened the Republican president’s case for re-election. Trump has suggested the worst has passed. Fauci has openly complained about being cited in a Trump re-election campaign ad that discussed the administration’s pandemic response, and said in an interview broadcast on Sunday night by CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ that he was not surprised Trump himself contracted the virus. Trump, speaking from his signature hotel in Las Vegas ahead of two rallies in Arizona, said Fauci bombed during TV interviews but that it would be “a bigger bomb if you fire him. People are saying: ‘Whatever. Just leave us alone.’ They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.”