Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday blamed “political performances” by the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and other right-wing figures for a spike in the number of death threats made against him and his family, hours after the federal government’s former top infectious disease expert attended a contentious Congressional hearing on the origins of Covid-19.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, ... [+]
In an interview with CNN, Fauci said whenever someone in the media or Congress makes a public statement about him being responsible for “the deaths of X number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus – immediately you can, it’s like clockwork – the death threats go way up.”
Calling the entire thing a “pattern,” the infectious disease expert said, “performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing…drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.”
Commenting on the contentious hearing Fauci said it should have been focused on figuring out “how we can do better so next time, if and when we are faced with a pandemic” adding if mistakes were made they should be identified and “we try to correct them for the future.”
Pointing out Greene’s attacks against him, Fauci said: “That’s not what we saw today…that was nothing to do with trying to do better unfortunately.”