美国或将迎疫情“至暗时刻”，特朗普却炮轰福奇“白痴”，福奇用这句电影台词回怼

据CBS报道，当地时间19日，福克斯新闻公布了美国总统特朗普与竞选团队成员通话的一段电话录音。录音中特朗普将美国顶级传染病专家安东尼·福奇博士（Dr. Anthony Fauci）等警告大家新冠病毒危险的人士称为“白痴”，还炮轰福奇就是个“灾难”。

In a call with Trump campaign staff Monday, US President Trump tore into the nation's leading infectious diseases expert and coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying people have become tired of "Fauci and all these idiots" warning about the risks of COVID-19.

特朗普声称，美国人民已经厌倦了新冠病毒，也厌倦了福奇和“所有这些白痴的声音”，“这些人（卫生官员）把事情搞错了。”

"People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong," the president told his staff on the state-of-play of the race.

特朗普还疯狂甩锅：“福奇这家伙就是个灾难，如果我听了他的，我们可能有50万人死亡。”不一会儿，他又补充道，“如果我们听了他的话，我们现在就有70-80万人死亡。”

“Fauci is a disaster, I mean this guy, if I listened to him we’d have 500,000 deaths.” Trump said if the White House had listened to Fauci, the U.S. would have "500,000 deaths."

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"But Fauci, if we listened to him, we'd have 700, 800,000 deaths right now," the president said.

录音中，特朗普还反讽现年79岁的福奇，“他是个好人，他在这儿已经有500年了。”

The president at another point called Fauci a “nice” man, but in a backhanded way.

“He’s been here for 500 years,” Trump said of Fauci, who is 79 years old.

“每次福奇上电视，都会有个‘炸弹’新闻。如果你解雇他，那就会有个更大的‘炸弹’了”。

“Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb," Trump said. "But there's a bigger bomb if you fire him."

据CNN报道，该录音曝光后数小时，特朗普又发推继续攻击福奇，称福奇在节目上说白宫不允许他接受电视采访，但“昨晚我却看到他出现在《60分钟》的节目上。似乎他在电视上露面的次数堪比鲍勃·霍普（Bob Hope）”（注：鲍勃·霍普是已故美国知名喜剧演员）。

此外，特朗普还写道，他只是希望福奇能够作出更好的决定，但福奇给出的意见却是“不用戴口罩”和“可以让中国参与进来”。

据《国会山报》报道，当天晚些时候，对于特朗普在录音中的攻击，福奇在南加州广播电台的采访中回应说：

“我不想对此发表评论，我们要做的是继续做真正想做的事情，那就是保护美国人，最终是保护全世界的健康、福祉和安全。美国新冠病例激增，比以往任何时候都要快。很多过去表现不错的州现在都出现了病例增长，这是我们应该关注的问题。”

In an interview with Southern California AM radio station KNX1070, Fauci was asked to respond to Trump reportedly calling him "a disaster" during a campaign call earlier in the day.

“I would prefer not to comment on that and just get on with what we are really trying to do and what we are trying to do is to protect the health and welfare and safety of the American people predominantly, and ultimately, of the world," he said. "We are seeing an uptick in cases — higher than they’ve ever been. Many, many states that had been doing reasonably well are now showing upticks, that’s what we should be concentrating on."