During an interview on CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to minimize the severity of former President Donald Trump’s injuries from the recent assassination attempt, describing his wound from the bullet that grazed his head as “superficial.”
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases emphasized that the injury did not appear to be too serious and tried to reassure the public about Trump’s condition.
Mediate transcribed the interview between CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and the former adviser to Trump and Biden.
FAUCI: You know, I don’t think there is much more to it. I mean, from what we’ve seen and what we’ve heard, it was, it was a bullet shot that grazed his ear and injured his ear, according to the physicians who examined him. There was no other further damage.
So I think that with regard to the health related purely to the bullet itself, I think he’s he’s in the clear as far as I can see. I mean, it’s dangerous to make diagnoses from a distance from what I’m seeing, the way he’s acting now and what his physicians report saw. It seems to have been a superficial wound to the ear, and that’s all.
BLITZER: I just want to just read one line, from, chief medical correspondent. Doctor Sanjay Gupta who said this, and I’ll read it to you. This is, this is, Doctor Sanjay Gupta saying gunshot blast near the head can cause injuries that aren’t immediately noticeable, such as bleeding in or on the brain, damage to the inner ear, or even psychological trauma, as you know. He’s a neurosurgeon. What do you make of that?
FAUCI: Well, I mean, I know Sanjay’s a good friend. He’s got a good clinical judgment. He’s a practicing neurosurgeon. So, again, it’s very difficult from a distance when you’re not examining someone yourself to make any projection about it.
I’m just commenting on what I’m seeing superficially, I would imagine, Wolf, that his physicians did some studying. They very likely did an imaging study being a CT or an MRI or what have you. I don’t know that as a fact, but I would think that that would be a reasonable thing to do following an encounter the way he had with a bullet.
Despite Fauci’s assessment, Gupta also noted that the former president could be dealing with “psychological trauma” after the shooting, which killed one rallygoer and left two others seriously hurt.
Earlier in the day, Gupta concluded, “The good news is that most physical symptoms of an injury would probably have revealed themselves over the past few days.”
Ho hum the ‘opinion’ of a discredited (for a multitude of reasons) doctor – who hasn’t actually seen or treated a patient in decades is just that. Granted, the wound turned out to be relatively minor but for the last second turning of his head that wound would likely have been fatal. Bottom line, most of us could care less about his opinion.
Fauci is a small man with a huge ego. He is a sorry excuse for a human. His many lies caused many deaths, since he said he was an expert on science. What a joke that drifter is.
Put one in fake fauci’s head….see if it’s superficial.
I would like to see just how long Fauci would last if he was put out on the street of any city in America without body guards.
Will he volunteer to have a one-inch hole punched in his year? That’s what it turned out to be: two centimeters/ an inch hole!
Hi also didn’t think that injecting millions of people with poison would be a problem. Thank my God that I never fell for his madness. However, I have plenty of family and friends who are suffering from the long time effects of his “Science “ If he wasn’t so evil this would be funny.