“Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, and I want to say that officially,” Anthony Fauci said in a hearing only days ago, as Rand Paul flung misleading accusations at him.
In our eyes, Fauci was defending himself from a rude, interrupting windbag. Some on the right had a different reaction: How dare that 80-year-old geezer talk back to Rand Paul? He should be prosecuted!
Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is just the one to do that prosecuting. Blond, with clean-cut looks, a good-boy haircut, and a perpetual suit jacket and tie, Cawthorn gives me the creeps, and I can't tell you why.
“I'll tell you, when we take the majority back in 2022, I'll make sure consequences are doled out,” Cawthorn said in a recent radio interview. “We want to prosecute [Fauci] to the full ability of the law." Cawthorne didn't say what the charges would be.
He continued. "And I’ll tell you, to lie to the American people just to get your name in the news, just to get your face on the cover of books, just to get fame and fortune. I’ll tell you, Dr. Anthony Fauci does not deserve either fame or fortune.”
That's classic GOP-pol doublespeak, seeing as Cawthorn was at that moment cloaking himself in the up-is-down message from the Republican spin machine. The spin is more of a spin-out, really, because there's no resemblance to truth.
And Fauci certainly doesn't need help to get on the cover of books: That would be Cawthorn himself.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564526-gop-rep-cawthorn-says-he-wants-to-prosecute-fauci
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