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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNation's top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci forced to beef up security as death threats increa
" CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic and a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, is facing threats to his personal safety and now requires personal security from law enforcement at all times, including at his home, a source confirms to CNN.
A law enforcement official told CNN that the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General, the agency's law enforcement arm, asked the US Marshals Service for assistance following threats to Fauci. The Marshals then deputized HHS officers to act as personal security for the doctor.
The Washington Post first reported the threats to Fauci and the increased security.
A source also confirmed to CNN last week the presence of several members of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department stationed at all times around Fauci's home in the district. The source added the stepped up visible police presence was a response to growing threats to Fauci's safety, though the source of the threats was not identified.
During the White House coronavirus task force briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Fauci was asked whether he or White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, who also serves on the task force, had received threats of any kind or whether they had been assigned a security detail. He said he was not able to answer.
"Anything that has to do with security detail I would have to have you (ask your question) to the inspector general of HHS," he said, referencing the Department of Health and Human Services.
Fauci's response was quickly interrupted by Trump, who stepped up to the podium to say the nation's most visible infectious disease expert doesn't require protection."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/anthony-fauci-security-detail/index.html
Right wing propagandists on talk radio spreading disinformation trying to get followers to believe the pandemic is a hoax, putting all our lives in danger.
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Nation's top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci forced to beef up security as death threats increa (Original Post)
orangecrush
Apr 2020
OP
I would say it's stupid to kill the person who's trying to save you . . .
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Apr 2020
#2
As if we needed more evidence the IQ45 cultists hate facts, and are a clear danger to society nt
mr_lebowski
Apr 2020
#5
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R
Ridiculous they are targeting tge Dr!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)2. I would say it's stupid to kill the person who's trying to save you . . .
but then again, we just had some idiot engineer try to ram the hospital ship Mercy with his train.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)3. Just more resources to be billed to Trump's bungling of this disaster.
All things considered along with Covid-19, he's putting us
in a hole it will take us generations to crawl out of.
BComplex
(8,053 posts)4. AGAIN!!! FOX news and rush limbaugh. Death threats.
What is different than shouting "fire" in a crowded theater when they keep stirring up these nut cases?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)5. As if we needed more evidence the IQ45 cultists hate facts, and are a clear danger to society nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)6. FreeRepublic members are threatening physical violence against him
"Fauci is enjoying the economic disaster. No skin off his back, as he
works for govt."
First, kill all the <strike>lawyers</strike> doctors.
22 posted on 3/23/2020 by central_va
Someone may need to flatten the curve of Faucis face with a crow bar.
84 posted on 3/23/2020 by central_va
works for govt."
First, kill all the <strike>lawyers</strike> doctors.
22 posted on 3/23/2020 by central_va
Someone may need to flatten the curve of Faucis face with a crow bar.
84 posted on 3/23/2020 by central_va
Google found:
'I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down': Fauci says
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Someone may need to flatten the curve of Fauci's face with a crow bar. 84 posted on 3/23/2020, 6:30:27 AM by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not ...
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Someone may need to flatten the curve of Fauci's face with a crow bar. 84 posted on 3/23/2020, 6:30:27 AM by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not ...