{"id":554450,"date":"2021-06-06T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554450"},"modified":"2021-06-06T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:35:34","slug":"marie-harf-accuses-trump-allies-of-using-fauci-as-a-punching-bag-to-deflect-from-their-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marie-harf-accuses-trump-allies-of-using-fauci-as-a-punching-bag-to-deflect-from-their-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Harf Accuses Trump Allies Of Using Fauci As \u2018A Punching Bag\u2019 To \u2018Deflect From Their Failures\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\">34<\/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%2Fmarie-harf-accuses-trump-allies-of-using-fauci-as-a-punching-bag-to-deflect-from-their-failures%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=554450&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-06-at-11.47.47-AM-e1622998681288.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.086978636826\">\n<p>Fox News contributor Marie Harf accused former President Trump and his allies of using Dr. Anthony Fauci \u201cas a punching bag\u201d in an effort to distract from their own failures.<\/p>\n<p>Harf joined a panel discussion on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d to discuss renewed attacks on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/03\/nicole-wallace-fawns-over-fauci-interview-email-dump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauci<\/a> following the release of some of his emails sent during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/03\/admiral-brett-giroir-not-outrageous-suggest-covid-engineered\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Not Outrageous\u2019 To Suggest COVID Was Engineered: Former White House Testing Czar Says There\u2019s \u2018A Lot Of CYA Going On Now\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anchor Chris Wallace noted that early on, former President Donald Trump and a number of Republicans had floated the possibility that the pandemic began as the result of either an accidental or intentional leak from the Wuhan laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a knee-jerk reaction from Democrats to dismiss that and the argument \u2014 and also from some of the media and at the argument in effect was if Trump says it, it can\u2019t be true,\u201d Wallace said, turning to Harf for her response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, a lot of things Donald Trump said weren\u2019t true, so he didn\u2019t have a lot of credibility with the American people, but he also talked about it in a way that many people found offensive, borderline racist,\u201d Harf said, going on to suggest that Trump used his own racist comments as a shield to deflect from his own administration\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what\u2019s important of what\u2019s happened in the past few weeks as the intelligence community did something really smart. They were released \u2014 they pulled back the curtain and said there are two working theories. Some of our analysts believe one and some believe the other,\u201d Harf continued, arguing that both theories should be thoroughly explored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/fox-news-marie-harf-democrats-didnt-big-wins-polls-trump-biden-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harf<\/a> concluded by defending <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/03\/trump-country-fortunate-fauci-covid-coronavirus-china-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauci<\/a>, adding, \u201cDr. Fauci did what he could to save American lives with incomplete information and the Trump administration and his allies are using Dr. Fauci as a punching bag today to deflect from their failures.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News contributor Marie Harf accused former President Trump and his allies of using Dr. Anthony Fauci \u201cas a punching bag\u201d in an effort to distract from their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279369,"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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-06-at-11.47.47-AM-e1622998681288.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Marie Harf Accuses Trump Allies Of Using Fauci As \u2018A Punching Bag\u2019 To \u2018Deflect From Their Failures\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-06-at-11.47.47-AM-e1622998681288.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Marie Harf Accuses Trump Allies Of Using Fauci As \u2018A Punching Bag\u2019 To \u2018Deflect From Their Failures\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554450","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=554450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}