Dr. Anthony Fauci says he had a 'bad feeling' before the White House briefing where Trump floated using disinfectants to treat COVID-19

Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, said in a recent interview that he developed a bad feeling ahead of an April 2020 White House briefing where then- President Donald Trump floated the idea of potentially treating COVID-19 with disinfectants

Fauci said that he was in the White House before the meeting was about to start, but that he wouldn't join Trump on the podium, which would have been seen by millions of Americans.

I didn't want to go up there with this because I had a bad feeling about Homeland Security bringing this guy in. As soon as I heard it, I said, "This is going to go bad" I don't understand why I shouldn't leave this one. Fauci spoke.

Disinfectants could be injected into humans to treat the coronaviruses.

I wonder if there's a way to do something like that by injection inside, or even a cleaning. The president said that it did a lot on the lungs because it got in the lungs.

He said he had sarcasm in his comments.

Fauci gestured and said he would have had to signal a time-out using his hands.

Fauci was a regular at the White House press briefings.

Fauci's appeal became more divided after a conservative backlash to many COVID-19 policies.

By the time President Joe Biden took office last year, Fauci had become a recurring target for many GOP lawmakers, who wanted to tie him to their concerns about the origins of COVID-19.

The National Institute of Health and the Biden administration will be Fauci's last two jobs.