Fauci calls White House effort to discredit him 'bizarre,' a mistake

U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday he did not understand the effort by some in the White House to discredit him and believes it was a big mistake. "You know, it is a bit bizarre. I don't really fully understand it," Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic.

U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday he did not understand the effort by some in the White House to discredit him and believes it was a big mistake.

"You know, it is a bit bizarre. I don't really fully understand it," Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic. "I think if you talk to reasonable people in the White House they realize that was a major mistake on their part because it doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them. And I don't think that was their intention."