Dr. Anthony Fauci was caught on a hot mic calling a Republican senator a “moron” during a contentious Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday.
“What a moron, Jesus Christ!” Fauci could be heard saying after being questioned by Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas about disclosing his investments to Congress which Fauci, the highest paid federal employee in government, says he has done for decades.
“As the highest paid employee in the entire federal government,” Marshall, a military veteran and a physician, asked. “Yes or no, would you be willing to submit to Congress and the public a financial disclosure that includes your past and current investments?”
Fauci responded, “I don’t understand why you’re asking me that question. My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last thirty-seven years or so, 35 years.”
Marshall then accused “big tech giants” of keeping that information from the public to which Fauci said, “All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed. It’s extraordinary.”
The two continued to spar before Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington intervened at which point Fauci was caught on the hot mic disparaging Marshall.
Fauci’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
In the Senate hearing, Fauci also clashed with Republican Sen. Rand Paul accusing him of “distorting everything about me,” which he said is Paul’s “usual fashion.”
Paul, a fierce critic of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases director, accused Fauci of playing a role in smearing doctors from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford who had positions different from his own.
Dr Anthony Fauci speaks only the truth. It was ok for former president Donald J Trump to go on live mics cursing opponents a lot more than Dr Fauci. Dr Fauci has more brains in his nose than former President Trump has in his whole body. Sick of hearing all this bullshit from the republicans. But if the democrats say a word about one of the republicans, they always call foul. Ok for them, so get over yourselves. Maybe if the former President didn’t give a wave of his hands saying this Covid thing would be over in a couple of weeks, we might be in a very different spot. If 10-15 republicans would have some balls, Susan collins, Lisa mukowski, Mitt, on and on and on. All the repubs want our new President to do is fail. Shame on all of them. How many times did old man McConnell screw the dems with the fillibuster rules. Ok for them, but god forbid that the dems did it. There is no way any senator should have that much power. Look how many times McConnell screwed the dems. Especially # 44. McConnell is why the Supreme Court has now gone political. Which republican is going to question all these new justices, because if we all remember the proceedings every one of the new justices said Roe vs Wade is here to stay. Remember. Maybe they are going senile. Not President Biden. Republicans lie, and I hope they are tossed out on their ears.