House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called on Dr. Anthony Fauci to resign from his position in the Biden administration, saying people “don’t have trust” in the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
“I mean, everything we’re finding there, how can the president — and I know the American people don’t have trust in Dr. Fauci,” McCarthy said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday. “Let’s find a person we can trust. Take politics aside. I mean we’re talking about American lives here.”
McCarthy’s comments come as Fauci, who works as Biden’s chief medical adviser and as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saw more than 3,000 of his emails made public by a Freedom of Information Act request.
McCarthy said that people should be able to trust leaders on questions such as the origins of COVID-19, but Fauci has lost that trust.
“Yeah,” McCarthy said when asked if Fauci should resign, “because you do not have the trust in him.”
“We’re talking about an administration that shifted course when they first came in, the Biden administration, and gave millions of dollars back to the World Health Organization that lied to the world that is controlled by China,” McCarthy said. “We watched that they changed the direction when we were standing up to China to appease China now. This is the wrong direction, and I don’t believe anybody in America can trust that to get to the bottom of it.”
McCarthy joins a long list of Republicans calling on Fauci to resign, including Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Paul, a longtime critic of Fauci’s, posted multiple times about the emails, along with the hashtag #FireFauci. Meanwhile, Rubio penned an op-ed titled “If Biden believes in science, he must fire Fauci.”
McCarthy argued that Fauci has changed positions on the virus too frequently, quipping that following the doctor’s positions gives him “whiplash.”
“I need a chiropractor anytime he talks because he gives me whiplash from one position to the other,” McCarthy said.
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“You’ve got to trust the individuals to look into this. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died, and as he’s taken every certain position in it, how are you able to come back with the trust of the nation to get to the bottom of it?” he added. “We have to know what went on and who knew what and when.”
