Twitter owner Elon Musk appeared to call for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be brought up on criminal charges in a tweet on Sunday that also poked fun at people who post their gender pronouns.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk posted on Twitter Sunday morning. He also posted a photoshopped image of the retiring White House chief medical adviser whispering in President Biden’s ear captioned, “JUST ONE MORE LOCKDOWN MY KING…”
Musk, 51, later elaborated on why he thought Fauci — the face of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic— should be prosecuted.
“He lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome IMO,” he wrote on Twitter.
The 81-year-old has said he will be stepping down from both his position in the Biden administration and as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of the year.
Musk’s missives came as House Republicans have accused the outgoing official of lying about funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan, China.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert — who served as top medical advisor to every president since Ronald Regan — has told Congress that the NIH had funded research on bat coronaviruses, but had not genetically engineered the virus to be more transmissible to humans.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
He said last month that he would “absolutely” cooperate with any Congressional investigation into his handling of the pandemic and has maintained that his response to the health emergency was based on science, not politics.
Musk, who has called himself a centrist, acquired Twitter with the intent to stop censorship and bring back free speech to the platform. He urged voters to cast ballots for Republican House candidates in the midterm elections last month as way to check power in Washington.
His recently released bombshell “Twitter Files” have shown an insider’s perspective of how the company purportedly suppressed tweets from right-wing users under former owner Jack Dorsey, and banned The Post’s exposé on Hunter Biden’s eyebrow raising business practices following its publication in the weeks before his father’s 2020 victory.
