Elon Musk, the tech giant who advises President-elect Donald Trump, has doubled down on calls for the prosecution of former chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“My pronouns are still indicted/Fauci.” Mr. Musk wrote about X on tuesday.
The post was in response to a pro-Trump account with the handle “Insurrection Barbie.”
“Mr. Fauci retired from the federal civil service as the highest-paid civil servant with a salary of $480,654. His pension is estimated to cost $355,000 a year. His net worth is $11 million. Not bad for a 'public servant.' do not have” Written by Riot Barbie.
“It's amazing that on top of all this, we spent $15 million on his security over the past two years. That's 1,500 million dollars that no one asked America's richest bureaucrat if he wanted to give money to. Let's not forget the royalties he received from vaccine manufacturers for promoting this vaccination. And how much was that? About $5 million?” It was dark.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder called for Fauci to be prosecuted in a similar post two years ago, accusing him of “lying to Congress” and funding “research that has killed millions of people.” said.
In early 2023, Fauci called Musk's claims against him “insane.”
“Why are they filing charges? What are they talking about? I wish I could understand what the hell they're saying. I think they're just overstepping their bounds,” Fauci said. he said.
Mr. Musk, the world's richest man with a net worth of $320.2 billion, according to Forbes, has a long history of attacking Mr. Fauci over his handling of the pandemic.
In 2020, he called the panic over the pandemic “ridiculous.” After buying Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, Musk lifted a ban on the platform that questioned the origins of the coronavirus.
Fauci resigned from his White House job and as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2022.
He testified in June before the House committee investigating the origins of the virus.
Republican lawmakers say Fauci is funding research to create more dangerous and more contagious strains of the virus in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected. Fauci was harshly criticized for doing so. Lawmakers also questioned whether Fauci was involved in covering up the lab leak.
Fauci said the accusations are “completely false and completely ridiculous.”
Musk was one of President-elect Donald Trump's biggest supporters in this year's White House campaign.
He has donated more than $100 million to pro-Trump PACs, rallied on Trump's behalf in key battleground states, and offered $1 million a day to encourage Americans to vote early.
President Trump has pledged to take up Mr. Musk's proposal to create a government efficiency commission and give billionaires control of the government.
Last month, Musk said he would use his government position to eliminate regulatory obstacles to approval of fully self-driving electric vehicles, one of the main challenges facing the company.
He also claimed it would save the government at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
