Fauci: I Couldn’t Be Complicit In Trump’s COVID Lies

“I have such a great deal of respect for the office of the presidency that it just made me very uncomfortable, but I had to do it, Chris, because I couldn’t stand there and be complicit in saying hydroxychloroquine works when it doesn’t.

“You know, ‘bleach works.’ It doesn’t. ‘The virus is going to go away like magic.’ It’s not. In order to maintain my own scientific and personal integrity, and most importantly, fulfill my responsibility to the American public, I had to do that.

“I had difficulty in that administration. I felt very uncomfortable about having to publicly get up at the White House press room and being put on the spot to directly disagree with the President.

“And that’s how I evolved essentially, in the, you know, public enemy number one of the far-right, which I did not desire to be put in that position.

“If I become a punching bag, I’m a punching bag. But I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee, I have nothing to hide.

“I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done. So you know, it’s going to be inconvenient if they actually are out there, essentially threatening to make my life miserable.

“But I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all.” – Anthony Fauci, speaking to CNN’s Chris Wallace.