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A Weak, Stupid President Trump Was Powerless To Stop Fauci From Poisoning Red St | John Smyth |
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Antiscience rightwing halfwit politicians prove they deserve to be fired
for their own stupidity and forced to pay back every government cent
they've collected from the taxpayers.
House Republicans� Attempts to Attack Fauci Go Wildly Off Rails
The House GOP struggled to find things to blame on Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Anthony Fauci visited Capitol Hill on Monday to testify on the
origins of Covid-19, but some Republican members on the House Oversight
Committee had no intention of asking anything even remotely relevant to
scientific inquiry.
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases was repeatedly grilled by GOP lawmakers who clearly had not done
their homework before they tried to pin baseless allegations against him,
in an apparent attempt to undermine his credibility as the medical leader
of America�s pandemic response.
The hearing opened with committee Chair James Comer refusing to let Fauci
actually answer any of his questions. The Kentucky Republican said it was
because he had so many questions to get through.
In another embarrassing instance, New York Representative Nicole
Malliotakis tried�and failed�to implicate the infectious diseases expert
in a popular conspiracy theory, including that he had received royalties
from pharmaceutical companies for coronavirus-related medications and
vaccines.
�How much have you earned in royalties from pharmaceutical companies
since the pandemic began in 2021?� asked Malliotakis.
�Zero,� replied Fauci.
The New York Republican then proceeded to read a headline in front of
her, citing that an �NIH scientist had made $710 million from
drugmakers.� �You�re saying that you did not receive any of the $710
million?� she pressed.
Fauci knew exactly how much he had made: just $122 for a somewhat
unrelated monoclonal antibody that he had patented decades prior. But
Malliotakis wasn�t satisfied with that. Instead, she attempted to corner
Fauci on any royalties�not necessarily related to Covid�that he had
received over the course of the pandemic, and whether any of the $710
million had gone to him.
�I think none,� Fauci said before fending off bubbling interruptions from
the Trump ally. �No�I�m on the record, and I want to make sure that this
is clear: that I developed a monoclonal antibody about 25 years ago
that�s used as a diagnostic that has nothing to do with Covid, and I
receive about $120 a year from that patent.�
Later, Arizona Representative Debbie Lesko attempted to frame Fauci for
allegedly participating in a series of emails that discussed suppressing
the �lab leak theory� for Covid without realizing that the emails don�t
actually exist.
�You said about four or five things, Congressman, that were just not
true,� Fauci responded after Lesko laid out her theory.
�Well, we have emails to prove it,� Lesko said.
�But you don�t,� he said, before Maryland Representative Kweisi Mfume
interjected to correct Lesko that �no, we don�t have it.�
�I get tired of hearing �We got it,� and then when we ask for it, it�s
not there. We do not have it,� Mfume said. �That�s just incorrect.�
And another mind-boggling line of questioning by Ohio Representative Jim
Jordan prompted the medical expert to ask, �What does that have to do
with me?�
https://newrepublic.com/post/182187/house-republicans-attack-fauci-covid-
hearing
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