Saying that Fauci made a statement in Jan at the beginning as being meaningful is looking for a scapegoat or someone to blame other than Trump. As far as I know Fauci never called this a hoax.
If you look at Fauci's statements about the virus, you'll see that Trump is simply mirroring them. Week by week, and now day by day, the CDC , the NIH and the coronavirus task force are learning more about this virus, and their assessments change. So do not blame Trump for parroting Fauci. no, this is not an attack on Fauci, the entire world was saying the same things, everyone was trying to determine how this virus was going to affect us.
You know what, they still don't know lot about this virus. We have not even been able to test 1% of the US population, so we do not know crucial details about this virus, not yet.