RFK, Jr. DESTROYS CNN’s Dana Bash Over Media Handling of Covid, Fauci
Jorge Bonilla
August 2nd, 2026 4:52 PM
The Elitist Media have largely avoided the Fauci Diaries since its publication and subsequent hearing with their author before the Senate Homeland Security and American Government Committee. CNN’s Dana Bash tried to perform some narrative hygiene by having Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a guest on today’s edition of State of the Union. To put it mildly, that effort backfired.
Bash framed the interview before its start by dishonestly casting Fauci as a Trump appointee, and got immediately rebuffed when posing the question to Kennedy:
DANA BASH: Washington was also gripped this week by a blast from the past, as former top Trump health official doctor Anthony Fauci repeatedly pleaded the fifth at a congressional hearing over his handling of the covid pandemic, all while the U.S. Faces health challenges from disease outbreaks to rising health care costs. Here with me now is the Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thank you for being here.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY. Jr.: Thanks for having me.
BASH: Appreciate it. You have been placing nearly all the blame on the COVID pandemic and the way that the U.S. responded to it squarely with Dr. Fauci. But, of course, he worked for President Trump. Does President Trump also deserve some of the blame?
KENNEDY: Well President Trump, as you recall, wanted to end the lockdowns. I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns, lockdowns that shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation, all of our churches, closed our schools, and our children are still paying the price for that. And yet we had the worst outcome of any country in the world.
BASH: How so?
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