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GOP Senator Slams ‘Least Trusted Bureaucrat’ After Fauci Is Caught On Hot Mic Calling Him A ‘Moron’

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Republican Senator Roger Marshall responded to Doctor Anthony Fauci after the Biden administration’s infectious disease expert was caught on a hot mic calling him a “moron.”

Fauci called Marshall (R-KS) “a moron” during his testimony before the Senate Health Committee regarding the omicron variant of the coronavirus. 

Marshall was asking Marshall about financial disclosures to Congress in light of reports that Fauci is federal’s highest-paid employee.

A Forbes report indicated Fauci earned $434,312 in 2020 and “received a big pay hike for his biodefense research activities … to prevent future pandemics.”

Fauci insisted that his finance disclosures are public information, but Marshall suggested, without evidence, that ‘Big Tech’ was making it difficult to access.

“All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed, it’s extraordinary,” Fauci spat before the mic caught him muttering, “What a moron” and “Jesus Christ.”

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Senator Marshall Fires Back After Fauci’s Hot Mic Comments

Senator Marshall fired back in a tweet featuring a clip of Fauci’s hot mic comments.

“Calling me a moron during a Senate hearing may have alleviated the stress of the least trusted bureaucrat in America, but it didn’t take away from the facts,” he tweeted.

“The truth is what we need, Dr. Fauci.”

Marshall previously criticised Fauci in a statement for using taxpayer money to finance gain-of-function research at Wuhan.

“I understand that Anthony Fauci had a very frustrating day,” he said.

“Having a bombshell report show he in fact did award U.S. tax dollars for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and being called out about his personal financial disclosure during the COVID pandemic NOT being publicly available must be very frustrating.”

An earlier email was released by the House Oversight Committee Republicans, purporting to show that Fauci had downplayed the laboratory leak theory and concealed details about COVID which originated in a Wuhan lab.

“I would not do anything about this right now,” he said in an email to then-National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who referred to the lab leak theory as a conspiracy.

“It is a shiny object that will go away in times [sic],” Fauci replied.

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Rand Paul Hammers Fauci

Fauci also testified that he went on the offensive against Senator Rand Paul, blaming his constant criticisms for personal attacks or death threats.

That’s right. Fauci whined to Paul (R-KY), a critic, but also a man who survived an assassination attempt on a softball field back in 2017, and was attacked by a deranged neighbor, about threats he’s receiving.

“To say that I’m responsible for death threats on him would be equivalent to myself or Steve Scalise saying that the Bernie Sanders supporter that shot us, that it was Bernie Sanders’ responsibility,” Paul said in an interview later that day.

He accused Fauci of “trying to deflect” by changing the subject.

Paul, in an interview with Newsmax, said Fauci simply doesn’t want to answer questions about his salary.

The Republican Senator accused of “using government resources to center and to destroy the reputations of other scientists who disagree with him.”

Paul told Newsmax he believes Fauci “should be in jail” and if Republicans take over the Senate, they will “subpoena all his records.”