Fauci fires back at Rand Paul, accusing him of using attacks for ‘political gain’ Anthony S. Fauci accused Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday of raising campaign funds off false attacks on him that have encouraged threats on Fauci’s life.
Throughout the pandemic, Paul (R-Ky.) and other conservatives have questioned the science behind vaccines, masks and other public health measures and spun conspiracy claims about Fauci having a role in the creation of the coronavirus. The attacks on Fauci, who is President Biden’s chief medical adviser on the coronavirus and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have grown increasingly hostile in recent months, and Fauci has been under stepped-up security protection since 2020.
On Tuesday, Fauci demanded to speak uninterrupted after Paul accused him in a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing of helping orchestrate a smear campaign against three conservative academics who opposed shutdown measures in 2020. But the emails Paul pointed to showed Fauci merely sending colleagues a link to a Wired article debunking claims about reaching “herd immunity.”
Fauci called Paul’s repeated attacks a distortion of reality and blamed such falsehoods for spurring threats on his life. He cited the arrest of a California man in Iowa last month who police said was traveling to Washington with an AR-15 rifle and multiple magazines of ammunition. The man allegedly had a “hit list” including Fauci and several others, mostly Democratic politicians.........
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/11/fauci-paul-death-threat/
