{"id":2258274,"date":"2024-06-03T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faucis-return-to-the-headlines-could-cause-headaches-for-trump-and-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T05:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:06:15","slug":"faucis-return-to-the-headlines-could-cause-headaches-for-trump-and-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faucis-return-to-the-headlines-could-cause-headaches-for-trump-and-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci&#8217;s comeback could complicate matters for Trump and Biden"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ffaucis-return-to-the-headlines-could-cause-headaches-for-trump-and-biden%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=2258274&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>Anthony Fauci is set to testify before Congress\u2064 on Monday, reigniting his presence in the news and potentially\u2063 posing uncomfortable questions for both presidential campaigns. Despite retiring in 2022, Fauci has been linked to\u200c a scandal involving his former aide. \u200bThe public scrutiny may evoke\u200c past\u200d controversies for Trump and Biden. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s upcoming congressional testimony revives media attention and could \u2063raise challenging queries for presidential campaigns. Even after retirement in 2022, Fauci&#8217;s association with a scandal involving his ex-aide persists. This scrutiny \u200dmay unearth prior controversies for Trump \u2064and Biden.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthony-fauci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> will testify before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Fauci\">Congress<\/a> on Monday, bringing the controversial doctor back into the news cycle and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-jennifer-rubin-wapo-columnist-gets-results-with-doj-lawsuit\/\" title=\"President Jennifer Rubin? WaPo Columnist Gets Results With DOJ Lawsuit\">potentially raising questions<\/a> that neither presidential campaign wants to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who for many was the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, retired in late 2022, but he has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3021456\/nih-email-scandal-covid-19-origins-inquiry-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"dragged into a scandal\">dragged into a scandal<\/a> involving his former aide David Morens, who bragged in subpoenaed emails about skirting open records laws for information related to the virus\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans, and some Democrats, will grill the doctor before the cameras on June 3 as they seek his phone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-secretly-obtained-calls-emails-from-cnn-reporter-report\/\" title=\"Trump DOJ Secretly Obtained Calls, Emails From CNN Reporter: REPORT\">email records<\/a>, but the renewed interest in Fauci may be bring back unpleasant memories for both President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, used an appearance at last weekend\u2019s Libertarian National Convention to attack Trump\u2019s pandemic response. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was initially very reluctant to impose lockdowns, but then he got rolled by his bureaucrats,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cHe caved in, and many of our most fundamental rights disappeared practically overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington. Fauci will testify before Congress on Monday. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped back, calling Kennedy a \u201cradical leftist and environmental whack job\u201d who loves electric vehicle mandates and hates the National Rifle Association. Meanwhile, Trump is working to distance himself from Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFauci wasn\u2019t a big player in my administration like he was after I left,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/05\/28\/trump_when_it_comes_to_prosecuting_fauci_the_statutes_of_limitation_for_lying_to_congress_are_quite_long.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> podcaster Tim Pool. \u201cBiden made him the king of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign may have to field more Fauci-related questions amid his testimony to Congress and his book <em>On Call: A Doctor\u2019s Journey in Public Service,<\/em> which will be released on June 18 and likely provide Fauci with a new round of press interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Biden won the 2020 race largely on his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joebiden\/status\/1322254443644026880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"pandemic messaging\">pandemic messaging<\/a>, and he\u2019s reminding voters of that fact this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Trump] recently asked the infamous question: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Well, Donald, I\u2019m glad you asked the question,\u201d Biden said during a New York fundraiser on March 29. \u201cI hope everyone in this country takes a moment to think back to where you were in March of 2020. And, you know, COVID came to America. Trump was president. He tried to downplay the whole virus. \u2026 He told Americans to inject bleach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/21\/fauci-unchained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"embraced\">embraced<\/a> Fauci once in office as he promised to follow the science out of the pandemic. But the unfolding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3021456\/nih-email-scandal-covid-19-origins-inquiry-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"embraced\">email scandal<\/a> paints Fauci in a less-than-flattering light as Morens worked to shield him from any ties to compromising situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting FOIA\u2019d non stop,\u201d Morens wrote in April 2021, \u201cso it\u2019s most important that Tony not have anything on the record that could come back to bite.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 variant named omicron in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Nov. 29, 2021, in Washington as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rand Paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY), perhaps the most prominent Fauci critic in Congress, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Final-Draft-SRP-DOJ-Letter-re-Morens-HSGAC-letterhead.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rand Paul\">called<\/a> for the Biden Department of Justice to investigate Morens and says Fauci could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/05\/24\/rand-paul-fauci-could-be-indicted-for-deleting-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"indicted\">indicted<\/a> on the basis of destroying federal records. Paul has his own book, <em>Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up,<\/em> that features Fauci on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and the Justice Department did not respond to questions from the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Emails between Morens and EcoHealth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2985416\/peter-daszak-testifying-ecohealth-alliance-covid-origins-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Peter Daszak\">Peter Daszak<\/a> include references to the two presidents, with both showing a clear disdain for Trump. On April 26, 2020, Daszak said that Trump is \u201cshockingly ignorant and unconcerned about the damage his actions have.\u201d After EcoHealth won a $7.5 million grant in August of that year, Morens wrote that \u201cthere is still justice in a Trump-infected universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But University of California, Irvine public health professor Andrew Noymer said it\u2019s not easy to compare the pandemic responses of the two presidents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really apples and oranges,\u201d he said. \u201cTrump was on duty during the onset of the pandemic, and Biden came into office when people had access to vaccines. That\u2019s one of many differences, but the point is it was a different phase. So direct comparisons are hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another factor is that with the pandemic now firmly in the rear view, the public will tune out no matter what happens with Fauci or who is vindicated by congressional revelations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI doubt it,\u201d Republican strategist Doug Heye said when asked if the pandemic will be a big campaign issue. \u201cThat\u2019s in most people\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-daunte-wright-was-wanted-for-robbing-and-choking-a-woman-at-gunpoint-heres-why-that-matters\/\" title=\"WALSH: Daunte Wright Was Wanted For Robbing And Choking A Woman At Gunpoint. Here\u2019s Why That Matters.\">rear-view mirror<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci&#8217;s upcoming testimony before Congress on Monday will thrust the controversial doctor back into the spotlight. This development could prompt uncomfortable inquiries for both presidential campaigns. Fauci, widely recognized as the COVID-19 pandemic spokesperson, retired in late 2022 and recently got entangled in a scandal linked to his ex-aide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2258275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP22234559731286.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP22234559731286.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258274","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}