Dr. Fauci unloads on Trump 'It's a liberating feeling to let the science speak'

A liberated Dr. Anthony Fauci made it clear Thursday he's happy to be working for President Joe Biden, talking down the restrictions he felt operating under Donald Trump.

Fauci spoke at a White House Coronavirus press briefing, for the first time since this spring and let his true feelings on Trump known.

He didn't mention the former president by name but he was clear about the differences of working under a new administration in combating covid.

'One of the new things in this administration is: if you don't know the answer, don't guess. Just say you don't know the answer,' he said, comparing his first day working for Biden to his months of work on Trump's coronavirus pandemic task force.

'One of the things that was very clear as recently as about 15 minutes ago, when I was with the president, is that one of the things that we're going to do is to be completely transparent open and honest if things go wrong.

'Not point fingers but to correct them and to make everything we do be based on science and evidence. I mean that was literally a conversation I had 15 minutes ago with the president, and he has said that multiple times,' he said.

Given his new, free-speaking style, he was asked if there was anything he wanted to clarify or amend that he said during the Trump administration.

'No, I mean I always said everything,' Fauci said. 'That's why I got trouble sometimes.'

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