Dr. Anthony Fauci, 83, criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her heated questioning during a House hearing Monday.
The firebrand Republican lawmaker told Fauci he should be in prison for guiding the president through the COVID-19 pandemic, and accused him of contributing to ‘mass murder.’
Speaking about his testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci said MTG’s comments against him are drawing death threats.
“The purpose of the hearings is to try to figure out how we can do better so that next time, when we face a pandemic, we are better prepared and can benefit,” Fauci told CNN on Monday after appearing at the Capitol. Hill. “If mistakes were made, we can identify them and try to correct them for the future.”
“That’s not what we saw today.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questioning of him in a House hearing Monday and accused the Georgia lawmaker of escalating death threats against him.
Fauci retired from government service at the end of 2022.
He said it has become a “pattern” for him to receive death threats after becoming the name behind the White House team fighting the coronavirus.
“Every time someone stands up, whether it’s the media (Fox News does it a lot) or someone in Congress who stands up and makes a public statement that I am responsible for the death of X people because of policies or something” “If I have the crazy idea that I created the virus, immediately, like clockwork, the death threats increase considerably,” Fauci explained.
Fauci detailed some of the death threats in his testimony and received even more criticism for saying he “made up” some of the rules surrounding COVID-19, such as social distancing. He also admitted there was no science to show that masking children in schools would help stop the spread of the virus.
While Rep. Greene agreed that death threats are unacceptable, she reiterated her anger at Fauci in a post Tuesday morning.
“No one should get death threats and I get them ALL THE TIME,” Greene wrote in my own safety and I’m a gun owner.’
“It’s not my comments that have people angry at Mr. Fauci, it’s the FACT that his ridiculous, unscientific, tyrannical policies DESTROYED people’s lives and that he is a narcissistic idiot and a liar, which is why “MANY people hate him,” he argued.
‘Under Mr. Fauci’s leadership, viruses have been turned into deadly bioweapons and animals are killed and abused, while he and his cronies get RICH from the patents they made while receiving government-funded paychecks and running powerful companies. government agencies that dictate medical guidelines and regulations.’
She concluded: “Mr. Fauci should be in prison for crimes against humanity!!!”
Fauci blamed MTG for the death threats and stated that his “unusual performance” at the hearing contributes to the messages he receives.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) holds up a photo of Dr. Fauci with his mask placed under his chin at a baseball game during the pandemic during her questioning of the doctor at a House hearing Monday.
Greene reported death threats – including against Fauci – but insists that he deserved prison time for ‘crimes against humanity’
“When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the hearing today,” Fauci told CNN. “That’s the kind of thing that increases death threats because there’s a segment of the population that believes that kind of nonsense.”
At Monday’s hearing, Greene told Fauci that he should be “prosecuted… for crimes against humanity.”
The Georgia Republican said Fauci used “repulsive, evil science” to create guidelines for COVID-19 restrictions before showing the doctor a photo of him maskless during the pandemic at a baseball game.