A hot microphone caught who the real Dr. Fauci is when he thinks nobody can hear him.
Republican Senator Roger Marshall and Fauci got into a heated exchange over a 2018 Darpa grant that had Fauci yelling at the top of his lungs. Senator Murray who was chairing the hearing jumped in and save Fauci who lost his composure.
After the meltdown, Fauci didn’t think anybody would hear him, swore under his breath, and called Senator Marshall a moron.
“What a moron. Jesus Christ,” Fauci said.
Fauci calls Republican Senator Roger Marshall “a moron.”
Sen. Marshall is a doctor and an Army veteran. pic.twitter.com/eeu3IQUyws
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2022
Fauci also got into a tense exchange with Senator Rand Paul and his only defense was to attack Paul for being mean to him.
Sen. @RandPaul vs. Fauci, Round 8. Sen. Paul drills into Fauci over his emails showing a coordinated campaign to “takedown” the Great Barrington Declaration.
Paul: “Do you really think it’s appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to attack science that doesn’t agree with you? pic.twitter.com/LNuql7nSb7
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 11, 2022
After being humiliated Fauci played the victim on CNN and MSNBC circled the wagons.
“It clearly is politically motivated. He’s raising money for his campaign by making me the villain, he calls me a polarizing figure,” Fauci said to Anderson Cooper. “The only thing that came out of Senator Rand Paul and, to some extent, Senator Roger Marshall were ad hominems, which does nothing but distract from what we really need to be doing. We have a pandemic that everyone knows right now is like a tsunami on us.”
As has become his custom, Dr. Fauci takes to CNN following an exchange w/ @RandPaul to complain about his questioning.
“It clearly is politically motivated. He’s raising money for his campaign by making me the villain, he calls me a polarizing figure” pic.twitter.com/st5wfAkdAs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 12, 2022
During a segment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Brzezinski said, “What Rand Paul is doing is downright sick … We are trying to run a country and keep people safe and have the best scientists be given a platform to help Americans be safe. And this idiot is raising money off of defaming him.”
How many Democrats raised funds off holding Trump accountable while he was in office?
What you observed is more hypocrisy that is only met to satisfy the base of the Democrat party. Outside of the bubble even serious policymakers are suggesting that Fauci needs to step down.
Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President, and Director, Global Health Policy Center at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) suggested to Fauci during a fireside chat that maybe it’s time he retire. Below was Fauci’s response…
During a friendly chat w/ CSIS, Stephen Morrison seems to suggest to Dr. Fauci that maybe it’s time to retire.
Fauci responds by attacking “the misinformation and disinformation” that is “confusing the public.”
He adds, “I’m not a political person … zero political interests” pic.twitter.com/DCX5KyYY1Z
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 11, 2022