Marjorie Taylor Greene says Fauci should be jailed and rails against ‘evil science’ at Covid hearing
Dr Fauci, the former head of the NIAID, is facing questions from the GOP-led subcommittee investigating the US’s Covid-19 response and the virus’s origins
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Your support makes all the difference.Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci is facing questions from the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday — marking his first Congressional testimony as a non-government official since stepping down in 2022.
Dr Fauci led the US’s response the Covid-19 pandemic, a role that earned him both praise and scrutiny alike. He is expected to face grilling from Congressional Republicans over the origins of the virus as well as transparency around government agency communications and records.
The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is sitting for his first congressional testimony in almost two years.
The GOP-led subcommittee has requested access to Dr Fauci’s personal email and phone records after obtaining information, which, they say, calls into question whether he may have attempted to conceal some records.
Dr Fauci is appearing voluntarily on Monday. He has said that he has “nothing to hide.”
The divide between the Democrats and Republicans approach to the hearing is striking. One Democrat called this effort a “waste of time” while Republicans have pressed Fauci about conspiracies that have cropped up about the origins of Covid, including the lab leak theory and Fauci’s alleged ‘cover up’.
Democrats have no further questions
“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.
Hearing adjourned
The hearing is over.
Members will have five days to submit questions to Dr Fauci that he will respond to.
ICYMI: Jamie Raskin defends Anthony Fauci and swipes at Trump during House Covid-19 hearing
Democrat blasts GOP for ‘bowing’ to convicted felon’ Trump at Fauci hearing
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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Raskin slams GOP for ‘bowing to convicted felon’ Trump and his Covid bleach claims
Raskin’s remarks came during a fiery House hearing about the origins of Covid-19 and the handling of the pandemic
Marjorie Taylor Greene urges that Fauci be jailed during heated hearing
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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Marjorie Taylor Greene screams that Fauci should be jailed for ‘evil science’
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene verbally berated Anthony Fauci, saying he deserved to be prosecuted and repeatedly refusing to acknowledge him as a doctor.
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