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GOP Sen. Hagerty: Fauci Has 'Discredited Himself,' Made It 'Difficult' to Trust Him

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During Tuesday’s “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business Network, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) reacted to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci claiming he represents science.

Fauci, who was responding to criticism from the GOP for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, said over the weekend, “[I]t’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous. To me, that’s more dangerous than the slings and the arrows that get thrown at me.”

Hagerty told host Maria Bartiromo that it was “very difficult” to trust anything Fauci says because he has “discredited himself” by putting out disinformation. He added that distrust has not helped get people vaccinated against the virus.

“Well, it is very difficult to put faith in anything that Fauci says at this point given the way he has discredited himself,” Hagerty stated. “And I think the disinformation that we’ve seen coming from Fauci is going to cost the administration. It really has crushed the American public’s confidence in what we are hearing regarding the science, and that does not bode well for people getting vaccinated.”

He continued, “We need to look at all of the science, including natural immunity, to get to the bottom of this.”

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Rand Paul: Fauci Science Declaration 'Conjures Up Images of the Medieval Church'

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One of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s targets during his media appearances throughout the weekend was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has been a critic of Fauci and his willingness to shrug off individual rights and liberties.

Paul likened Fauci’s declaration that he represented science on Sunday to the medieval church during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime” on Monday.

“You know, when a government bureaucrat has the audacity, the arrogance, to say they represent all of science, we should be running the other way,” he said. “And it conjures up images of the medieval church, in their repression of science. Science has nothing to do with having obedience to any kind of government dogma. And you have to realize that most of what Fauci talks about isn’t science. He’s not talking about a study on this or a study of that. He’s talking about wear a mask. But when you talk about the peer-reviewed studies of masks, there was one done in Denmark showed that it didn’t work.”

“When you look at all of Sweden, 1.8 million children have not been wearing masks for the last two years. They’ve had zero COVID deaths,” Paul continued. “And you say, well, have the teachers been infected? Well, it turns out the teachers are infected at the same rate as the rest of the public. So, they’ve had no masks for a year, year and a half. And it has worked. And that’s a whole country. And there’s no real discussion of this because if you questioned him, and really that’s public policy, that’s not science. Its public policy backed by some science. But if you question him, somehow you are questioning science because he represents all science. That is incredibly arrogant.”

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Cotton: 'Fauci Should Be Investigated for Lying to Congress'

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci to be investigated for lying to Congress in his denial that his agency funded gain-of-function research during testimony earlier this year during an appearance on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Monday.

“Well, it’s just another example of the incompetence of the Biden administration. They think Tony Fauci remains a credible and impartial messenger about the Wuhan coronavirus,” he said. “I mean, you saw this weekend, he went out and became an open partisan attacking a sitting United States senator, who was democratically elected by the people as are the other 99 senators, as a nothing but a bureaucrat, who works for those people who democratically elected all 100 senators, attacking him in a partisan way.”

“This is not Tony Fauci changing or turning over a new leaf,” Cotton continued. “This is who he’s been from the very beginning. And it is a simple fact that he testified to Congress, by the way, that he did not fund through his agency gain-of-function research in the Wuhan labs, making the coronaviruses there more dangerous and more transmissible. Yet his agency has since acknowledged they, in fact, did fund that kind of gain-of-function research. Both those things can’t be true. Fauci should be investigated for lying to Congress.”

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Cruz: CBS 'Dropped the Ball' by Letting Fauci Respond to Gain-of-Function Issues 'With Insults'

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On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized CBS’ Margaret Brennan for failing to press White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on his statements on gain-of-function research.

Cruz said, “The statements from Dr. Fauci and the NIH are directly contradictory. And I’ve got to say, I think Margaret Brennan is a talented journalist, but she dropped the ball in not following up, letting him just respond with insults, instead of asking him the simple question, you stated that we don’t fund gain-of-function research. The NIH stated we do fund gain-of-function research. They can’t both be true, and if you lied to Congress, it’s a felony. She didn’t press him on that.”

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Piers Morgan: Fauci Should 'Put His Ego Away,' 'Shut the F*** Up'

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Former Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan has sounded the war drums against Dr. Anthony Fauci over his spate of increasingly partisan media appearances, telling him to “put his ego away” and “shut the fuck up.”

In a lengthy op-ed for the Daily Mail, Morgan asserted that Fauci’s latest brush with partisanship during his interview on CBS’s Face the Nation – where he singularly referred to himself as science’s lone representative – will alienate half the country, undercutting his so-called scientific mission. Morgan wrote:

For someone whose day job is supposed to be leading America’s scientific and medical war against Covid-19, he seems to have an incredible amount of spare time for self-promotional media interviews. As time has gone on, Fauci’s become more and more brazenly political in those interviews…

“What he said in these new interviews should give every American serious [cause] for concern, not just about the latest COVID threat but about some of the outrageously partisan statements the country’s top doctor made,” Morgan added.

During his interview on CBS, Fauci declared that criticism of him is actually criticism of science, characterizing himself as the field’s representative.

Anybody who’s looking at this carefully realizes that there’s a distinct anti-science flavor to this. If they get up and criticize science, nobody’s going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci — people could recognize there’s a person there, so it’s easy to criticize. But they’re really criticizing science, because I represent science, and that’s dangerous.

According to Morgan, Fauci’s words resemble that of a “religious leader berating non-believers than a scientist trying to grapple with a pandemic.”

After exploring the many instances where Fauci got the science wrong during the pandemic, from his initial downplaying of masks to his sudden acceptance of vaccine mandates after previously dismissing them, Morgan advised Fauci to “put his ego away” and “shut the fuck up.”

“Bottom line: if you want the American people to trust you, it’s not a good idea to accuse elected representatives of half the country of being lying crooks, however much you’ve been provoked,” said Morgan, concluding:

The more he talks, the less many Americans either like or believe him. They just see a narcissistic blow-hard who likes the sound of his own voice and constantly changes his mind  … If, as he insists, his only interest is in saving lives, then it’s time Anthony Fauci put his ego away, stayed off TV and shut the fuck up.

Piers Morgan is far from the only one to publicly lambast Fauci in the wake of his CBS interview; on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the doctor’s comments were the height of “absolute hubris.”

“The absolute hubris of someone claiming THEY represent science. It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity,” Paul tweeted.