Tony's Diary Package — page 165

sexually assaulted not have said to Paula that I had not heard about this. I should have said I will get back to you. I pushed back strongly. This is bullshit. The reporter asks if I had heard about this and I said no. It would have been ridiculous to say anything else. Finally Katie admitted thatr she had not even heard about it before the media announced it. CRAZY TOWN!! The woman who held the press conference call today (Karen Draper) saying that she worked for me for 2 years and I sexually assaulted her flopped. There were 6 people on the call and the Buzzfeed reporter pointed out that he checked her out and there was no record of her ast NIH ever. Also, he pointed out that she pronounced my name Dr. Foouchi and so she could not have worked for me for 2 years. This is the second flopped accusation. (see above). Much press on Trump blocking emfrom testifying before the House while allowing me to testify before the Senate. Also, media frenzy regarding Trump planning to phase out the TF. He does say that Deb and I will remain as scientific advisors (whatever that means). My prediction is that Deb will stay in the WH and I will remain at NIH and only do minor peripheral stuff. ............................................................................ Tonight I had the usual 8:30 PM weekly "medical community" meeting (this is the 4th meeting) chaired by David Barr. He gets on the teleconference the following: Balter (LA County); Allison Arwady (Chicago); Demitre Daskalakis (NYC); LaQuandra Nesbitt (DC); Jeff Duchin (Seattle). They have the same issue - mostly problem with testing, not enough, shortage of swabs, extraction material, media, long wait for results. I keep bringing this up to TF and TF (Giroir and Jared) do happy talk.