Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is calling on President Biden to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, writing in an op-ed Saturday that it is time for the president to make good on his promise to “choose science over fiction.”
Rubio made it clear that it was “never ‘conspiratorial’ to suggest that the first human infection of the coronavirus could have resulted from a laboratory accident” and slammed Fauci, a White House medical adviser, for dismissing the possibility.
“It was a massive failure in judgment for a prominent public health official — though in retrospect unsurprising, given his history of holding back the truth based on personal judgments about when he thinks the American people are ‘ready’ to hear the facts,” Rubio wrote following the emergence of Fauci emails revealing how the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director spoke about the virus and its origins behind the scenes.
“In most science-based jobs, that would be a fireable offense, but Fauci ran free without any accountability. Meanwhile, some of his peers who sought to raise questions about the possibility of a lab leak were silenced,” Rubio wrote, calling out Fauci for lying about dismissing the lab leak theory