Trump ‘Thought You Did a Great Job’: Democrat Jabs Republicans During Heated Fauci Hearing

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) ribbed former President Donald Trump and House Republicans on Monday during a contentious hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci, in which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Fauci should be jailed.

“Dr. Fauci, you talked about how, you know, we live in partisan times, a lot of misinformation. And you know, colleagues in this body said, you know, you should be charged and found guilty. Of course, the only one that that’s happened to is your former boss,” began Moskowitz, adding:

But, you know, the question I have is when you saw a lot of that disinformation, whether it was, you know, we can use a disinfectant to do, like a cleaning or do light in the body or that, you know, China’s working super hard. President Xi has got it contained. All of this stuff that was being put out. Were you concerned? You know, what was your feeling at that time? Working in the administration, seeing that come from the podium?

“Well, I was very frustrated by that. It was very clear I was put in a very difficult position that I didn’t like of having to contradict publicly the president of the United States. I took no great pleasure in that, but I felt it was my responsibility to tell the truth,” Fauci replied.

“He must have thought you did a great job. He gave you a commendation right before he left,” Moskowitz hit back.

“Well, I felt it was my responsibility, you know, as to preserve my own personal integrity and my major responsibility to the American public to tell them the truth. And if I could just take this opportunity when I was saying that if you attack me, you attack science, I mean that I am science. What I meant was that when the data show that I see chloroquine does not work, and there are people saying, oh, it does, I’ll give it to people and we know it can be hurtful to them. Then when you’re attacking what I’m saying that the science shows it doesn’t work, and the science shows that bleach doesn’t work, that when you attack that you really are attacking science because science has shown that it doesn’t work. That’s what I meant when you attacking me. You’re attacking science,” Fauci concluded.

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