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GOP sees opening to revive attacks on Fauci in email trove
The Associated Press ^ | June 5, 2021 | By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER

Posted on 06/05/2021 4:30:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left as a beacon of truth in an administration that badly mismanaged the pandemic and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat seeking to undermine former President Donald Trump.

But with the release of a trove of Fauci’s emails this week, Republicans’ attacks on the nation’s top government infectious-diseases expert have gone into overdrive. On conservative news channels, Fauci — who now serves as President Joe Biden’s pandemic adviser — has been pilloried as a liar who misled the American people about the origins of COVID-19 to protect the Chinese government. In Congress, Republican calls for his resignation have grown louder, as have demands for new investigations into the origins of the virus.

“Given what we know now, I don’t know how anyone can have confidence that he should remain in a position of public trust and authority,” said Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, a potential presidential hopeful who is calling for Fauci’s resignation and a full congressional inquiry.

The moves by Republicans represent a new effort to find a reliable foil in the first few months of the Biden administration, as they have struggled to turn public sentiment against the new president.

Biden administration officials and allies point to polling showing that Fauci is still one of the country’s most trusted public health communicators. Privately, they see the GOP’s focus on Fauci as a ploy to energize their base that likely will not resonate with moderate voters. And they are happy to compare Fauci’s record on public health with Trump’s.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; associated; associatedpress; ccp; jillcolvin; joshhawley; journalism; mediawingofthednc; missouri; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; press; progressives; wuhan; zekemiller
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1 posted on 06/05/2021 4:30:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Associated Pravda makes this all the Republicans’ fault.

Fauci’s actions are ignored because he is a loyal communist party member in good standing.


2 posted on 06/05/2021 4:32:38 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden defends Fauci. And now the press defends Fauci. Looks like we have another example of a corrupt establishment hack who will remain in power.

Remember several months back when some thought that Cuomo would be forced out?

3 posted on 06/05/2021 4:39:25 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fauxi goes way back with big $$$ games with:

CDC/PEPFAR (Birx, Fauci, Pence),

Global Fund (Birx, Gates, vaccines, $10’s of billions from Fed via PEPFAR),

UN Development Program (oversees GF spending with closed books via “special immunity”, gets $100’s of millions from Fed for administering),

Global Fund grant recipients (like Chinese labs).

Remember that VP Pence put Fauxi front and center in this fear-mongering Covid fiasco.

PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was launched in 2003 in response to a global ‘epidemic’ of HIV. Fauci was its architect. The program offered $2 billion annually, rising to about $7 billion in 2019, to surveil, diagnose, treat, and reduce transmission of HIV around the world.


4 posted on 06/05/2021 4:39:59 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: FreeReign

The DNC Media are the most corrupt and evil enemy within.

President Trump was right about them.


5 posted on 06/05/2021 4:42:13 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bwa-hahhahaha

Republicans pounce!


6 posted on 06/05/2021 4:44:50 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz - May the odds ever be in your favor!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
GOP sees opening to revive attacks on Fauci in email trove

A GOP attack consists of saying the words, "troubling" and "concerned" on the Hannity show.

7 posted on 06/05/2021 4:51:42 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Partisan Media Shills alert.

8 posted on 06/05/2021 4:54:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Once again, when Republicans have the facts and the goods that catch Democrats red-headed then the corrupt MSM always frame Republicans as being motivated by filthy self-serving political calculations or as doing something that the evil Dr. Trump wants as his “ally”.


9 posted on 06/05/2021 5:01:45 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Obadiah

AP reporting, of one can call it that.


10 posted on 06/05/2021 5:21:38 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Half-gigabyte pdf of emails here:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/e7wi0lqjd1d5lcx/Combined_Fauci_Emails_in_Chron_Order_OCRd_FINAL.pdf/file


11 posted on 06/05/2021 5:22:30 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Obadiah

the MSM KNOWINGLY has helped the planned GENOCIDE,
and deserves accountability, too.


12 posted on 06/05/2021 5:23:55 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Republicans “seize”


13 posted on 06/05/2021 5:25:39 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Fido969

A(merican) P(ravda)


14 posted on 06/05/2021 5:45:30 AM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The left is about to throw Fauci under the bus. They fear nothing more than getting caught in their web of lies; the truth would destroy them.


15 posted on 06/05/2021 5:47:13 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
lionized by the left as a beacon of truth in an administration that badly mismanaged the pandemic

America's Pravda speaks.

16 posted on 06/05/2021 5:50:45 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: slapshot

Most of the Chicom flu histeria would never have happened if we had a free press.


17 posted on 06/05/2021 5:58:31 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least according to the Hamas fanboy club.


18 posted on 06/05/2021 6:04:10 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden administration officials and allies point to polling showing that Fauci is still one of the country’s most trusted public health communicators. Privately, they see the GOP’s focus on Fauci as a ploy to energize their base that likely will not resonate with moderate voters. And they are happy to compare Fauci’s record on public health with Trump’s.

Never mind that Fauci’s action pushing gain-of-function research offshore to China thru third-party cutouts was the lit fuse that ultimately led to an engineered virus escaping the lab, crippling the world economy, and killing millions; the AP writers are more worried about the GOP using these facts to their advantage to hurt Dems.


19 posted on 06/05/2021 6:22:50 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another example of what Bongino calls “Republicans pounce.” Instead of analysis of the emails themselves and what they reveal about Fauci’s culpability, the emphasis is on how evil conservatives may use them to score points in the ideological war.


20 posted on 06/05/2021 6:39:35 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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