Peter Navarro Pushes Batty Conspiracy Theory That Dr. Fauci Has 'Killed Millions of Americans'

[DonViejo]

By Ken Meyer May 10th

In case you aren’t aware, Peter Navarro hates Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yes, really, he absolutely loathes the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director. If you need proof, Navarro just offered plenty by pronouncing Fauci the “father” of the coronavirus, claiming Fauci wanted to “weaponize” it, and somehow assigning him blame for “millions” of Americans dying.

Navarro, former director of the White House National Trade Council under President Donald Trump, recently appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast to make the case for the Wuhan lab-leak Covid origin theory. He also took the opportunity to bash Fauci with the false insinuation that the NIAID helped create the coronavirus by funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Throughout the segment, Navarro tied Fauci to Peter Daszak, president of the New York City-based EcoHealth Alliance and member of the World Health Organization’s investigative team. Navarro claimed Fauci and Daszak were involved in the process to “weaponize” viruses, and that Fauci was setting up his colleague to be a “fall guy.”

Navarro’s attacks on Fauci are hardly out of the ordinary by this point. Despite pushing misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus multiple times during the Trump administration, Navarro held a one-sided feud with Fauci for months, consisting of personal insults and contradictions of the latter’s scientific recommendations. Even after the Trump presidency ended, Navarro has kept railing at Fauci by calling him “the father of the virus” and claiming “He allowed the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army to genetically engineer a virus using gain of function.”

Navarro went on to say, “Fauci pulled a fast one on the House of Trump, I’m telling ya.” He reached the grand finale as he summarized that “for whatever reason, Fauci wanted to weaponize the virus. He is the father of it. He has killed millions of Americans if that thing came from the lab, and now it’s 99.99 percent sure it did.”

video:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/peter-navarro-pushes-batty-conspiracy-theory-that-dr-fauci-has-killed-millions-of-americans/

[Laffy Kat]

1. Why doesn't Fauci sue? nt

[Peregrine Took]

6. I hate it when people take the high road and don't respond to vile lies.

Just like Kerry didn't push back on the "Band of Brother's" lies - people will believe this crap if there is no strong denial -

[world wide wally]

2. I hope Fauci sues his ass BIG TIME.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Hitting them in their wallets is the only way to make it stop, sadly. nt

[JohnSJ]

3. Navarro is a xenophobic racist jackass who bills himself as an economist. His views on trade and

economic thought are not only significantly outside the mainstream of most economists, but he is also considered fringe by those economists.

His thoughts on Covid are not only out of his element, but extremely dangerous. He pushed lies on Covid for the last four years with the trump administration.

Anyone who has seen him interviewed would conclude that he is mentally imbalanced

[ScratchCat]

4. There must be something

About to drop about the virus and Trump. This just otherwise makes no sense. Navarro has only seemed concerned with the blame being anywhere but on Trump.

[Rstrstx]

10. Could be. Gain of Function research was paused under Obama in 2014

It started back up at the end of 2017, the Trump administration would have had no excuses to blame it on the previous administration. It was paused in ‘14 because the Obama administration had safety concerns about unintended consequences if something went wrong. Navarro is trying to deflect from the undeniable fact that GOF research and grants were restarted on Trump’s watch, perhaps intentionally and with evidence to show it. He is relying on the fact that people who listen to him and other right-wing loonies don’t do much in-depth investigation of a subject but think they are edu-macated because they done heard it on the radio.

This is not an admission that Covid-19 was a GOF project from the Wuhan Institute, but there are some coincidences that make for great conspiracy theories (which the right wing loves) which are at odds with the very inconvenient fact that the Trump administration was the one that restarted research on it (something the right wing does NOT want to hear).

The Chinese government has only added fuel to the flames by A) denying inspectors critical information they need to do a proper forensic analysis on the subject and 2) someone in their government publicly pushed the even more ludicrous theory that maybe it was a bio-weapon brought in by the USA or other western country to the Wuhan Olympic Games in the fall of 2019.

[Baked Potato]

5. Navarro is a Psycho-Soldier pushing a 180 degree untruth in the propaganda wars.

He is assisting the T***pers unload an unpleasant fact by replacing truth with a story which absolves them from a shared responsibility for helping kill Americans. Nothing is too far fetched. They have their people captivated in the chamber.

[ZonkerHarris]

7. Line up the lawyers and sue the shit out of that guy.

[Silent3]

8. I'm so confused. Is COVID a giant hoax, a killer of millions (as if 600,000 isn't bad enough)...

...or somehow both at the same time?