By Martin Pengelly
the Guardian
July 28, 2020
Dr Anthony Fauci insisted on Tuesday he had “not been misleading the American public under any circumstances” — countering a claim by Donald Trump that he had.
The director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases has become a trusted public voice on the coronavirus pandemic.
He was speaking the morning after Sinclair, an influential broadcaster with links to the US president, dropped an interview on a widely syndicated TV show in which the researcher behind the Plandemic conspiracy theory claimed Fauci made the coronavirus and sent it to Wuhan, China.