Ron DeSantis Vows to ‘Deal with’ Fauci: Governor Accuses Doctor of Turning America into a Faucian Dystopia During Pandemic – After Disastrous Congressional Hearings

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has promised to protect Dr. to hold Anthony Fauci to the fire when he reaches the White House next year.

DeSantis, who is more than 12 percent behind third-party presidential candidate Donald Trump’s 60 percent among Republican voters, became a household name during the throes of the Covid pandemic when he vowed to save his state from what he called a “Faucian dystopia.” ‘

He told his 2.2 million followers on

The governor’s statement came in the wake of Dr. Fauci’s disastrous 14-hour meeting before a House coronavirus subcommittee, during which he allegedly failed to answer hundreds of questions and question the role of the U.S. and its personal role in funding risky virus research.

New details about Dr. Fauci’s closed-door testimony showed the former top White House adviser failed to properly oversee federal funding for risky research and did not devise lockdown policies based on data

Gov. DeSantis added, “We cannot allow Anthony Fauci to escape accountability.”

The Florida Republican is far from the first politician to play the role of Dr. portrays Fauci as tyrannical in the response to the pandemic.

Conservative Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Senate candidate Mehmet Oz both called him a “little tyrant.” Both are and were limited in what they could do to stop Dr. Hold Fauci accountable for his perceived failures.

But DeSantis’ high profile as an alternative to the embattled Trump for the 2024 ticket lends considerably more credibility to his promise to appoint Dr. To subject Fauci to a ‘reckoning’.

Dr. Fauci, once considered America’s top infectious disease doctor and a level-headed voice in the room during the chaotic early months of the Covid pandemic, has sudden decline in popularity Since then, the catastrophic consequences of Covid-era lockdown policies have continued to take hold.

Among all voters, public opinion about him fell from 68 percent in December 2020 to 53 percent in April 2022.

One of the most striking effects of the lockdown policies that Dr. Fauci endorsed is the plummeting mental health of America’s children, who in 2020 and 2021 were forced to give up social time with friends, after-school activities and sports for in-person classes. to follow.

Lockdowns and quarantine recommendations have also led to a rapid increase in diseases that could have been prevented if people had not lost access to necessary preventive health care services during that time, including mammograms, prostate exams and regular checkups with a primary care doctor.

Fauci just wrapped up two days — fourteen hours in total — of marathon testimony about his role in devising policies to curb the spread of the virus, issuing vaccine mandates for universities and schools, and overseeing spending of federal dollars in risky “gain of function.” research in which scientists tinker with viruses in a way that makes them more transmissible and/or more deadly.

The mountain of testimony was informative but “frustrating” to Republicans on the committee, including Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, who told reporters after Monday’s hearing that “there may be more than a hundred ‘I can’t remember’ or ‘I can’t remember’. ‘answers’ so far.

After the first day of questioning concluded, Republicans said Fauci backtracked on his earlier insistence that the U.S. did not fund gain-of-function research.

They also noted that Dr. Fauci approved federal funding for questionable research proposals without fully reading them, despite the fact that he oversaw the approval of $3 million in NIH grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists conduct such research .

On day two, lawmakers took up the lockdown and social distancing policies approved by Fauci.

The former White House medical adviser said scientific data was not driving the blanket recommendation of six feet of distancing to reduce the spread of the virus, saying the rule “seemed arbitrary.”

He also said vaccine mandates, which divided the nation in 2021, likely reinforced a general sense of distrust in the government, with more and more people questioning its motives.

The issue of the devastating consequences of mandatory vaccines, school and business closures has become a rallying cry for Republicans like Governor DeSantis, who not only blames most, if not all, of the pandemic policy failures on Dr. Fauci, but have also gone in the complete opposite direction.

For example, Governor DeSantis appointed Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a vaccine skeptic, to become the state’s surgeon general in 2021, at the same time the federal government, many private companies and school districts initiated plans to require Covid vaccines.

Ranting against Dr. Fauci has become an important facet of Governor DeSantis’ political cache.

He has been able to tap into Republican voters’ disgust over dangerous Covid policies and deliver an extremely enticing message: that Dr. Fauci won’t get away with it under his watch.