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Twitter owner Elon Musk on Sunday appeared to call for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be brought up on criminal charges while also chiding people who post their gender pronouns.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted 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, did not elaborate why he thought Fauci — the face of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — should be prosecuted. The 81-year-old has said he will be stepping down from both his position in the Biden administration and as director of the 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.
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.
