"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate. The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," Fauci said in a statement Sunday.
Reminder that Trump is weaponizing the coronavirus and Dr. Fauchi for partisan political purposes and using his comments without his approval and without context. These are public comments so one can argue they don't need his approval for use, but it's pretty obvious that they didn't get his approval because they knew he wouldn't sign off on them intentionally misrepresenting his words.