Fauci Torches “Crazy” MTG for Her Insane Attacks
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Tue, June 4, 2024 at 9:29 AM CDT·2 min read
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After a tumultuous, side-winding hearing on Capitol Hill, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared particularly unimpressed by a line of questioning directed at him by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
During his testimony Monday before the House oversight committee about the origins on Covid-19, Greene torched Fauci, the medical leader of America’s pandemic response, refusing to refer to him as a doctor and claiming that he belongs “in prison” for committing “crimes against humanity.”
Afterward, Fauci took to
CNN to explain how rhetoric like hers immediately and inevitably results in an increase in death threats for himself and his family.
“Whenever somebody gets up, whether it’s a news media—you know, Fox News does it a lot—or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that I’m responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus—immediately, it’s like clockwork, the death threats go way up,” Fauci
told Kaitlan Collins.
“So that’s the reason why I’m still getting death threats. When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kinds of things that drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense,” Fauci said.
But Greene wasn’t the only representative who threw inexplicable curveballs at the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Several GOP lawmakers all played
the same game while Fauci was in the chair: New York Representative Nicole Malliotakis and Arizona Representative Debbie Lesko tried and failed to implicate him in popular conspiracy theories with evidence they didn’t have; committee Chair James Comer wouldn’t let him speak, claiming he had too many questions to get through; and Ohio Representative Jim Jordan threw him such irrelevant questions that it caused Fauci to ask, “What does that have to do with me?”
“I have testified literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years, over [at] Congress, and there’s always been differences of opinion, differences of ideology, criticisms, and things like that,” Fauci told CNN. “But the level of vitriol that we see now just in the country in general—but actually played out during this hearing was really quite unfortunate.”
And, ultimately, those questions distracted from and derailed a hearing with a real purpose: to educate Congress to better protect the American people ahead of another pandemic, according to Fauci.
Only time will tell if they learned something.
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Anthony Fauci Responds to That House Hearing Mess Created by MTG
William Vaillancourt
Mon, June 3, 2024 at 9:52 PM CDT·2 min read
CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA)
unhinged attacks on him earlier Monday during a House subcommittee hearing, saying it’s behavior like hers—in which she refused to call him “doctor” and demanded he be imprisoned—that drives death threats.
On
CNN’s
The Source, Fauci told anchor Kaitlan Collins that Greene’s vitriolic antics were “really quite unfortunate.”
“The purpose of hearings is to try and figure out how we can do better so next time, if and when we are faced with a pandemic, we’d be better prepared and can benefit. If mistakes were made, we can identify them, and we try to correct them for the future,” said Fauci, who retired from government service at the end of 2022. “That’s not what we saw today,” he added, namechecking Greene.
MTG Comes Unglued, Turns Fauci Hearing Into Absolute Shitshow
Fauci, who in his testimony detailed some of the death threats he has received as a result of his work to combat COVID-19 in the Trump and Biden administrations, was asked by Collins if he had thought those threats would continue even after stepping down. Fauci implicated Greene for helping spur them.
“It’s a pattern, Kaitlan, that whenever somebody gets up, whether it’s news media—Fox News does it a lot—or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that I’m responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus, immediately—it’s like clockwork—the death threats go way up,” he explained.
“So that’s the reason why I‘m still getting death threats—when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today‘s hearing,” Fauci went on. “Those are the kind of things that drive up the death threats because there is a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.”
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Fauci says he still faces death threats because of political ‘performances’ like Marjorie Taylor Greene’s at Covid-19 hearing
Jack Forrest, CNN
Mon, June 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM CDT·3 min read
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he sees a direct link between the rise in death threats made against him and his family and public figures connecting him to Covid-19 conspiracy theories, which he noted happened earlier Monday during a
contentious House hearing about the government’s response to the pandemic.
“It’s a pattern,” Fauci told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” adding that when someone in the media or in Congress “gets up and makes a public statement that I’m 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.”
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was grilled by Republicans on the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about the US’ handling of Covid-19, the origins of the virus and the use of unofficial emails by some officials at the National Institutes of Health.
Republican Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in heated remarks during the hearing criticized mask mandates, called for Fauci to be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity” and refused to call the former NIAID director “doctor.”
“So that’s the reason why I’m still getting death threats. When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kinds of things that drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense,” Fauci said.
CNN has reached out to Greene’s office for comment.
In an emotional moment at Monday’s hearing, Fauci detailed the
threats he received during his time as the director of the NIAID.
Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan asked Fauci to explain what some of the threats were and he replied: “Everything from harassments from emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters. There have been credible death threats leading to the arrest of two individuals – and credible death threats means someone who clearly was on their way to kill me. And it’s required my having protective services essentially all the time.”
Monday’s hearing was Fauci’s first public testimony on Capitol Hill since his
retirement from government service in 2022, but, he told Collins on “The Source,” he has “testified literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years over Congress.”
Fauci served at NIAID for 38 years under both parties’ administrations, starting with former President Ronald Reagan. He
helped lead the US response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as West Nile virus, the anthrax attacks, pandemic influenza, various bird influenza threats, Ebola, Zika – and he became one of the most public faces of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“There’s always been differences of opinion, differences of ideology, criticisms and things like that. But the level of vitriol that we see now – just in the country in general, but actually played out during this hearing – was really quite unfortunate because the purpose of hearings are to try and figure out how we can do better so that next time, if and when we are faced with a pandemic, we’d be better prepared,” he said.
CNN’s Betsy Klein,
Jen Christensen,
Elise Hammond,
Antoinette Radford and
Maureen Chowdhury contributed to this report.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene explodes at Fauci, refuses to call him 'Doctor'
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Mon, June 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM CDT
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Republican Chairman Reprimands MTG Over Bonkers Fight With Dr. Fauci
Hafiz Rashid
Mon, June 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM CDT·2 min read
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On Monday, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene screamed at and berated Dr. Anthony Fauci in a petty fight that earned her a reprimand from the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Greene called Fauci’s medical credentials into question during a hearing on the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“That is completely unacceptable to deny Dr. Fauci, who is here as a respected member of the medical community, his title, and that’s actually a personal attack on his character,” Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat, said.
“He’s not respected,” Greene shot back. Others on the committee quickly moved to correct Greene and have her words stricken from the record when she refused to comply.
Representative Brad Wenstrup, the Republican chair of the subcommittee, eventually reprimanded Greene and ordered, “The gentlelady will suspend.”
Garcia later tore into Greene and other Republicans for their conduct in the hearing.
“I am so sorry that you are subjected to those level of attacks and insanity,” Garcia said, addressing Fauci. “Your quote-unquote ‘so-called science’ that the gentlewoman is referring to has saved millions of lives in this country and around the world.”
Garcia went on to praise Fauci and other medical officials for saving lives during and outside of the pandemic, pointing out that Greene introduced the Fire Fauci Act and that she accused the infectious diseases specialist of creating the Covid-19 virus. Garcia noted that he lost both of his parents to Covid-19.
It’s pretty clear that Greene’s attack is part of her and other far-right Republicans’ culture-war
posturing on vaccination and the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than achieve anything, their attacks on Fauci and other medical professionals, both on Monday and throughout the pandemic, only achieve attention for themselves and
dangerous health outcomes for their supporters.
Greene hasn’t had a good spring. Last month, her attempt to insult Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett backfired and turned her into a
bankable meme for Crockett, and she’s lost a lot of goodwill from her fellow Republicans over her
failed effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to address Anthony Fauci as a doctor during a combative House hearing
Brent D. Griffiths
Updated Tue, June 4, 2024 at 8:57 AM CDT·3 min read
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to address Anthony Fauci as "doctor" during a hearing.
- The Republican chairman admonished Greene for breaking with decorum.
Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was reprimanded Monday for refusing to recognize Dr. Anthony Fauci as a doctor during a combative House hearing on Fauci's role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Mr. Fauci, because you're not doctor, you're Mr. Fauci in my few minutes," Greene, a Republican, said in an address to Fauci.
Fauci tried to respond to Greene's question about masking guidelines during the pandemic, but his response could not be heard as his microphone did not appear to be on. Shortly after, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, jumped in to clarify whether Greene could ignore Fauci's title.
"Mr. Chairman, in terms of the rules of decorum, are we allowed to deny that a doctor is a doctor because we don't want him to be a doctor?" Raskin said.
Republican lawmakers grilled Fauci during his first hearing since leaving the federal government in 2022. Fauci was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a panel investigating the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci, one of the nation's foremost infectious-disease experts, played a major role in shaping the response to the outbreak. Over time, then-President Donald Trump soured on Fauci's guidance, and he became a favorite target of many on the far right. Fauci testified that he still receives death threats.
Greene defended her treatment of Fauci, saying to Raskin: "Yes, because in my time that man does not deserve to have a license. As a matter of fact, it should be revoked, and he belongs in prison."
She later added that Fauci had committed "crimes against humanity."
Fauci played a major role in the Trump administration's development of COVID vaccines, which have been found to decrease the risk of hospitalization and death for people with the virus.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a Republican from Ohio who led the panel, admonished Greene for her actions.
"The gentlelady should recognize the doctor as a doctor," Wenstrup said.
Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California who spoke immediately after Greene, apologized to Fauci about how he was treated.
"Quite frankly, this might be the most insane hearing I've ever attended, and I've only been in Congress for a year and a half," Garcia said. "I'm so sorry that you are subjected to those levels of attacks."
Greene, a close ally of the former House speaker Kevin McCarthy, has
returned to her roots of challenging GOP leadership and upending House hearings with her questions. Earlier this year, Greene led an unsuccessful effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
She has also threatened to "
defund" the state of New York after a jury there found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts related to a scheme to falsify business records to cover up hush-money payments to a porn star.
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