近日，特朗普的竞选团队发布了一则30秒的广告，宣扬特朗普的防疫经历，并在竞选广告中插入了一段美国知名传染病学专家福奇的话，让人觉得他赞扬特朗普在防疫上的表现。 在提到特朗普从新冠病毒恢复，并“以创纪录的时间为人们提供救命的药物，以保护国家的年长者”后，广告切换到了福奇的一段看似在夸赞特朗普的采访，“我无法想象还有任何人能做得更多了”。 随后福奇发布声明，对自己的话被断章取义表达了强烈不满，他强调自己并未同意出现在特朗普竞选团队的竞选广告中。如今自己的言论被“张冠李戴”，会误导人们以为他在为总统的防疫政策背书。 在声明中，福奇表示，近50年的公共服务生涯中，他从未公开对任何政治候选人表示支持。这则竞选广告当中截选的言论是他在数月前谈论联邦政府公共卫生官员的防疫工作时的讲话中的一部分，意在称赞美国医疗卫生界为应对疫情而付出的努力，并未针对特朗普的工作。 Top U.S. government scientist Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that an advertisement aired by Donald Trump's campaign was edited to make him appear to endorse the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate," said Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. The 30-second campaign ad, released last week, refers to Trump's personal experience with the virus. "President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus and so is America," it says. "Together we rose to meet the challenge, protecting our seniors, getting them life-saving drugs in record time, sparing no expense.” Then comes a brief clip of an interview with Fauci, in which he says, "I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more." Though no date is provided in the ad, the quote is from a Fox News interview with Fauci in March. During the interview, the top health expert praised the White House coronavirus task force's round-the-clock effort to respond to the pandemic. "We're talking about all hands on deck. I, as one of many people on a team, I'm not the only person," said Fauci at the time. "I have been devoting almost full time on this. I'm down at the White House virtually every day with the task force. It's every single day. So I can't imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more." On Sunday, Fauci said: "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." In response to Fauci saying the ad took his words out of context, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh was quoted by CNN as saying that, "these are Dr. Fauci's own words. The video is from a nationally broadcast television interview in which Dr. Fauci was praising the work of the Trump Administration. The words spoken are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci's mouth." As a leader of the White House task force on the coronavirus, Fauci has often had to walk a fine line in trying to clarify or correct the president's assertions about the disease or treatments and vaccines being developed against it. Fauci has at times aroused Trump's anger, as shown when the president in April retweeted a message containing the hashtag #FireFauci, before publicly insisting he was doing a great job.