Coronavirus: Right-wing anti-lockdown protest hailed by Trump featured disturbing 'hang Fauci' sign

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“People can’t get enough of this. Great people!” Mr Trump tweeted on Saturday in support of the protesters, many of whom were the president’s supporters.

Though the sign calling for the execution of Dr Anthony Fauci did not feature in the social media video, it appeared in a TV report by Mr Vesey for News 12 Long Island.

“Hang Fauci, hang Gates, open up all our states,” reads the sign, which is shown to the camera by a male demonstrator.

The threatening message references Dr Fauci and Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft founder who has sounded the alarm on pandemics and has become the centre of unfounded conspiracy theories among some on the far-right about Covid-19.

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