NEWSWEEK – MAGA supporters are repeating calls for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be prosecuted after Donald Trump was elected for a second term in office.
Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a prominent figure advising the Trump administration in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. He later served as President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor between January 2021 and December 2022.
Republicans have since turned on him, particularly allies of Trump, claiming that the infectious disease expert tried to suppress information about the origins of Covid-19. They have also baselessly claimed he funded research that triggered a pandemic that killed millions of people.
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Some have even said he should be prosecuted. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Elon Musk tweeted in 2022.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that same year: “Dr. Fauci flat-out lied to Congress. Yet Merrick Garland and the Biden DOJ won’t prosecute.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is tipped to be President-elect Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services and has pushed baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines, told Fox News in 2023 that Fauci should be prosecuted if he has committed crimes …
