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Donald Trump reportedly grew furious at the nation’s top expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Antony Fauci, for suggesting that the economy would need to stay locked down for an extended period in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Now, Fauci was noticeably missing from Trump’s latest public briefing on the spread of the virus, replaced on Monday by Attorney General William Barr.
As Reuters reported, Barr made his debut at the now-daily briefings, appearing on Monday to discuss the administration’s efforts to combat price gouging and hoarding of needed medical supplies. Earlier in the day, Trump signed an executive order meant to prevent hoarding and price gouging, and Barr said that the Department of Justice had already been investigating some potential cases of people hoarding on an “industrial scale” and then manipulating the market for profit.