Dr. Anthony Fauci made an unwanted re-emergence to the public spotlight on Friday, diagnosing from afar the gunshot wound suffered by Donald Trump in an assassination attempt as “superficial.”
“I don’t think there is much more to it,” Fauci told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I mean, from what we’ve seen and what we’ve heard, it was a bullet shot that grazed his ear and injured his ear, according to the physicians who examined him. There was no other further damage.”
“It seems to have been a superficial wound to the ear, and that’s all,” he added.
Why folks at CNN think the opinion of a glorified garden gnome who helped amplify the deaths and suffering of countless victims in the pandemic due to misinformation, incompetence, or even a guiding hand in developing the COVID virus through funding from the NIH, is still relevant is anybody’s guess.
It’s immediately clear what Fauci is hoping to achieve through his comments. Telling a gullible audience that Trump’s wound is “superficial” is designed to counter the resilient and courageous narrative the former President rightly earned after the attack.
It’s mocking the man.
‘Trump doesn’t need a bandage despite all of the blood we all saw pouring down his face’ they want you to believe. ‘He’s weak. Merely a flesh wound.’
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 13, 2024
If the former chief medical advisor to President Biden wants to talk tough, let’s see him back it up.
Downplaying an assassination attempt against Trump barely one month after getting weepy-eyed discussing threats against himself and his family during a House hearing is rich.
“Yes, there have been everything from harassments by emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters,” Fauci testified during a House Oversight Committee hearing in June.
“At these moments, how do you feel?” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) pressed.
“Terrible,” Fauci said, still visibly upset and trying to collect himself.
🚨 NEW: Dr. Fauci breaks down into tears discussing personal death threats.
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) June 3, 2024
He says, “Every time someone gets up and says, I’m responsible for the death of people throughout the world, the death threats go up.”
REP DINGELL: How do you feel?
FAUCI: “Terrible.”
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Don’t let the crocodile tears fool you. Try to imagine what Fauci’s response would be if somebody fired a shot directed at his skull and ended up with a face covered in blood.
Think he’d be back on CNN the next day saying, ‘Look guys, don’t worry about me, it’s simply a superficial wound. Carry on.’
In that same hearing, Fauci claimed the “credible death threats” against him have “required my having Protective Services essentially all the time.”
(Side note – There is no more credible death threat than actual shots fired and having a supporter nearby killed in the hail of bullets. Fauci would have you believe the threats he receives are more credible than those others receive).
Not a big deal here. Fauci has every right to pay for private security. He’s certainly made a pretty penny off his role pretending to be a public hero during the pandemic and could afford such protection.
The problem is that he’s not paying for it. You are.
A Daily Mail report published three weeks ago revealed that Fauci’s net worth sits at around $11 million. Even so, he is “still getting a taxpayer-funded security detail and SUV, despite retiring from his $480,000-a-year government job” in 2022.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), seemingly the only member of the Senate willing to hold Fauci accountable for anything, heavily criticized the security detail he receives on the taxpayer dime.
“The only other person probably getting his level of security would be the president, vice president, maybe cabinet members, and a few members in leadership in the House and Senate,” Paul said.
“And he's getting this while not in government anymore.”
Paul went on to point out that as a high-profile senator who has nearly killed himself on multiple occasions, he doesn’t have a security force comparable to the left’s greatest false idol. He also mocked Fauci for trying to garner sympathy.
“He wants to develop empathy and sympathy. He wants to paint Republicans as creating this danger. I've had 34 death threats in a week before. I have had death threats as soon as this last week,” Paul said.
“So we get them all the time, and nobody picks me up in a limo and takes me to where I want to go every day.”
There is a remedy for this, of course. Strip Fauci of that security detail. A detail paid for off the backs of hardworking Americans. Many of whom his malicious need for power helped get fired or had their businesses and education destroyed.
Strip it.
Taxpayers have already paid immeasurably for his mishandling of COVID. They shouldn't be forced to keep paying this man.
Besides, if Trump’s verifiable bullet wound is merely “superficial”, the perceived threats facing Fauci must be exponentially more insincere.
The damage this one man did to our nation is immeasurable. Stop making it worse. Stop insulting the people whose lives he destroyed.
Providing him with any perks beyond his already generous government pension is simply unacceptable.
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