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“It Is What It Is”: Anthony Fauci Deploys Scorsese Quote To Deflect Question Over Trump’s Culpability

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Brooklyn-born immunologist and leading member of Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force Dr. Anthony Fauci went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to perform his usual magic: speak medical truth without offending Trump, who doesn’t want to hear it. When Jake Tapper peppered him with hypotheticals, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shrugged and (perhaps inadvertently) quoted the catch-all phrase from Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated mob epic The Irishman: “It is what it is.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Tapper’s questioning stemmed from that he and others in Trump’s administration were recommending social distancing guidelines for weeks before the president finally relented. Fauci neither confirmed nor denied the report, and, through tone and body language, expressed what it can be like working in the Trump White House. “We look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Often, the recommendation is taken. Sometimes, it’s not.”As Tapper pressed on, asking if quicker action could have saved lives, Fauci managed to refrain from shouting “no duh!” and ultimately replied, with supreme diplomacy, “I mean, obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”Dr. Fauci’s have been an informative blast of toxin-free air during this crisis. The 79-year-old with a 52-year career in public health has an uncanny ability to both but also with the boss to stay on his good side. One could even watch his on a Zapruder-esque loop and wonder if he was shielding himself from cameras during an anti-Trump cringe, or was he actually laughing along with the president during his Deep State dig? We’ll never really know, and we’ll just have to live with that.To quote The Irishman, it is what it is.More Great Stories From Vanity Fair— : Dispatches From New York City Under Lockdown— How the Coronavirus Crisis— Inside the Viral Spread of a — Progressives Chafe at — and the Failure of the Elites— From the Archive: , the Virus That Threatened PandemicLooking for more? for our daily Hive newsletter and never miss a story.Most Popular is a Queens, New York–based writer who has been contributing to Vanity Fair since 2014. His work can also be read in The Guardian, the A.V. Club, the Times of Israel, and elsewhere. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, has published a book... The freshest-and most essential-updates from Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley.

Brooklyn-born immunologist and leading member of Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force Dr. Anthony Fauci went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to perform his usual magic: speak medical truth without offending Trump, who doesn’t want to hear it. When Jake Tapper peppered him with hypotheticals, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shrugged and (perhaps inadvertently) quoted the catch-all phrase from Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated mob epic The Irishman: “It is what it is.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Tapper’s questioning...

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“It Is What It Is”: Anthony Fauci Deploys Scorsese Quote To Deflect Question Over Trump’s Culpability

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