{"id":542523,"date":"2021-05-27T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542523"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:50:20","slug":"reschenthaler-fauci-either-grossly-incompetent-or-lying-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reschenthaler-fauci-either-grossly-incompetent-or-lying-to-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Reschenthaler: Fauci &#039;Either Grossly Incompetent or Lying&#039; to Americans"},"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\">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%2Freschenthaler-fauci-either-grossly-incompetent-or-lying-to-americans%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=542523&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-411.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci has been &#8220;wrong over and over again&#8221; with his response and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic and should either be fired or resign from his job as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler said Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is either grossly incompetent or he has been lying to the American people the whole time,&#8221; the Pennsylvania Republican maintained on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox and Friends.&#8221; &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m a lawyer; I&#8217;m not a scientist. But just look at the evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reschenthaler said he was &#8220;skeptical&#8221; of Fauci, now President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser, &#8220;from the very beginning of this,&#8221; including in January 2020, when &#8220;he said America has nothing to worry about regarding this virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci criticized then-President Donald Trump for ordering a travel ban from China, &#8220;and then he said that decision was why President Trump actually saved lives,&#8221; said Reschenthaler. &#8220;He blatantly lied to Congress about masks and the American people, saying they don&#8217;t help, and then he said that, &#8216;oh, no, I was lying so we could hoard PPE.&#8217; He has been wrong this entire time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fauci was also wrong with his early contentions about the origins of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, Reschenthaler insisted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were to believe Dr. Fauci, and the fact that this originated in nature or a wet market, you would have to believe that a bat, a thousand miles away from Wuhan, traveled to Wuhan, again, a thousand miles, infected no species, no human along the way, then started infecting people around Wuhan,&#8221; said Reschenthaler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying coronavirus and bat-borne diseases, said Reschenthaler, &#8220;and once that virus leaked it became 20 times more contagious than it was in its state in nature. To me, that just defies logic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that in November 2019, researchers from the laboratory were getting COVID-like symptoms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, the evidence is staggering,&#8221; said Reschenthaler. &#8220;Dr. Fauci should be fired or resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that when he and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said the virus probably began in the Wuhan lab &#8220;where they were doing gain of function research&#8221; on diseases, Fauci &#8220;was the one saying that was a conspiracy theory. He was the one pushing the real conspiracy theory, pushing that this virus originated in nature.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reschenthaler&#8217;s comments come while Republican outcry grows against Fauci, who is now saying that he is open to believing that COVID-19 may have started in a lab, not through nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The doctor is also under fire because of payments that had been made to the Wuhan lab facility. He told a House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had earmarked $600,000 to the Chinese institute over a five-year period to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans, reports The New York Post.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the money, sent to Wuhan through the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance was to be used as a &#8220;modest collaboration&#8221; with the Chinese experts, not to be used for gain of function research, Fauci told lawmakers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such research takes a virus that can infect humans and makes it &#8220;either more transmissible and\/or pathogenic for humans,&#8221; said the doctor, but he insisted &#8220;that categorically was not done.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci has been &#8220;wrong over and over again&#8221; with his response and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic and should either be fired or resign from his job as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313232,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-411.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Reschenthaler: Fauci &#039;Either Grossly Incompetent or Lying&#039; to Americans","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-411.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Reschenthaler: Fauci &#039;Either Grossly Incompetent or Lying&#039; to Americans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542523","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}