{"id":1624858,"date":"2022-08-28T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624858"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:04:13","slug":"desantis-calls-for-reckoning-of-fauci-if-republicans-take-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-for-reckoning-of-fauci-if-republicans-take-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Calls for \u2018Reckoning\u2019 of Fauci If Republicans Take Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fdesantis-calls-for-reckoning-of-fauci-if-republicans-take-congress%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=1624858&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>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on Republicans in Congress to investigate White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci if they take control of Congress and following statements from Fauci that he\u2019s stepping down soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Republicans take control, we need a reckoning on all of this,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ron-desantis-anthony-fauci-congress-investigations\">told<\/a> Dan Bongino, adding that during the pandemic, Fauci\u00a0\u201ccriticized me every step of the way.\u201d The 81-year-old White House adviser had been \u201cwrong on all the important\u201d issues relating to COVID-19, said the governor.<\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0said DeSantis, Fauci tried to \u201csow fear in the population and scared a lot of parents\u201d when he called for schools to be shut down for in-person learning. \u201cWe can never go down that road,\u201d DeSantis said, adding that Fauci and other federal government officials in the future will again pivot to saying that lockdown measures did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>His comments about Fauci came after Bongino played a video of Fauci asserting that COVID-19 lockdowns did not cause damage to people, although some studies have shown otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, after initially supporting some COVID-19-related rules in early 2020, DeSantis later rescinded most of them and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2022\/04\/13\/as-long-as-i-sit-in-the-chair-florida-gov-desantis-rules-out-covid-restrictions-as-cases-rise\/\">refused to impose<\/a> new mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Florida, we will not let them lock you down,\u201d the governor said during an event in December 2021. \u201cWe will not let them take your jobs, we will not let them harm your businesses, we will not let them close your schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is running for reelection as governor during the 2022 midterms, although he has been flagged as a possible presidential candidate for 2024\u2014especially if former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> decides not to run again. Amid the speculation, DeSantis has declined to comment on running for president and often says he is focusing on getting reelected.<\/p>\n<p> Stepping Down <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Fauci issued a statement via the National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on Republicans in Congress to investigate White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci if they take control of Congress and following statements from Fauci that he\u2019s stepping down soon. \u201cIf the Republicans take control, we need a reckoning on all of this,\u201d he told Dan Bongino, adding that during the pandemic, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}