Anthony Fauci hailed as he rubbishes Rep Debbie Lesko's claim of having emails showing he lied under oath

WASHINGTON, DC: Dr Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday, June 3, during which he fielded inquiries from House GOP members who have painted him as a contentious figure due to his involvement.

Rep Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) directed several questions to Dr Fauci, demonstrating limited interest in receiving substantive responses from the medical professional, according to Mediaite.

Their exchange pertained to emails that Lesko deemed corroborative of her own assertions, with Dr Fauci providing counterpoints to her claims.

How did exchange between Dr Anthony Fauci and Rep Debbie Lesko go?

The Arizona GOP congresswoman asked Dr Fauci, “My next question, sir, is on February 1st, 2020, you, yourself, Dr Fauci, the [National Institute of Health] director, [Francis Collins], and at least 11 other scientists were on a conference call to discuss the origins of Covid. A number of the scientists said that they were concerned that Covid was the result of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and were concerned that a revelation of the lab leak theory would hurt their relationship with China.”

Rep Lesko continued, “The [Centers for Disease Control] director [Robert Redfield] testified that he was not invited on this conference call, and he believes that because he believed the lab leak theory was possible. Three days later, on February 4th, 2020, four participants on the conference call authored a paper, Proximal Origin, which was sent to you for editing — Proximal Origin pushed the natural origin theory. On April 16th, 2020, the NIH director Dr. Collins emailed you expressing dismay that the Nature Medicine article, which was based on Proximal Origin, didn’t suppress the lab leak theory and asked you for more public pressure to suppress the lab leak theory.”

“The very next day, in response to Dr Collins’ request to suppress the lab leak theory, you cited the Nature Medicine article, which discounted the lab leak theory from the White House podium,” she alleged, adding. “My question to you, sir: Did you cite this article at the White House because the NIH director asked you to suppress the lab leak theory?”

“I did not do that in response to anybody’s suggestion to suppress anything,” Dr Fauci replied. “It was in response to a question that someone asked at the podium. And I did not edit any paper, as shown in my official testimony. So you said about four or five things, Congressman, that were just not true.”

“Well, we have emails to prove it,” Lesko claimed.

Fauci fired back, “But you don’t!”

“Thank you. And I yield back,” Lesko concluded.

Dr Anthony Fauci hailed for calling out Rep Debbie Lesko claiming she has emails proving he lied under oath 

One X user remarked, "Of course, Lesko. Didn't you retire, dear?"

Another user said, "Fauci is smart and has science and facts on his side MAGA is f**king stupid and just makes shit up."

Another user wrote, "Fauci called her out and she folded."

One user claimed, "I’m sick of these brainless republicans for questioning Dr Fauci, a well respected, long tenured scientist who is an expert on virology. He has more knowledge in his little finger than they could ever perceive of having. He is a scientist of the highest caliber."

Another X user remarked, "Fauci has taken enough bulls**t from these A-holes."

Finally, this user tweeted, "I’m sick of lying Republicans….."

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