Marjorie Taylor Greene says Fauci should be jailed and rails against ‘evil science’ at Covid hearing

“Their accusations are without evidence,” Rep Ruiz said.

He called the baseless accusations wrong because not only does it stir up mistrust in the scientific fields, but it leads to threats against Dr Fauci and other public health officials.

Democrats didn’t ask any further questions of Dr Fauci.

The hearing is over.

Members will have five days to submit questions to Dr Fauci that he will respond to.

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin has slammed Republicans for “bowing to convicted felon” Donald Trump after he told Americans to inject bleach to cure Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic.

Dr Anthony Fauci was called to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s hearing on Monday, as House Republicans have sought to scrutinize his role as one of the chief faces of the federal government’s response to the pandemic.

Republicans have also baselessly floated the idea that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded so-called gain-of-function research that led to the spread of Covid-19.

Raskin instantly defended Dr Fauci from accusations that he had orchestrated the proliferation of Covid-19 while also attacking former president Trump and Republicans who bended to his will.

Raskin said that the hearing was meant to divert attention from the Trump administration’s failures to save lives and compared it to the failure of the Oversight Committee to find wrongdoing by President Joe Biden during its bungled impeachment inquiry.

“The investigation of Dr Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest and he is not a comic book super villain,” he said.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene verbally berated Anthony Fauci, saying he deserved to be prosecuted and repeatedly refusing to acknowledge him as a doctor.

Greene screamed and raged at Fauci at a hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Republicans have sought to prove that Fauci tried to suppress information about the origins of Covid-19 and claim he funded research that triggered pandemic that killed millions of people.

The Georgia right-wing firebrand and conspiracy theorist criticized Fauci’s previous comments saying that when people who criticized him were criticizing science and asked if he represented science.

“It’s not a yes or no,” she said.

“We’ll take that a ‘you-don’t-know-what-you-represent,’” she said. Greene proceeded to hold up images of beagles who were experimented on for the National Institutes of Health.

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