On CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Monday, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) argued that publicly attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci’s credibility puts him at risk and is “a threat to this country.”
“So, Congressman, did Republicans put Dr. Fauci further at risk today by publicly attacking his credibility?” host Wolf Blitzer asked.
Dingell responded: “I believe they did. And what concerns me, Mr. Wolf, is that people at the local level, the state level and the national level don’t trust public health. People don’t want to engage with public health. They’re afraid of it. They’re afraid of the attacks, the hatred, the division that’s out there. But it’s public health that’s keeping us safe. And when COVID started, we didn’t have a lot of answers. We’re investigating a lot of things. I want to be clear: what Dr. Fauci told me then, and what he’s been saying all these years, we don’t know where it came from. He was condoning a lab leak. It could have come from animals. It was the Trump administration that didn’t allow entry into China when they should have been allowed in to find out what was going to happen. … It’s a frightening threat to this country that people don’t trust public health officials.”
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