美国前副总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)的竞选团队对特朗普政府试图抹黑安东尼·福西(Anthony Fauci)的行为提出了尖锐的指责。安东尼·福西是美国顶级传染病医生之一，也是白宫冠状病毒大流行特别工作组的成员。
拜登竞选团队发言人安德鲁贝茨(Andrew Bates)在向ABC新闻网(ABC News)提供的一份声明中表示:“总统试图推卸责任的令人厌恶的做法是，把责任推给国内最顶尖的传染病专家——他一再无视这位专家的建议，而乔拜登(Joe Biden)也一再恳求他接受这一建议——这是又一次可怕的失败，暴露了领导层的失败，因为死亡人数继续不必要地增加。”
拜登作出回应之际，白宫已向几家媒体提供了一份文件，其中包含福西试图损害其声誉的一系列评论。
美国广播公司新闻部从证实福西被抹黑的消息来源处获得了这份文件，其中一部分内容是“几位白宫官员对福西在一些事情上的失误次数感到担忧。”
“超过135，000名美国人丧生，数千万人失业，因为唐纳德·特朗普在过去的六个月里，我灾难性地错误处理了一个世纪以来最严重的公共卫生危机，一直没有听从医学专家的警告和指导，尤其是福西博士。贝茨在声明中说:“美国的艾滋病感染人数激增，远远超过了世界上所有其他国家，特别是因为特朗普拒绝听科学。”
拜登本人似乎在周一下午的一条推文中回应了这些新报道。
这位前副总统在推特上写道:“唐纳德·特朗普需要花更少的时间打高尔夫，花更多的时间听听像福西博士这样的专家的意见。”
2020年6月30日，在华盛顿国会山举行的参议院健康、教育、劳工和养老金委员会听证会上，国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福西博士作证。凯文·迪特施/路透社，档案
这份文件发布之际，两位白宫高层人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，福西有时被总统的助手们称为“忧郁与毁灭博士。”
尽管特朗普自己的政府发出了备忘录，但他在周一下午辩称，他与福西关系良好，尽管两人并不总是意见一致。
“我和福西博士关系很好。我已经有很长一段时间了，从一开始。我发现他是一个非常好的人。我并不总是同意他的观点。”“所以我们做了很多好的决定，但是不，我和他相处得很好。我个人很喜欢他。”
福西还没有对来自白宫的攻击做出回应，尽管他周一公开露面讨论冠状病毒大流行，称“我们甚至还没有开始看到它的结束”，但他对可能的治疗和疫苗前景表示乐观。
除了这份声明，拜登竞选团队还在一份14页的文件中针对特朗普总统，强调了总统在整个COVID-19大流行期间发表的声明，这些声明与包括福西在内的多位卫生专家在疫苗、检测可用性以及COVID的其他治疗方法方面的声明相矛盾。
竞选团队的声明是对特朗普政府未能控制美国冠状病毒爆发的最新批评——可追溯到几个月前。
特朗普周五在接受Telemundo采访时为他的政府对COVID-19的处理进行了辩护，暗示佛罗里达州和德克萨斯州等州最近的案件激增将很快得到控制。
奥巴马总统周五在接受采访时说:“我们正在赢得这场战争。”“我们的测试远远优于任何人，所以我们现在已经测试了近4500万人，这是很大的帮助，但它突然在他们认为结束的地区，那将是佛罗里达州，得克萨斯州，其他几个地方。他们...他们将很快控制住局面。”
拜登此前曾承诺要求福西留任，称赞他“为国家做出了不可思议的贡献”，并发誓他会听从总统的建议。
“我将成为一位尊重科学家的总统，不会审查他们直接对美国人民说话的能力。”我会立即联系安东尼·福西博士，请他继续为国家做出他不可思议的贡献。从第一天开始，我就准备好了，最好的医学专家和科学家会对我们的反应提出建议。也许最重要的是，我会倾听他们，让他们畅所欲言。”拜登在德尔威尔明顿的一次演讲中说。六月下旬。
Biden campaign slams Trump for ‘disgusting’ attempt to discredit Fauci
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the country’s top infectious disease doctors, and member of the White House coronavirus pandemic task force.
"The president's disgusting attempt to pass the buck by blaming the top infectious disease expert in the country -- whose advice he repeatedly ignored and Joe Biden consistently implored him to take -- is yet another horrible and revealing failure of leadership as the tragic death toll continues to needlessly grow,” Andrew Bates, Biden campaign spokesman said in a statement provided first to ABC News.
Biden’s response comes as the White House has provided a document to several media outlets that contains a list of comments made by Fauci in an effort to damage his reputation.
The document, obtained by ABC News from sources who confirmed the effort to discredit Fauci, says in part that "several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things."
“Over 135,000 Americans have lost their lives and tens of millions have lost their jobs becauseDonald Trumpspent the last six months disastrously mismanaging the worst public health crisis in a century, the whole time failing to heed the warnings and guidance of medical experts -- particularly Dr. Fauci. Infections in the United States have skyrocketed, surpassing every other country in the world by far, specifically because of Trump's refusal to listen to science,” Bates said in the statement.
Biden himself appeared to respond to the new reports in a tweet Monday afternoon.
“Donald Trump needs to spend less time playing golf and more time listening to experts like Dr. Fauci,” the former vice president tweeted.
The news of the document comes as two senior level White House sources tell ABC News that Fauci has at times been referred to among aides to the president as "Dr. Gloom and Doom."
Despite the memo from his own administration, Trump argued Monday afternoon that he has a good relationship with Fauci, even if the two do not always see eye to eye.
"I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci. I've had for a long time, right from the beginning. I find him to be a very nice person. I don't always agree with him," Trump said. "So we've made a lot of good decisions, but no, I get along with him very well. I like him personally,” Trump told reporters.
Fauci has yet to respond to the attacks from the White House, despite appearing publicly Monday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that “We haven't even begun to see the end of it yet,” but expressed optimism about possible treatments and vaccines on the horizon.
Along with the statement, the Biden campaign took aim at President Trump in a 14-page document highlighting statements from the president throughout the COVID-19 pandemic which have been contradicted by various health experts, including Fauci, on vaccines, testing availability, and other treatments for COVID.
The campaign’s statement is the latest example of criticism --going back months-- of the Trump administration’s failure to get a hold of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
Trump defended his administration’s handling of COVID-19 during an interview with Telemundo Friday, suggesting that recent spikes in cases in states like Florida and Texas would soon be under control.
“We are winning the war,” the president said in an interview Friday. “Our testing is far superior to anybody's, so we've now tested almost 45 million people, and that's helping greatly, but it flared up in areas where they thought it was ending, and that would be Florida, Texas, a couple of other places. And they... they're going to have it under control very quickly.”
Biden had previously committed asking Fauci to remain in his role, praising his ‘incredible service to the country,’ and vowing he would heed his advice as president.
“ I'll be a president who respects scientists, who won't censor their ability to speak directly to the American people. I will immediately reach out to Dr. Anthony Fauci to ask him to continue his incredible service to the country. And I'll have, from Day One, ready to go, the best medical experts and scientists to advise on our response. Maybe most importantly, I will listen to them and let them speak freely.” Biden said during a speech in Wilmington, Del. in late June.
