{"id":1771728,"date":"2022-12-11T19:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771728"},"modified":"2022-12-11T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:33:02","slug":"ex-cia-chiefs-attempt-to-defend-national-hero-fauci-backfires-in-a-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cia-chiefs-attempt-to-defend-national-hero-fauci-backfires-in-a-hurry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA Chief\u2019s Attempt To Defend \u2018National Hero\u2019 Fauci Backfires In A Hurry"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fex-cia-chiefs-attempt-to-defend-national-hero-fauci-backfires-in-a-hurry%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=1771728&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>Former CIA Director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/john-brennan-rand-paul-is-beneath-contempt-paul-punches-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Brennan<\/a>\u00a0kicked a virtual hornet\u2019s nest when he attempted to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci after a late-night Twitter-swipe from the platform\u2019s new owner <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-starts-and-apparently-finishes-blue-check-fee-negotiations-with-stephen-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-dr-fauci-in-cryptic-wee-hours-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cryptic announcement<\/a> revealing that his pronouns are \u201cProsecute\/Fauci,\u201d Brennan jumped to the former (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious) NIAID Director\u2019s defense, calling him \u201ca national hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dDr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &#038; many contributions to public health,\u201d Brennan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to take a swipe at Musk, adding, \u201cDespite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling hate &#038; public divisions. You may have money, but you have no class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &#038; many contributions to public health<\/p>\n<p>Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate &#038; divisions. <\/p>\n<p>You may have money, but you have no class. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zabyXMERz\">https:\/\/t.co\/0zabyXMERz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/1601949081189900288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics quickly came for Brennan, arguing both that he was wrong about Fauci and that his own lack of candor with the American people might disqualify his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like @JohnBrennan thinks he\u2019s a hero,\u201d actor Nick Searcy tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnBrennan<\/a> thinks he\u2019s a hero. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pqkf4yxUf1\">https:\/\/t.co\/pqkf4yxUf1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &#038; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/1602016079651692544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Hilton, host of Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cThe Next Revolution,\u201d weighed in as well, disputing Brennan\u2019s claim that Fauci would be remembered for anything other than his connections to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sen-paul-demands-answers-from-fauci-on-gain-of-function-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubious research<\/a> and how that impacted the federal government\u2019s response to the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &#038; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &#038; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htS5JblHpG\">https:\/\/t.co\/htS5JblHpG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveHiltonx\/status\/1602016141924175873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brennan appeared to take issue with the complaints, doubling down on his initial comments several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &#038; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &#038; politically destructive,\u201d he said. \u201cWe certainly seem to have far too many of them lately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &#038; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &#038; politically destructive. <\/p>\n<p>We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tEiDgcZjon\">https:\/\/t.co\/tEiDgcZjon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/1602041419476176899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., lashed out at Musk over the same tweet that had provoked Brennan, claiming, \u201cElon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. <\/p>\n<p>Elon is no champion of free speech. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2UlWmvQR6n\">pic.twitter.com\/2UlWmvQR6n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitchieTorres\/status\/1601933557156438017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But when popular Canadian legal blogger Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) pushed back, saying, \u201cPretty sure @elonmusk\u00a0wants to \u2018criminalize\u2019 Fauci because Fauci lied under oath, engaged in gain of function research in a Chinese lab, jeopardized the entire planet, and arguably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people,\u201d Musk\u2019s response was simple: \u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Correct<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1602024488664588288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Director John Brennan\u00a0kicked a virtual hornet\u2019s nest when he attempted to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci after a late-night Twitter-swipe from the platform\u2019s new owner Elon Musk. Following Musk\u2019s cryptic announcement revealing that his pronouns are \u201cProsecute\/Fauci,\u201d Brennan jumped to the former (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious) NIAID Director\u2019s defense, calling him \u201ca &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1771731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7900,7898,5991,6202,7901,7899,4434,6845,7897,4107,6195],"class_list":["post-1771728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attempt","tag-backfires","tag-chiefs","tag-daily","tag-defend","tag-ex-cia","tag-fauci","tag-hero","tag-hurry","tag-national","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771728","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}