Tucker Carlson says that'Pope'Fauci used COVID lockdowns to distract from Wuhan lab leak coverup, but doctor hits back saying attacks since release of smoking gun emails are 'nonsense'
Tucker Carlson on Friday night used his show to accuse Fauci and other public health officials of a cover-up
He said they imposed 'medical martial law' to reduce scrutiny of their actions - like funding the Wuhan lab
Carlson pointed out that Fauci's emails, published this week, appeared to show discrepancy in his views
The Fox News host insisted Fauci had deliberately misled the public and imposed strict and unnecessary rules
Fauci on Friday night told MSNBC that the tsunami of attacks on him were 'nonsense'
He has repeatedly defended funding the research work of the Wuhan lab, insisting it was vital
Fauci also said that some of his emails were ripe for taking out of context and twisting
On Friday the White House gave Fauci, Biden's chief medical advisor, their full and unequivocal support
By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:56 EDT, 4 June 2021 | UPDATED: 03:31 EDT, 5 June 2021
Tucker Carlson has accused Dr Anthony Fauci and other public health officials of lying about the severity of the COVID pandemic and ushering in 'medical martial law' to distract from their support of the Wuhan laboratory - where Carlson said the pandemic begun.
Fauci, the nation's top public health expert and Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, on Friday night shrugged off a week of attacks from Carlson and other conservative critics, who blame him both for excessive lockdowns and for funding the lab from where they believe the outbreak escaped, in Wuhan, China.
Fauci told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC that the attacks were 'a terrible, not-happy type of a distraction, but it's all nonsense.'
Carlson, however, continued with his onslaught, and accused Fauci on Friday night of orchestrating a cover-up to distract from his decision to fund the Wuhan lab.
'It's now clear in the earliest days of the pandemic public health officials in Washington were panicked,' Carlson said.
'Officials in Washington were terrified for themselves. They were afraid of being exposed.
'They had used American tax dollars to fund reckless experiments in China that in the end likely created COVID-19.
'If that fact were to become public it would be over. They would be shamed, and ridiculed - possibly even indicted. Their professional lives would be done.
'So they immediately set to work hiding it on a cover-up.'
Carlson argued that Fauci's emails - released this week to BuzzFeed, The Washington Post and anti-vax advocates Informed Consent Action Network - showed that he was deliberately misleading the public.
'Last winter a group of well-known scientists publicly dismissed the lab leak theory in a letter to The Lancet as absurd and categorically untrue,' Carlson said.
'And yet at the same time they wrote emails to each other conceding the virus did look engineered by human hands in a lab. 'Meanwhile, Tony Fauci worked on censorship.'
He accused Fauci of dismissing any suggestion of the 'lab leak' theory in order to cover up the fact that he had authorized payment of $826,000, over six years, to support their research into coronaviruses.
'Fauci made certain that the self-appointed fact checkers who control the flow of information in this country shut down anyone who dared challenge the official story which again we now know was a lie,' said Carlson.
Carlson, who mockingly calls the veteran health expert 'Saint Fauci' or 'Lord Fauci' or 'Pope Fauci', questioned the mortality rate, and asked whether it was bad enough to warrant lockdowns.
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