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Tom Yossarian Joad

(19,211 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:03 AM Mar 2020

Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right

Source: NYT

At a White House briefing on the coronavirus on March 20, President Trump called the State Department the “Deep State Department.” Behind him, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dropped his head and rubbed his forehead.

Some thought Dr. Fauci was slighting the president, leading to a vitriolic online reaction. On Twitter and Facebook, a post that falsely claimed he was part of a secret cabal who opposed Mr. Trump was soon shared thousands of times, reaching roughly 1.5 million people.

A week later, Dr. Fauci — the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak — has become the target of an online conspiracy theory that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.

That fanciful claim has spread across social media, fanned by a right-wing chorus of Mr. Trump’s supporters, even as Dr. Fauci has won a public following for his willingness to contradict the president and correct falsehoods and overly rosy pronouncements about containing the virus.

An analysis by The New York Times found over 70 accounts on Twitter that have promoted the hashtag #FauciFraud, with some tweeting as frequently as 795 times a day. The anti-Fauci sentiment is being reinforced by posts from Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and other outspoken Trump supporters such as Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email.

Much more at the link.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/technology/coronavirus-fauci-trump-conspiracy-target.html

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Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right (Original Post) Tom Yossarian Joad Mar 2020 OP
The Far Right are insane PJMcK Mar 2020 #1
Yup Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #9
Thorazine every one of these sick bastards. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #14
ah, that slimy Judicial Watch is involved............... riversedge Mar 2020 #2
These morons are petty as fuck. Initech Mar 2020 #3
The far right needs to drink a bunch of chloroquine phosphate, just to pwn the libtard doctors Blue Owl Mar 2020 #4
The most insane part is they are in the long run hurting Trump madeup64 Mar 2020 #5
Paid pootin puppets? 2naSalit Mar 2020 #6
Precisely. Ligyron Mar 2020 #7
That would be my guess FakeNoose Mar 2020 #10
+1 crickets Mar 2020 #13
Trump has kept Fauci around long enough that if he dropped him now, it'd be a mistake. oldsoftie Mar 2020 #8
no doubt in my mind they could be violent.. mountain grammy Mar 2020 #11
Somewhere in Moscow... SergeStorms Mar 2020 #12
That's what being "right wing" means these days lees1975 Mar 2020 #15

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,790 posts)
9. Yup
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:46 AM
Mar 2020
"Fauci is enjoying the economic disaster. No skin off his back, as he
works for govt."
First, kill all the <strike>lawyers</strike> doctors.
22 posted on 3/23/2020 AM by central_va
Someone may need to flatten the curve of Fauci’s face with a crow bar.
84 posted on 3/23/2020 by central_va

Fauci is a deep state scientist who can’t take a punch. Trump is a
hard-knuckle businessman leader willing to do whatever it takes to
win.
They make a good team.
31 posted on 3/23/2020 by Oldeconomybuyer

Scientific totalitarianism on display. EXACTLY It's what happens when
you drag a medical license through a swamp.
39 posted on 3/23/2020 AM by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)

“Shortman syndrome with poor communication skills”
Yes! This. And permit me to add; poor communication
skills,-anti-American-Hillary-loving-big-pharma-deep-state-tool.
43 posted on 3/23/2020 by stonehouse01

I think we’ve seen the last of Fauxci.
PDJT should have a hotel manager, a. Leaning lady from a hotel at the
presser and let Nanzi and Shoe-mah have it by name and call out their
love for baby murders as the reason these folks are laid-off.
61 posted on 3/23/2020 by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and
know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)

A typical Hillary-loving Democrat, Fauci has the dreaded TV camera
virus. He shouldn’t be allowed into the pressers unless he publicly
apologizes to the president and acknowledges that people are being
saved by using the treatment encouraged by President Trump.
113 posted on 3/23/2020 by txrefugee

riversedge

(69,731 posts)
2. ah, that slimy Judicial Watch is involved...............
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:17 AM
Mar 2020



..........An analysis by The New York Times found over 70 accounts on Twitter that have promoted the hashtag #FauciFraud, with some tweeting as frequently as 795 times a day. The anti-Fauci sentiment is being reinforced by posts from Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and other outspoken Trump supporters such as Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email.

Blue Owl

(49,937 posts)
4. The far right needs to drink a bunch of chloroquine phosphate, just to pwn the libtard doctors
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:23 AM
Mar 2020

Go ahead, drink up...

madeup64

(256 posts)
5. The most insane part is they are in the long run hurting Trump
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 02:35 AM
Mar 2020

Do they think that pushing conspiracy theories will stop the spread of Covid-19? Fauci is the one person that Trump has that normal people have trust for first off. From a purely political advantageous perspective he is the voice of reason and not a fucking meth addled rhino like Trump. Which helps calm the masses and is better to help us thru this.

Secondly if they keep pushing the conspiracies its only gonna make Covid-19 worse, kill more, cause more damage which hurts his re-election chances. Its like nothing is more important than ensuring Trump is never challenged or any info contradicting him released to ensure his followers keep believing "he knows all and is never wrong." Its just how Hitler was treated by his subordinates. So sick of the never ending conspiracy bullshit from Trumpland.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
8. Trump has kept Fauci around long enough that if he dropped him now, it'd be a mistake.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:40 AM
Mar 2020

I see Trumpers posting videos of him all the time. Getting rid of him would chip away SOME of the followers. And each time something happens that eats away even a tiny bit, it all adds up to DEFEAT

mountain grammy

(26,573 posts)
11. no doubt in my mind they could be violent..
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 09:55 AM
Mar 2020

I have a nephew who dreams about lining up "libruls" and shooting them..

SergeStorms

(18,907 posts)
12. Somewhere in Moscow...
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 10:01 AM
Mar 2020

there's a building containing a certain number of trolls whose job it is to destroy Democratic Governments around the world. In the Unites States section of that troll farm, there's a single troll who's studied Donald Trump and his far right toadies extensively, and in a few minutes a day can push enough of their moronic buttons to keep them howling for weeks. This troll has the easiest job in the troll farm, because fools are so easy to manipulate. Putin loves this troll, and one day this troll will be given the 'Hero of the Russian Federation' award for destroying the United States from within, by manipulating the feeble minded nitwits of the far right.

lees1975

(3,726 posts)
15. That's what being "right wing" means these days
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 10:08 PM
Mar 2020

Name calling and denial.

Do we get it, Bernie and Biden people? This man must be defeated at the polls in November so badly that it teaches the GOP a lesson. How do we get this done?

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