‘Medical Big Lie’: Raskin Rips House GOP For Trying to Smear Fauci As a Kind of ‘Comic Book Supervillian’
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pulled no punches on Monday while giving his opening statement during a House Oversight committee hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic where Dr. Anthony Fauci testified.
“According to Doctor Deborah Birx, Donald Trump’s own Covid-19 advisor, America unnecessarily lost hundreds of thousands of people because of the recklessness and indifference of Donald Trump and his administration. Now, the people who brought you the political big lie, claiming, absurdly, that Trump won the 2020 election, which he lost by more than 7 million votes. Now bring you the medical big lie, making the outlandish claim that Doctor Fauci was responsible for causing Covid-19,” began Raskin, hitting back at House Republicans public statements attacking Dr. Facui.
“Using the select subcommittee as a platform for this disinformation. House Republicans now find themselves in the familiar position where their own investigation debunks their runaway political rhetoric,” Raskin continued, adding:
Just like the broader committee’s impeachment drive proved only that there were no presidential crimes, much less high crimes and misdemeanors attributable to Joe Biden. The investigation of Doctor Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health, in the public interest, and he is not a comic book supervillain.
He did not fund research to create the Covid 19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign. Today, Doctor Fauci’s testimony, along with the thousands of pages of documents and dozens of closed-door testimony provided to House Republicans as part of the Covid origins investigation, will dispel these hysterical claims and reveal that the people bowing down to a twice impeached, convicted felon who told Americans to inject themselves with bleach now want you to believe not only a big political, a big political lie, but a big medical lie too.
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
