Anthony Fauci Reveals 'Serious Threats' To Himself, His Family

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-fauci-threats-coronavirus_n_5f1aa207c5b6128e6823ed32

07/24/2020 05:50 am ET Updated 1 hour ago

“it’s a little bit disturbing,” said the prominent coronavirus expert of the venomous attacks that require him and his family to have extra security.

Anthony Fauci revealed a chilling personal consequence of his prominence as the nation’s top infectious disease expert during the coronavirus pandemic.

Fauci said on Thursday that he’s received “serious threats” to himself, his wife and daughters ― requiring them to have extra security ― because of his public role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and adviser to President Donald Trump on the White House coronavirus task force.

“I’ve seen a side of society that I guess is understandable, but it’s a little bit disturbing,” Fauci told CNN political commentator David Axelrod on the latest episode of “The Axe Files” podcast.

“I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?” he asked.

Fauci’s warnings and advice on the public health crisis ― including advocating social distancing measures and face masks ― has repeatedly put him in conflict with the president and his allies. President Donald Trump has consistently downplayed the pandemic, pressed to reopen schools and businesses, held campaign events that ignored social distancing and refused to wear a face mask until recent days.

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[soothsayer]

1. Probably coming from Birx.

Seriously, people are really messed up.

[Hekate]

11. On what do you base this, aside from personal animus?

[soothsayer]

14. Nothing, I'm just being a wiseguy

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. "I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?" he asked.

It is the United States of Trumpistan. This is what the Trump and his his GOP accomplices have turned the US into. Truth, especially scientific truth that does not adhere to their narrative must be suppressed, and the people promulgating it must be destroyed.

[sarchasm]

35. Agreed.

Born in 1954 I fear this is what we've always been. I know there is a lot of good in this country, evidenced by the intrepid membership of DU, but the constant drip of deregulation, the dismantling of New Deal collectivism and public education, and an electorate unwilling to go to the polls, will seal our fate unless we can turn all that around.

Hope lies in the youth stepping up to the vanguard of resistance, of which I applaud. AOC is a pillar of hope for the future, but I am terrified by the silence of Republicans to her recent attack, especially the silence of Republican women.

[Miguelito Loveless]

41. You read my mind

A time of reckoning is coming.

[JudyM]

3. How are these cretins not dying en masse?

[Mariana]

13. Why should they be? nt.

[gordianot]

33. They may be already remember the CDC numbers are filtered through the asylum of the Whitehouse.

Closing down the live hate fest in Jacksonville is probably a good indicator.

[JudyM]

38. The numbers don't tell the whole tale.

If only hospital intake histories for Covid would include whether the patient has been a dedicated mask wearer, at least for the few preceding weeks. This has high epidemiological relevance and would make the association crystal clear. They ask about condom use during HIV intake, I believe...

How are you connecting his followers dying with shutting down the CONvention?

[gordianot]

40. How do I connect the live convention with numbers shut down?

The potential participants are old have lived and promoted fear for decades and Jacksonville is not exactly safe.

[LuckyCharms]

4. I'll lose my shit if something happens to him. n/t

[Cha]

5. It's trump's the United States of the Living Dead.

Maskless Zombies

[SheltieLover]

23. This!👆

So sick of people being bullied! 🤬

Aloha, Cha!

[Cha]

24. I am too, Sheltie..

So very sick of it.. Enough Twilight Zone.

I want a world striving for Peace.. Not Nazis & Fascists.

Aloha!

[SheltieLover]

25. And

I want those bullies prosecuted!

[Cha]

29. Oh yes! Full Extent.

[SheltieLover]

30. Absolutely!

Can you imagine this sort of thing happening -- even 5 years ago? 😳🤯

[uponit7771]

6. In this movie the non Zombies attack the doctors ... after ... the pandemic begins !!!

[HotTeaBag]

7. Pathetic.

Simply pathetic.

Thanks Trump.

[dalton99a]

8. We are ruled by a murderous tyrant.

[HAB911]

9. Same people saying

Wayfair is running a child sex ring and Bill Gates invented the 'Rona. Serious mental illness afoot in the land.

[spanone]

10. Welcome to trumpamerica

[Mariana]

12. The right wingers hate him because he has contradicted Trump.

As far as the cult members are concerned, he has committed blasphemy.

[bamagal62]

15. And, it's all Trump's fault that

he’s getting threats. Full stop

[cayugafalls]

16. This is trumps America. If trump doesn't like you and he calls you out, you are marked.

And his followers will try and take you out.

This is so freaking dangerous. Why is he allowed to even exist?

[infullview]

17. It's all the deplorables that make up tRumps base.

[BarbD]

18. The republican enablers who cowardly hide their heads in the sand

are totally responsible for the misery inflicted on Americans.

They all need to be voted out in November.

[malaise]

19. No one is safe in the Con's America

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States..."

[PatSeg]

20. Who would have thought that

a 79 year old infectious disease expert would be targeted with death threats? The man is not and never has been political, he was just doing his job and probably never expected this much attention. In today's climate, no one is safe.

[FakeNoose]

21. Why doesn't he name names?

I hope the info on those threats has been turned over to authorities. There's no reason Dr. Fauci or any other governmental authority should be receiving threats in private. This is the type of behavior that Chump secretly encourages "the crazies" to keep doing.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Friggin' insane!

This should not be happening- in any reality.

[Botany]

26. And Putin is fanning the flames of these dumb ass fuck-tards through targeted social media and ....

.... hate talk radio/TV.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/us/kentucky-confederate-statue-brandenburg.html

[Traildogbob]

27. Not solely trumps responsibility

This is the result of Fox, Rusty Limpballs, Alex Jones, evilgrlicals, and basically the GOP. They all have been festering below the skin and now this massive zit is gonna spew the pus all over our constitution. Trump is the pus they forced to the top of the zit While all those entities are still festering up more pus.

[niyad]

28. We have been saying for months that we hope he has excellent security.

[Boomerproud]

31. You guess it's understandable and a little bit disturbing?

Is he always this passive?

[iluvtennis]

32. Threatening him/family because he's doing his job as infectious disease expert - just DEPLORABLE. nt

[calimary]

34. This is DISGUSTING!

And, let's just be crystal clear. OUR sides NOT the ones who make threats and then try to do something about it (with guns). Never forget the armed REPUBLICAN dumbfuck who took it upon himself to "investigate" the child sex operation Hillary Clinton was supposed to be running in the basement of some pizza joint in Washington DC. Spurred on by REPUBLICAN-slanted hate radio.

And guess what he found when he got to the site, WITH his gun at the ready? NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING!!! Not even a damn basement underneath the damn pizza joint. It didn't even HAVE a basement! And how many state lines did this loser jerk cross, while packing heat, I wonder? Public fucking MENACE! And, as usual, WRONG!

[MadLinguist]

36. There is epidemic level propoganda out there against Fauci, Gates, H Clinton and Biden

Formerly sane people I know are convinced that there is some massive conspiracy that intends to implant people with microchips or some such nonsense when the vaccine becomes available, all under the guise of fear of what they consider a fake virus scare -- even though they also profess to believe that the virus was constructed for this exact purpose. I really think this social media generated propaganda is going to have a far greater impact on the upcoming election than has been acknowledged. I hope Fauci is getting secret service protection because these people are nuts and they egg each other on for behaving more and more nuttily

[lpbk2713]

37. The keyboard commandos are at it again.

Mommy should take away their internet privileges.

[smirkymonkey]

39. This is insane and infuriating!

I don't even recognize this country anymore. What the hell is wrong with people?

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. I don't get it. He's advised every President since Reagan.

But my boss's wife wouldn't watch the baseball game because he was throwing the first pitch.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

43. And I'm sure it's all MAGATs making the threats.