White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s call to prosecute White House senior medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci “incredibly dangerous” and “disgusting” at Monday’s briefing.
Yahoo White House correspondent Alexander Nazaryan questioned the press secretary on Musk’s call to prosecute Fauci in a Sunday tweet, which stated, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” The Twitter CEO said via Twitter Monday that Fauci lied to Congress about the origins of COVID-19, particularly in connection to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
“We’ve been very clear about this. These attacks, these personal attacks that we have been seeing are dangerous on Dr. Fauci and other public health professionals as well,” Jean-Pierre responded. “They are disgusting and they are divorced from reality, and we will continue to call that out and be very clear about that. Again, these are incredibly dangerous—these personal attacks that we are seeing.”
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Jean-Pierre praised Fauci’s past work in seven presidential administrations and said he has “given his entire career to civil service.” She said he “saved countless lives” in his leadership role in which he fought COVID and HIV.
“We are fortunate that he has devoted his career and his life and his exceptional talent to America’s public health, and that’s what should be discussed right now, that’s what we should be thankful to him about and again, these are incredibly dangerous and should be called out,” she concluded. (RELATED: Jean-Pierre Says Musk ‘Haphazardly’ Released ‘Twitter Files’ As A ‘Distraction’)
In 2021, Fauci adamantly denied that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab in which COVID-19 is suspected to have originated from. The National Institutes of Health admitted in October 2021 that the agency funded gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses in China, leading congressional Republicans to call for an investigation and fire Fauci.
Email transcriptions released by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found that Fauci and other public health leaders were warned of the possibility of COVID being created by gain-of-function research in early 2020.
Fauci did not answer Daily Caller White House correspondent Diana Glebova as she attempted to ask about the origins of COVID at his final briefing at the White House in late November.