Dr. Anthony Fauci was lavishly praised by the hosts of ABC’s ‘The View’ on Thursday while touring the promotion of his new book.
Host Whoopi Goldberg gushed about Fauci, the former White House chief medical adviser, calling him “one of the classiest people” in Washington, DC.
“Thank you for coming on the show and everything, everything you’ve done from the beginning,” Goldberg said to a beaming, smiling Fauci, who was applauded by the audience. “It’s extraordinary and you’re no worse for wear, you look good.”
Goldberg continued, “You’re probably one of the classiest people I’ve ever seen move around Washington, DC.”
“I just want to lift my dreadlocks for you,” Goldberg said, raising his hair in greeting.
The adulation toward Fauci comes as the former health official has faced criticism for his handling of the COVID pandemic. He recently admitted there was no clear science behind two-metre social distancing and masking of children, sparking outrage.
ABC’s ‘The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t contain her excitement when Dr. Anthony Fauci joined the show to promote his new book. She called him “one of the classiest people” to ever walk the streets of Washington, DC.
Fauci published a book this week called ‘On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service’ that details his five decades as a government health official.
In it he addresses his way of facing the AIDS pandemic and, later, the COVID pandemic. He also reveals passionate, F-bomb-filled conversations with former President Donald Trump and the death threats he has faced as a result of his work.
Earlier this month, Fauci testified before a House committee investigating the origins of COVID that he, despite having poured cold water on the theory in the past, is “open-minded” about the possibility. that the virus began in a laboratory in Wuhan.
Republicans later said he lied to the committee about his openness to the lab leak hypothesis, saying he could face charges for lying.
“If trying to save lives is a crime, then I’m guilty,” he told the smitten View hosts when asked about Republicans who say they could criminally charge him.
Fauci smiled as TV hosts praised him for his efforts during the COVID pandemic.
During the appearance, the hosts mentioned how Republicans want to bring charges against Fauci, to which he responded, “What are the charges?” ‘That you saved millions of lives with the vaccine’
‘What are the charges?’ he said. ‘That you saved millions of lives with the vaccine you helped develop or that you got people to do things that were interventions that made them safer against a deadly pandemic that killed 1.2 million people?’
“Frankly, I don’t know what they’re talking about,” Fauci said.
After his hearing in early June, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer accused the doctor of lying about his role in establishing COVID distancing and masking rules.
“Everyone knows that Dr. Fauci was the main instigator of space distancing,” Comer charged.
He also said that “He likes the idea” that Fauci could face criminal charges for your behavior during COVID and for lying to Congress.
“I don’t know if I said he should be arrested, but I like the idea,” Comer told Fox Business’ Stuart Varney earlier this month. “At the end of the day, if you lie to Congress, it’s a serious crime.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, later asked Fauci to attend a transcribed interview to question him about his claim that he supported the lab leak theory.
Jordan alleges that Fauci’s comments are absolutely “false.”
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Fauci lied to Congress by recounting his open-mindedness about COVID starting in a Wuhan lab.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, also said Fauci lied under oath and that he “likes the idea” of arresting doctors.
The Ohio Republican charges that this “is false on its face” due to the “pressure” that Fauci and the Biden administration put on social media companies to remove posts about lab leaks, which led to censoring communication on line about COVID.
Jordan further alleges that Fauci “sidelined” former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield in an attempt to silence his opinion that COVID “came from a Wuhan lab.” .
Those specific allegations never came up during Fauci’s television appearance on Thursday.