Fauci Blames Fox News and Marjorie Taylor Greene for Fueling Death Threats Against Him: ‘It’s a Pattern’

Dr. Anthony Fauci faulted Fox News and prominent conservatives for the death threats he has received since overseeing the nation’s Covid-19 pandemic response in 2020.

The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases testified on Capitol Hill on Monday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Republicans have accused Fauci of recommending draconian precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and have alleged he covered up the origins of the virus by suppressing evidence showing it was created in a lab in China. Predictably, the hearing was a dramatic affair, complete with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) refusing to address Fauci as “Doctor.”

Later in the evening, he appeared on CNN’s The Source, where Kaitlan Collins asked him about death threats he has received.

“You testified there at the end about the threats that you and your family are still getting even to this day,” the host said. “And I just wonder if you ever thought that you would still be getting threats like that, credible threats against your life even now, two years out of government service.”

Fauci replied that he notices a sharp uptick in threats whenever Fox News runs a segment about him or his name is invoked by a Republican politician who is critical of him:

It’s very interesting. It’s a pattern, Kaitlan, that whenever somebody gets up – whether it’s a news media, you know Fox News, does it a lot, or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that’s responsible for the deaths of X number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created – immediately, it’s like clockwork. The death threats go way up.

So, that’s the reason why I’m still getting death threats, when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kind of things that drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.

While director of NIAID, Fauci was tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as Chief Medical Advisor to the President. He stepped down from both posts at the end of 2022.

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