Democrats tried to shut down Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Monday as she grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci about his medical credentials and his pandemic advice, and also suggested he belongs in prison.
also displayed images of puppies being used as guinea pigs during experiments that were said to have been signed off on by Fauci during his time as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The face of the early White House response to attended a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus Pandemic. When Greene was given her time to speak, she roiled many of her colleagues by refusing to refer to Fauci as a “doctor” and by accusing him of admitting that he made up social distancing guidelines in the early days of the pandemic.
Greene used a headline from the U.K.’s to remind Fauci of the admission and recalled he once that he was the embodiment of “science.
” “You said you represent science, do you represent science, Fauci? Yes or no?” she pressed. explained he did not view the question as “yes or no,” to which Greene shot back, “I’ll take that as a, ‘You don’t know what you represent.’” When Fauci said that he did not “make up” suggestions such as six feet for social distancing and that they just “appeared,” the congresswoman laid into him.
“Do the American people deserve to be abused like that, Mr. Fauci?” she asked him rhetorically. “Because you’re not.
