{"id":77545,"date":"2022-02-07T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/republicans-step-up-attacks-on-fauci-to-woo-trump-voters\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:37:59","slug":"republicans-step-up-attacks-on-fauci-to-woo-trump-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/republicans-step-up-attacks-on-fauci-to-woo-trump-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Step Up Attacks on Fauci to Woo Trump Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"
Later in that same hearing, Dr. Fauci muttered under his breath that Mr. Marshall was \u201ca moron\u201d \u2014 a comment caught on an open microphone \u2014 after the senator posted Dr. Fauci\u2019s salary on a placard and demanded his financial disclosure forms, suggesting he might be engaged in financial \u201cshenanigans\u201d with the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n
(Dr. Fauci\u2019s financial disclosure forms, which Mr. Marshall has since posted on the internet, show investments in bonds and mutual funds, not drug companies. He is paid an annual salary of $434,312 under a provision that allows government doctors and scientists to be highly compensated, akin to what they could earn in the private sector.)<\/p>\n
Dr. Fauci said he did not regret the \u201cmoron\u201d remark, or the pushback against Mr. Paul. But Ms. Timken said calling Mr. Marshall a moron was \u201cbeyond the pale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even some Fauci fans in academia and government say he might have been better off keeping his cool to avoid amplifying his Republican critics and alienating voters who need to hear his public health message. Some suggest he lower his profile; he says the White House asks him to go on TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been pushing back in a way that is not common for us to see for American scientists, and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a good idea,\u201d said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.<\/p>\n