Speaking during the Turning Point USA People’s Convention in Detroit, Michigan, the same event where the adoring crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia went after Dr. Anthony Fauci in her speech, vowing to do all in her power to “lock him up” for his alleged “crimes against humanity.”
That came as part of her attacks on all manner of Establishment D.C. figures, namely former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and all those who were responsible for the draconian responses to the Covid pandemic, including masking schoolchildren, censorship of those with differing views on the pandemic, and closures of public places like beaches and schools.
She began, blasting Speaker Pelosi, “I was in Washington, D.C., and I’ll never forget when the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi, as speaker of the House, brought in nearly 30,000 National Guardsmen and turned our Capitol complex into a military base. And you weren’t allowed in there. The American people weren’t allowed in there.”
Continuing, she ripped into the more draconian Covid responses, saying, “And then they proceeded to shut down the country over Covid. They masked schoolchildren. They shut down schools. They closed beaches. They silenced your speech. They kicked you out social media. They attacked the very core of our freedoms, all for a virus that they made in a lab in Wuhan, China.”
That’s when she brought up Dr. Fauci and accused him of “crimes against humanity,” saying, “And yes, Doctor Anthony Fauci should be tried for crimes against humanity.” The anti-Fauci crowd started chanting, “Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!” She vowed to try to do that if able, saying, “Well, I can assure you, if I have anything to do with it, we will lock him up! He belongs in prison!”
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She also, during her speech, blasted the lawfare campaign against former President Donald Trump and various members of his administration. Posting about that on X, she said, “I’m concerned about the fact that the Democrats are unapologetically willing to throw people like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and innocent MAGA Grandmas in jail. We lost our country in 2020, and 2024 is about getting it back!”
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Rep. MTG is not the only Republican to have spoken about arresting Dr. Fauci recently. Rep. Comer also suggested doing so during an interview on Fox Business, saying, “At the end of the day, if you lie to Congress, that’s a felony. And when you look at the clip you just showed, everyone knows that Doctor Fauci was the lead instigator in the spacing distance.”
He added, “This is something that not only shut down tens of thousands of businesses in America and ran the debt up as a result of having to subsidize those businesses that were shut down and have to subsidize the unemployment rate. It destroyed public education. Kids couldn’t be in school because of the six-foot social distancing requirements that Doctor Fauci championed.”
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