Trump's ad campaign misleading, claims Dr Anthony Fauci

US: The federal government's top specialist on contagious diseases says a Trump campaign advertisement extolling the president's coronavirus response uses his quote out of context. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells CNN and NBC News on Sunday that he did not provide his consent to incorporate his remarks in the ad published last week. He says that he's never confirmed a nominee during his 50-year profession in public service. The 30-second advertisement televised after President Donald Trump came back to the White House following therapy for COVID-19 at Walter Reed military hospital in Maryland. It displays the president's particular encounter with the virus and his administration's management of the global pandemic. The US has higher than 7 million positive cases of COVID-19, and over 214,000 individuals have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. "President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America," the ad's reciter says. "Together, we rose to meet the challenge, protecting our seniors, getting them life-saving drugs in record time, sparing no expense." It quoted Dr Fauci stating, "I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more." Nevertheless, Fauci wasn't talking regarding Trump when he made the remarks, The Washington Post also reports. He was addressing the White House coronavirus task force's workload during an interview in March. "In my almost five decades of public service, I have never openly supported any political candidate," Fauci told. "The remarks credited to me without my consent in the GOP campaign ad were carried out of connection from a broad comment I made months ago concerning the efforts of federal public health executives." The Trump campaign didn't reply to inquiries for an explanation. However, no political leader of the party worker has made any comment on this issue and kept silent.

Trump's ad campaign misleading, claims Dr Anthony Fauci

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