Former White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “unconscionable” handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during a Friday night appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Atlas, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, brought a much-needed dose of reality to President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force last summer before stepping down in November 2020. During that time, he went toe-to-toe with the lockdown positions espoused by Fauci and fellow member Dr. Deborah Birx, and received plenty of criticism along the way.
Some of that criticism came from Fauci himself, who, as we’ve seen through his interactions with Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, isn’t particularly fond of being publicly disagreed with.
In the wake of Buzzfeed’s massive FOIA reveal of thousands of Fauci emails, however, it was Atlas’ turn to throw a few well-deserved punches: