Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted at Wednesday’s event to Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director.
Fauci said Monday that he would be leaving the White House in December after serving as chief medical advisor to Biden and NIAID director. (RELATED: DeSantis Bars Florida Fund Managers From Using ESG In State Pension Investments)
“I’m just sick of seeing him,” DeSantis said at the event. I know that he is going to retire. You need to get that little elf out of your sight and throw him over the Potomac .”
DESANTIS FAUCI. He says that he is retiring. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac!”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 24, 2022
House Republicans have vowed to continue to investigate Fauci for alleged mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2021, a researcher connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China personally thanked Fauci for suppressing the theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab. The Fauci-directed NIAID did not flag for review a more than $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its gain-of-function research.