Did Fauci Interfere In The 2020 Election? Special Counsel Says It’s A ‘Close Call’The Federalist, Jan 13, 2022, Tristan Justice
The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) exonerated National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci earlier this month in a “close call” case of a Hatch Act violation.
In June, the government transparency non-profit Protect the Public’s Trust filed a complaint against Fauci over an October 2020 interview with the Washington Post. Published days before the election, the White House medical adviser branded then-candidate Joe Biden as taking the novel Wuhan coronavirus more seriously.
In the article, headlined “A whole lot of hurt: Fauci warns of COVID-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump’s response,” Fauci told the Post, “you could not possibly be positioned more poorly” to confront the pandemic and emphasized the United States needed an “abrupt change.”
When asked about the differences between the two major presidential candidates on their pandemic plans, Fauci said Biden “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective,” but that incumbent President Donald Trump was “looking at it from a different perspective.”
“Right now, the public health aspect of the task force has diminished greatly,” Fauci told the Post with Trump still in office.
The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, explicitly bars a federal employee from “us[ing] his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.” Fauci, the complaint said, “exceeded the mere exchange of opinions and in fact, participated in impermissible political activity.”
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