White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at a briefing on Monday addressed questions about Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s critique of Biden’s Covid czar Dr. Anthony Fauci. Musk took aim at Fauci over the weekend, accusing him of lying to the American people. Jean-Pierre said it was “dangerous” to criticize the federal medical official.
Fauci has been at the center of Covid policy since the beginning of 2020. He advocated for school closures, vaccine mandates and masking, for people to spend time alone on holidays, and has been the subject of an investigation by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has looked into what Fauci knew, and when, about gain-of-function research that he suspects may have been a contributing factor to the emergence of the Covid virus on the world stage. Read more…
