Republican elected officials in the US Congress called on Tuesday to dismiss White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, Donald Trump's pet peeve, for his management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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“Dr Fauci was not elected by the Americans. He was not chosen to run our economy. He was not chosen to decide on the education of the children by ignoring the parents and yet, Dr Fauci has practically controlled our life for a year, ”
accused Trumpist parliamentarian Marjorie Taylor Green, presenting a bill. calling for his dismissal.
“Fauci lied. People have died, ”
proclaimed a sign adorned with a photo of the respected immunologist, who served under seven presidents of both parties, but had become Donald Trump's pet peeve at the end of his term.
This text has no chance of being approved in a Congress controlled by the Democrats, but a half-dozen Republican elected representatives of the House of Representatives took advantage of their presentation to hammer out that the scientist had deceived the country, in s 'tapping recently posted emails.
“Dr Fauci lied for months about the origins of the Wuhan virus
,
”
accused Paul Gosar, speaking of the gigantic city of Wuhan, China, where the virus first appeared at the end of 2019. He
“ gave conflicting advice on the source of the virus, the transmission of the virus, the virulence of the virus, the effectiveness of masks and vaccines, the effectiveness of social distancing ”
, continued the Republican. The pandemic first appeared in the United States during Donald Trump's last year in office, whose management was heavily criticized.
The death toll exceeded 600,000 Covid-19 deaths in this country, the most bereaved in the world, on Tuesday. His Democratic successor Joe Biden and the White House reiterated their trust in Dr Fauci after the publication of his emails. The conservative group has also repeated its accusations against the Wuhan Institute of Virology, particularly targeting so-called
“
gain-of-function” research, which consists of deliberately modifying the genetic code of 'a molecule. The director of one of the laboratories of this Institute, Shi Zhengli, rejected these accusations of dangerous genetic manipulation, in an interview published Monday by the
New York Times
.
"There is a word for it: a biological weapon"
, launched Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Have we all been victims of a biological weapon? We demand answers and Dr Fauci must give them ”.
