During an explosive, wild hearing in early June of 2024, Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene sounded off on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She even snapped, at one point, that she thinks Dr. Fauci belongs in prison.
The hearing took place on Monday, June 3, in the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The subcommittee hearing was the first time since December of 2022 that Dr. Fauci testified before a subcommittee in the House.
Rep. MTG didn’t hold back when it was her turn to question Dr. Fauci, slamming him for what happened during the Covid days and refusing to call him “doctor.” She said, “Do you think that’s appropriate? Do the American people deserve to be abused like that, Mr. Fauci?” She added, “Because you’re not a doctor, you’re Mr. Fauci in my few minutes.”
Later in her time for questioning and comments, she argued that he should be prosecuted by the DOJ and be in prison for what happened, telling him and calling him a doctor, “You know what this committee should be doing? We should be recommending you to be prosecuted. We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison, Dr. Fauci.”
Rep. MTG also, during the hearing, held up a photo of beagles that were being tested, allegedly by being bitten by sandflies. That picture stems from allegations made about Dr. Fauci by a group called the White Coast Waste Project. One of its allegations was that Fauci’s NIAID directed $424,455 in funding to the University of Georgia in September 2020 to infect 28 beagles with disease-causing parasites.
Further, the White Coat Waste Project alleged that Dr. Fauci helped fund a sickening project carried out by a lab in Tunisia which let beagles be eaten by sandflies as part of an experiment. The group, describing what happened, said that Dr. Fauci helped fund the lab “that drugged beagles and locked their heads in mesh cages full of biting flies so they could eat them alive.”
In a statement about Dr. Fauci to Newsweek, White Coat Waste Project President Anthony Bellotti said, “White Coat Waste Project exposed how Fauci is the real-life mad scientist behind the biggest animal testing scandals in history and we’re proud that our BeagleGate and Wuhan lab investigations exposing Fauci’s reckless funding for wasteful and cruel animal experiments were front-and-center at today’s hearing.”
Watch sparks fly during the hearing here:
Predictably, some on the left lost it over what Rep. MTG said about Dr. Fauci during the hearing, particularly how she refused to call him “doctor” at one point in the hearing, something for which she was rebuked by the subcommittee chair. Amongst those who did so was Rep. Garcia, who said, on X, “Totally insane that Marjorie Taylor Greene would not refer to Dr. Fauci as a doctor. He’s one of the most brilliant medical minds in the country. She’s a national embarrassment.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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