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Fauci’s legacy of lies paved the way for RFK Jr. and his conspiracy theories

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03.08.2026

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Fauci’s legacy of lies paved the way for RFK Jr. and his conspiracy theories 

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Opposite every outrageous pronouncement from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the long shadow of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the formerly canonized COVID-era hero who has already been stripped of his sainthood.

The lifelong liberal conspiracy theorist who endorsed President Donald Trump to secure a job in his administration sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for an explosive interview on Sunday, just a few days after Fauci spent the entirety of a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting pleading the Fifth Amendment.

Yin and yang, but both incompetent and ruinous.

Fauci’s sins are both too grave to exaggerate and too many to enumerate in full.

The ex-NIAID director and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden sought to undermine the lab leak theory of Covid’s origins publicly even as he contemplated it privately.

He relentlessly pushed destructive lockdowns and pointless masks, priming the public for a rejection of the much more efficacious vaccines to come.

Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink

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He suffered from reality-warping delusions of grandeur that caused him to declare........

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