Dr. Scott Atlas, the former White House coronavirus task force member, slammed Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci for trying to “rewrite history” during their recent CNN interviews.
“We are witnessing something incredible, really, which is people trying to overtly rewrite history. It’s the most insane thing I have ever seen. Of all the insanity I saw in the White House, this is the most despicable,” Atlas said during Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday evening.
Atlas was reacting to recent CNN clips of Fauci saying he was “shocked” by former President Donald Trump when he tweeted last year that Virginia and Michigan should be “liberated” from lockdown orders and to a video of Birx saying she was disheartened by Trump last April when he said he would “never shut the country down again.”
“What they are doing — these are people that advocated the curfews, the lockdowns, the school closures, the business restrictions, the lack of group visits for your own family, and those were implemented. Those were the policies on the ground of almost every single state, including the ones that Fauci just mentioned,” Atlas said.
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“Now they’re saying the people who criticize the policies that were implemented are responsible for the failures of the policies that were implemented,” Atlas added.
Atlas said he was “shocked” by his former colleagues’ comments, but he added that he “shouldn’t be,” saying, “These people don’t know truth if it hit them in the head.”
“You’re blaming people for criticizing what was done, and those were the people, these people on your show, who wanted what was done. They ought to look in the mirror, and they ought to go on TV and apologize if they think 500,000 people died. They were the cause of the policy. They recommended the policy that was done,” he said.
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Atlas’s comments come after Trump also slammed the pair of doctors on Monday following their CNN interviews.
“Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned,” Trump said. “They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine — putting millions of lives at risk.”
