{"id":554488,"date":"2021-06-06T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554488"},"modified":"2021-06-06T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:20:17","slug":"sen-cruz-fauci-emails-show-effort-to-mislead-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-fauci-emails-show-effort-to-mislead-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cruz: Fauci Emails Show &#039;Effort To Mislead&#039; on Coronavirus"},"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\">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%2Fsen-cruz-fauci-emails-show-effort-to-mislead-on-coronavirus%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=554488&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\/GetFile-291.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday the recent release of a trove of emails belonging to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,\u00a0Anthony Fauci, illustrates a \u201csystemic\u201d effort \u201cto mislead the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Cruz accused the infectious disease expert and coronavirus task force team member under former President Donald Trump of \u201csuppressing the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis e-mail dump that came out\u00a0makes clear that this is not\u00a0just being sloppy, it is\u00a0systematic and systemically an\u00a0effort to mislead the American\u00a0people,\u201d Cruz said, referring to the<b> <\/b>866 pages of Fauci&#8217;s emails <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/fauci-emails-pandemic-coronavirus\/2021\/06\/01\/id\/1023469\/\">released<\/a>\u00a0as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>He wasn&#8217;t doing it alone but he was\u00a0doing it with much of the U.S.\u00a0government behind him and with\u00a0Facebook and Big Tech operating\u00a0as an extension of the U.S.\u00a0government in order to silence\u00a0any views that disagreed not\u00a0with the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci wasn&#8217;t looking for the science, Cruz charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was suppressing the science\u00a0\u2026 trying to silence\u00a0anything that disagreed with the\u00a0political narrative that was\u00a0convenient that he was pushing\u00a0at that point,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cruz, Facebook has put itself in a position of being legally vulnerable for blocking posts on the virus origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt now is clear that Facebook\u00a0was operating at the direction\u00a0of and in the direct benefit of\u00a0the federal government and\u00a0operating as the government&#8217;s\u00a0censor, utilizing monopoly\u00a0position to censor on behalf of\u00a0the government,\u201d Cruz alleged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a dangerous admission\u00a0that&#8217;s out there for Facebook\u00a0because it means anybody in the\u00a0country and anybody in the world\u00a0whose statements, whose\u00a0statement was censored by\u00a0Facebook, if you went out and\u00a0posted the facts that led a year\u00a0ago to the very strong\u00a0likelihood that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese\u00a0government lab in Wuhan, China,\u00a0if you posted that a year ago\u00a0and they took it down, I think\u00a0there&#8217;s a very good argument\u00a0that you have a cause of action\u00a0against Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also blasted the Chinese government for hiding the truth of the virus origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government covered\u00a0it up and sadly the deep state,\u00a0the federal government covered\u00a0it up as well,\u201d Cruz charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[President]Joe Biden and\u00a0his minions in the press did\u00a0everything to cover up the\u00a0facts,\u201d he asserted. \u201cWe should be getting to the\u00a0bottom of the facts of a\u00a0pandemic that has killed\u00a0millions of people worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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