These guys are clowns. But don’t think there aren’t more sophisticated operatives working on similar ratfucking operations:
A woman who had accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of sexual assault now claims she was paid to lie about the public health expert by a pair of President Donald Trump’s supporters.
The woman says right-wing provocateur Jacob Wohl and his frequent accomplice Jack Burkman persuaded her to cast Fauci as the assailant using details from an actual sexual assault she survived just after high school, and they paid her to do it, reported Reason.
“The reality is that I’ve known Jacob since 2018 and that he charmed me into taking money to do this (see attached picture of us together),” said Diana Andrade in an email to the website. “[They also] had me do something like this . . . back in January.”
Andrade said she decided to abandon her claims and try to record incriminating evidence against the pair after Wohl asked her to find another woman to accuse Fauci of sexual assault — as they’ve done to former special counsel Robert Mueller and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Burkman is a fool but he was on message:
“Let me tell you something, Diana,” says Burkman on the nine-minute, 35-second call. “This guy shut the country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that, you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and that’s the way life works, OK? That’s the way it goes.”
Fox News and Trump have convinced tens of millions of people that Fauci and the other scientists are Deep State actors who pushed for the mitigation strategy in order to sabotage Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. People are calling the coronavirus “a scam.” #FiredFauci has trended on twitter.
Burkman and his little henchman aren’t serious players. But their rationale for doing what they’re doing is smack inside the mainstream of GOP thought.