{"id":343783,"date":"2020-04-13T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=343783"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:30:24","slug":"how-does-dr-fauci-get-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/13\/how-does-dr-fauci-get-away-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Dr. Fauci Get Away With It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. So, in the brief break, the brief segment we have, let me review here. “Coronavirus is not a major threat for the people in the United States and this is not something the citizens should be worried about,” Dr. Fauci, January 21st. He later said, “The American people…” Five days later, January 26: “The American people should not be worried or frightened by coronavirus. This is a very, very low risk to the United States.<\/p>\n

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“It isn\u2019t something the American public needs to be worried about or be frightened about.” Five days later, after Fauci says no big deal, Trump issued a travel ban on China. Five days later. Today, Saturday, and all weekend: “Trump unprepared! People died! Trump lied. Trump lazy. Trump incompetent. Trump not engaged. Trump\u2019s lousy instincts.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci yesterday on CNN: “If Trump had listened to our recommendations, we could have saved lives sooner.” Wait, what? “Coronavirus is not a major threat and it\u2019s not something the citizens should be worried about,” Dr. Fauci. “The American people should not be worried or frightened by it. It\u2019s very, very low risk.” What?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019ve no quarrel with Dr. Fauci\u2019s medical credentials. I\u2019m not gonna even address them. I have no problem with Dr. Fauci and his qualifications as a doctor, his qualifications as an infectious disease specialist at the National Institutes of Health. But there is clearly a political effort underway that has been underway since prior to the election in November 2016 to destroy President Trump.<\/p>\n

It is an effort that continued after the election of 2016, and it continues. It had its own component during the transition. They tried to actually do things that would prevent Trump being inaugurated, that would cause people to reexamine Trump\u2019s legitimacy — and then, after Trump was inaugurated, the efforts to get rid of him continued. And they all knew what they were using as evidence was bogus. They all knew. Every one of them knew.<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s happening today with the politicization of the economic shutdown in relationship to coronavirus is a continuation of that. Much as many of you wish it weren\u2019t true and don\u2019t want to believe it, it is. So we have no quarrel with Dr. Fauci and his medical credentials. We have no quarrel with Dr. Fauci and his concern for his patients. But there are some things that he needs to explain.<\/p>\n

If the president of the United States is gonna be the victim of a hitjob in New York Times on Saturday with a bogus charge<\/a> that he was not prepared, when he actually was the only one who was by shutting down travel from China on January 26th. It\u2019s just a public service to review some of the things that the person the media is going to as the singular authority on every aspect of this way beyond his medical credentials.<\/p>\n

Do you realize Dr. Fauci\u2019s being turned to as an expert on reopening? He\u2019s being turned to as an expert on when it\u2019s coming back. He\u2019s being turned to as the expert on reopening schools. He\u2019s the expert on how to operate restaurants when they reopen. Dr. Fauci is being turned to as the totally accountable and you-can\u2019t-question-what-he-says expert on all of these things that have nothing to do with his medical qualifications.<\/p>\n

This is not right. It\u2019s grossly unfair to President Trump. It\u2019s grossly unfair to all of us. So to review… Repetition is a primary ingredient to persuasion. “Coronavirus is not a major threat for the people in the United States, and this is not something the citizens should be worried about,” Dr. Anthony Fauci January 21st. Five days later on a podcast with the New York grocery store magnate, John Catsimatidis…<\/p>\n

\"\"He is a grocery store guy, right, Snerdley? Catsimatidis? (interruption) Yeah, he is. January 26:<\/a> “The American people should not be worried or frightened by this. Very, very low risk for the United States.” Dr. Fauci five days later, after saying coronavirus was “not a major threat for the people, not something citizens should be worried about,” he said, “It isn\u2019t something the American people need to worry about or frightened by this.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci… What is the date? I have to search for the date. Well, the story is March 9th, and it\u2019s Forbes. Dr. Fauci: “If you are a healthy young person, there\u2019s no reason. If you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship.” Remember the Song of Princess or the Virus Princess, whatever, docked or offshore in Japan where everybody on it had the virus? When was that? This Dr. Fauci in a story March 9th, Forbes:<\/p>\n

“If you are a healthy young person, there is no reason. If you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship.” Dr. Fauci yesterday on CNN: “If Trump had listened to our recommendations, we could have saved lives.” Dr. Fauci\u2019s recommendations — I\u2019m sorry — were to ignore the coronavirus. Dr. Fauci\u2019s recommendations on January 21st and 25th (summarized): “It\u2019s not something the citizens should be worried about. It\u2019s not something citizens should be frightened by. It\u2019s very, very low risk.”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s audio sound bite number 6 today, CNN State of the Union, Jake Tapper talking to Dr. Fauci, said, “The New York Times reported [in their bogus hit job yesterday] that you and other top Trump officials wanted to recommend social and physical distancing guidelines to President Trump as far back as the third week of February. The administration didn\u2019t announce such guidelines until March 16th, almost a month later. Why?”<\/p>\n

FAUCI: We look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Often the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it\u2019s not. But it is what it is. We are where we are right now.<\/p>\n

TAPPER: Do you think lives could have been saved, uhh, if social distancing, physical distancing, stay-at-home measures had started third week of February instead of mid-March?<\/p>\n

FAUCI: Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is gonna deny that. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.<\/p>\n