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(Washington) President Donald Trump attacked his COVID coordinator on Monday - 16, the D re Deborah Birx, whom he accuses of having yielded to pressure from the Democratic opposition by being too pessimistic about the pandemic.
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Mrs Birx told CNN news channel on Sunday that the United States has entered a "new phase" of the health crisis and people in rural areas of the country, by far the most bereaved in the world by COVID - 16, were not immune.
"Deborah took the hook and hit us. Pitiful! Donald Trump commented Monday on Twitter.
The Republican billionaire believes that the doctor, responsible for coordinating the White House response to the pandemic, has not adopted this tone anymore alarmist that after being attacked by one of the leaders of the Democratic opposition, Nancy Pelosi.
"The president spreads disinformation on the virus and she [la D re Birx] is his megaphone", had denounced on the ABC channel the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The White House initially stepped up to defend its specialist.
"He is extremely irresponsible on the part of M me Pelosi to constantly undermine the D re Birx and instill mistrust of her among the public ", had notably tweeted Alyssa Farah, director of the communication from the US executive.
Donald Trump used a different tone on Monday.
"Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about D re Deborah Birx and lashed out at her because she was too positive about the great work we do to fight against the Chinese virus [...] In order to answer Nancy, Deborah bit the hook and hit us on it. Pitiful! ", He launched.
The president has already distanced himself for several weeks from immunologist Anthony Fauci, member of the White House crisis cell on the pandemic.
He accused this highly respected figure in the United States of being too "alarmist" and said last week that he found it unfair that the rating of popularity of the doctor is significantly higher than his.
