The former president was booed by some of his supporters during an appearance with Bill O'Reilly in Dallas, Texas last week, when he announced that he had received his booster vaccine.
He later doubled down on his support of the vaccines in an interview with conservative pundit Candace Owens.
Trump is now facing scrutiny from some of his most staunch supporters, but received some support from an unlikely source on Sunday - Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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"We'll take anything we can get about getting people vaccinated,' Fauci stated in an early morning interview with ABC News" Jonathan Karl.
"I was a bit dismayed when former President Trump came out and made that statement, and his followers booed him, which I was stunned by. I mean, given the fact of how popular he is with that group, that they would boo him, which tells me how recalcitrant they are about being told what they should do."
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"And I think that his continuing to say that people should get vaccinated and articulating that to them, in my mind, is a good thing," Fauci declares, remarking: "I hope he keeps it up."
In the interview with Owens last week, Trump told her that people unvaccinated against coronavirus are the ones getting 'very sick' and encouraged all Americans to get the jab all while taking credit for its invention, of course.
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"I came up with a vaccine – with three vaccines," Trump told the Daily Wire host, referring to the development of the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines while he was still president. 'All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.'
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Owens interjected: 'Yet more people have died under COVID this year, by the way, under Joe Biden, then under you and more people took the vaccine this year. So people are questioning how –'
But the former president then interrupted Owens, assuring: 'Oh no, the vaccine works (sic), but some people aren't the ones. The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don't take the vaccine. But it's still their choice.'
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"And if you take the vaccine, you're protected," he continued. "Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine."
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