Tech giant Elon Musk, who is advising President-elect Donald Trump, has doubled down on his calls for the prosecution of former chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“My pronouns are still Prosecution/Fauci,” Musk wrote on X On Tuesday.
The post was a response to a pro-Trump account with the handle “Insurrection Barbie.”
“Fauci retired as the highest-paid government employee from the federal bureaucracy with a salary of $480,654. His pension is estimated to cost Rs 355,000 per year. His net worth is 11 million dollars. Not bad for a “public” servant, rebellion barbie wrote,
“So it’s amazing that on top of all this, we have spent $15 million on his security in the last two years. This is $15 million dollars that no one asked us if we wanted to hand over to America’s richest bureaucrat. Let’s not forget the royalties taken from vaccine manufacturers to push that shot. how much was that again? Like $5 million?” Said in the post.
Tesla and SpaceX founder calls for prosecution of Fauci Similar post two years ago alsoFauci, he said, “lied to Congress” and “funded research that killed millions of people.”
In early 2023, Fauci called Musk’s claims against him “insanity”.
“What are you suing me for? What are they talking about? I wish I could understand what they’re talking about. I think they’re going very deep,” Fauci said.
Musk — the world’s richest person with a net worth of $320.2 billion, according to Forbes — has a long history of attacking Fauci over his handling of the pandemic.
In 2020, he called panic over the pandemic “dumb”. After that $44 billion acquisition of Twitter In 2022, Musk ended the platform’s ban on questioning the origins of COVID-19.
Fauci resigned from his White House post and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2022.
In June, he Testified before House panel Investigation of the origin of the virus.
Republican lawmakers questioned Fauci over claims he funded research that created more dangerous, infectious strains of the virus in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected. Had gone. Representatives also questioned whether Fauci was involved in covering up the lab leak.
Fauci said the allegations were “absolutely false and absurd”.
Musk has been one of the biggest supporters of President-elect Donald Trump during this year’s race for the White House.
He donated more than $100 million to pro-Trump PACs, rallied on Trump’s behalf in key swing states and motivated Americans to vote early with a $1 million daily sweepstakes.
Trump has committed to a pitch Musk will create a government efficiency commission – and allow the billionaire to take charge.
Last month, Musk said he would use his government position to eliminate regulatory hurdles in approving fully autonomous EVs – one of the main challenges facing his company.
He also claimed that he could save the government at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
