RFK Jr says Fauci prioritized 'getting on TV' over public health after revealing diary release

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned Dr. Anthony Fauci connected Monday aft revealing individual diary entries revealed nan doctor’s fixation connected fame during nan COVID-19 pandemic.

"[Fauci’s] attraction was connected promoting himself, connected getting connected TV and not doing nationalist health," Kennedy said connected "The Ingraham Angle."

The journals, released by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chronicle Fauci's day-to-day life during nan COVID-19 pandemic, detailing Fauci’s obsession pinch his newfound fame and his belief that it was "not hyperbole" to opportunity he was "the astir celebrated and talked astir personification successful nan country."

Kennedy, who said he is traumatized by Fauci’s falsehoods, said nan erstwhile head of nan National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases did "incalculable" harm to nationalist wellness and dismantled nan public’s trust.

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Kennedy said Fauci is to blasted for Americans’ deficiency of spot successful nationalist wellness and added that "they shouldn’t" because they were "lied to." (Left (Alex Wong/Getty Images), Right (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images))

"[Fauci] was nan master that they elevated. And anybody who did not springiness complete unsighted religion to these master opinions – which we now cognize were lies – was marginalized, vilified, demonized, censored," nan HHS caput told big Laura Ingraham.

Fauci, 85, became mostly revered arsenic "America’s doctor" arsenic nan nationalist looked to him for guidance during 2020 COVID-19 shutdowns.

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RFK Jr. powerfully criticized nan doctor’s "mismanagement" of nan pandemic, emphasizing his domiciled successful placing nan United States astatine nan highest mortality complaint successful nan world astatine 3,000 deaths per 1 cardinal people.

Anthony Fauci, head of nan National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee proceeding successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Younger children crossed nan U.S. became eligible to person Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine aft nan caput of nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention granted last clearance for shots to begin. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Because of Dr. Fauci's activity and different reasons, we had nan highest mortality complaint from COVID of immoderate state successful nan world," he told Fox News. "We virtually did worse than immoderate federation successful nan world."

The HHS caput recalled being de-platformed complete questioning Fauci’s assertions astir nan origins of COVID-19, lamenting really galore were "vilified" complete spreading "misinformation" that was later deemed to beryllium true.

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"I pointed retired that [COVID-19] almost surely came from nan Wuhan laboratory and… my Instagram was canceled pinch a cardinal followers for misinformation," Kennedy explained. "I ne'er put immoderate misinformation up. I put up each nan things that we now cognize are existent and it was called misinformation."

Security unit guidelines defender extracurricular nan Wuhan Institute of Virology successful Wuhan arsenic members of nan World Health Organization (WHO) squad investigating nan origins of nan COVID-19 coronavirus make a sojourn to nan institute successful Wuhan successful China's cardinal Hubei state connected February 3, 2021. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

Kennedy pointed fingers astatine Fauci, saying he is to blasted for Americans’ deficiency of spot successful nationalist wellness and added that "they shouldn’t" because they were "lied to."

He besides took purpose astatine legacy media organizations for what he described arsenic suppressing dissenting views and vehemently defending Fauci.

"The property was portion of this collaboration," RFK Jr said. "It was corrupt, and it did tremendous harm to nan media successful this state and to Americans’ religion successful that very important antiauthoritarian institution. It besides did incalculable harm to nationalist health."

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Kennedy based on Fauci could perchance face perjury prosecution arsenic nan expert faces legislature grounds Wednesday astir his diary entries and handling of nan COVID-19 pandemic.

"There are galore things that [Fauci] said that we cognize are lies, and Rand Paul presumably is going to inquire him astir those things, and if he lies again, past he could beryllium taxable to perjury prosecution," he said.