White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said trade advisor Peter Navarro's attack on Dr. Fauci was an 'independent action'

• White House trade advisor Peter Navarro published an op-ed Tuesday attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, claiming that everything that the infectious disease expert has told him about the pandemic "has been wrong."
• Fauci, who also serves on the White House coronavirus task force, has become the nation's leading source for insight amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.
• On Wednesday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told pool reporters that Navarro's attacks were an "independent actions" and were "not supported overtly or covertly by anybody in the West Wing."
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The White House is distancing itself from trade advisor Peter Navarro's Tuesday attacks on infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci.

On Tuesday, Navarro published a scathing op-ed for USA Today on Tuesday, claiming that everything that Fauci had told him about the pandemic was "wrong" — from mask wearing and social distancing to hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment.

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