'Crazy': Dr. Fauci sounds off against MTG's 'vitriol' during House hearing
A House Oversight meeting that saw Dr. Anthony Fauci sparring with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene unspooled in disarray the doctor believes is going to spawn death threats against him.
“You’re not a doctor, you’re Mr. Fauci in my few minutes” Greene declared. She also said he should be “in prison” for “crimes against humanity."
Fauci appeared on CNN later Monday to slam both Greene and her commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic
"I have testified literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years, over Congress and there's always been differences of opinion, differences of ideology and things like that," he said. "But the level of vitriol that we see now just in the country in general — but actually played out during this hearing was really quite unfortunate."
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The rank effort to target his character he believes incited a sideshow.
"Because the purpose of hearings are to try and figure out how we can do better so that next time if and when we all faced with a pandemic we'd be better prepared and we could benefit if mistakes were made; we identify them and we try to correct them for the future," said the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during an appearance on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins.
Fauci claimed the rhetoric espoused by Greene and others has inspired some to target him and his family with bonafide death threats.
"Whenever somebody gets up, whether it's the 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 I'm responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus — immediately — you could like clockwork, the death threats, go way up," Fauci said.
Greene notably declared: "We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison, Dr. Fauci."
But calling for his criminal demise is what Fauci found so distasteful, telling Collins: "So that's the reason why I'm still getting death threats when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene."