Faucis legacy of lies paved the way for RFK Jr. and his conspiracy theories

Opposite every outrageous pronouncement from HHS Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

is the long shadow of Dr.Anthony Fauci, the formerly canonized COVID-era hero who has already been stripped of his sainthood.The lifelong liberal conspiracy theorist who endorsed President Donald Trump to secure a job in his administration sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for an explosive interview on Sunday, just a few days after Fauci spent the entirety of a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting pleading the Fifth Amendment.Yin and yang, but both incompetent and ruinous.Fauci’s sins are both too grave to exaggerate and too many to enumerate in full.The ex-NIAID director and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden sought to undermine the lab leak theory of Covid’s origins publicly even as he contemplated it privately.He relentlessly pushed destructive lockdowns and pointless masks, priming the public for a rejection of the much more efficacious vaccines to come.He suffered from reality-warping delusions of grandeur that caused him to declare criticism of his person criticism of “science,” and to devote untold amounts of time and energy to marveling at his own fame.“Press still hot and heavy about me,” he boasted to his diary during some of the country’s darkest days in April 2020.His arrogant, mendacious brand of “leadership” yielded excess deaths from the virus he sought to contain, bestowed untold suffering and learning loss on America’s children and ushered in the new, distrustful era in which Kennedy has thrived.The latter’s interview with Bash showed how.The anchor kicked off their conversation by baiting him to attack Trump in a bad-faith display for the ages.Then again, could anything more be expected of the very serious journalist who once told Fauci no one would have blamed him if he had told a Republican congressman to “go f–k himself” during a hearing?The rest of her performance reflected the same haughty attitude she so admired in Fauci...