It is part of a longstanding plot by right wing operatives. This is from May 2020, when the pandemic was raging:
A cadre of influential conservatives is growing increasingly convinced that the nation’s foremost infectious-disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is recklessly driving the nation to financial ruin—possibly even in a concerted attempt to undermine President Donald Trump. And in an effort to stop him, they’re resorting to tried and true methods: from public shaming, to online conspiracy theories, to lawsuits meant to unearth emails pertaining to his work.
At the heart of the effort to knock Fauci down a peg are some of the biggest luminaries in Trump’s orbit—including key figures who helped spearhead the campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, insisted in an episode of his podcast on Wednesday that Fauci had “set up President Trump for failure in the fall.” He was reacting to Fauci’s testimony before a Senate committee this week, during which Fauci questioned efforts by some elected officials, including a number of Trump allies, to “reopen” schools and businesses shuttered in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus.
It is coming to fruition a little late for Trump’s purposes but they they are not letting up. They now want him investigated, I assume, for reason?
Tucker Carlson is leading the charge. He said this on Friday:
“The question is who commissioned the work, who started the work that they were doing in that lab, and the answer… comes back right to here, to our country, to Dr. Fauci.”
Fox News had Peter Navarro on March 30, and he called Fauci “the father of the coronavirus,” also alleging that Fauci created the pandemic.
I hope they’ve reinforced his security. This could easily get violent.
By the way, there are legit questions about the origin of the virus. Maybe it did escape from the lab. But Fauci had nothing to do with that and the small NIH grant for the Wuhan lab was for something else, and it’s absurd to blame him for any of this. The science has been evolving (as it does) over the course of the pandemic and everyone had their best theories at the time.
Fauci’s work on vaccines over all these years is what’s making it possible for us to leave our homes after a year and resume normal life. This crusade against him is disgusting.
If the right thinks we can stay safe from viruses by shutting off global scientific cooperation we might just as well pack it in. Between disease and climate change, it’s all over for this species if these people are allowed to prevail.