{"id":1208764,"date":"2022-01-11T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208764"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:20:27","slug":"hot-mic-fauci-calls-republican-senator-a-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hot-mic-fauci-calls-republican-senator-a-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT MIC: Fauci Calls Republican Senator A \u2018Moron\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhot-mic-fauci-calls-republican-senator-a-moron%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci got feisty on Tuesday during a contentious Senate hearing, at one point calling a Republican senator \u201ca moron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top U.S. immunologist, who has been the face of the federal government\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning, clashed with Sen. Roger Marshall, who challenged the doctor on documents recently published by Project Veritas.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Marshall challenged Fauci to \u201csubmit to Congress and the public a financial disclosure that includes your past and current investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are so misinformed,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>After Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who was chairing the hearing, ended the heated exchange, Fauci can be heard saying, \u201cWhat a moron\u2026 Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Fauci also battled with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), with the doctor claiming Paul has made false accusations about COVID-19 and the government\u2019s handling of the pandemic, causing him harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family and my children with obscene phone calls, because people are lying about me,\u201d Fauci told the panel.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Fauci brandished some literature he claimed came from Paul\u2019s office that called for his firing. He also claimed a California man was arrested in Iowa last month was driving to Washington, D.C., with the intention to kill government officials, including Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police asked him where he was going and he was going to Washington, D.C., to kill Dr. Fauci,\u201d he said. \u201cThey found in his car, an AR-15 and multiple magazines of ammunition because he thinks that maybe I\u2019m killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci went on to personally attack the senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn usual fashion, senator, you are distorting everything about me,\u201d Fauci said Tuesday. \u201cThis happens all the time, you personally attack me, with absolutely not a shred of evidence about anything you say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul, for his part, said Fauci\u2019s charge was irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing for you to suggest that people who dare to question you are responsible somehow for violent threats,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>The two have clashed before. Last month, Paul put the lion\u2019s share of blame for the thousands of monthly COVID-19 deaths squarely on Fauci over his bias toward vaccines versus therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would venture to say that thousands of people die in our country every month now from COVID because [Fauci\u2019s] deemphasized the idea that there are therapeutics,\u201d Paul, who is also a doctor, said in an interview on the Ron Paul Liberty Report published last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rand-paul-thousands-monthly-covid-deaths-fauci-vaccine-bias\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Fauci is of the philosophy that vaccines are incredibly successful and are the way to go versus therapeutics, for example. So with regard to AIDS, he was involved as the AIDS epidemic came up, he wanted to develop a vaccine,\u201d said Paul, who has repeatedly clashed with Fauci in hearings on Capitol Hill. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with that. He wanted to develop a vaccine. Vaccines can be great for polio or smallpox or wonderful. It didn\u2019t actually work for AIDS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci got feisty on Tuesday during a contentious Senate hearing, at one point calling a Republican senator \u201ca moron.\u201d The top U.S. immunologist, who has been the face of the federal government\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning, clashed with Sen. 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