Fauci was on Fox News talking to Neil Cavuto about COVID and admitted the same thing that Trump said last year when the media went ballistic, calling him racist:
WATCH: Dr. Fauci refers to the original virus as the "Wuhan strain" pic.twitter.com/CTH6NU0XyP
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 3, 2021
Fauci said:
We were vaccinated against the original, what we call the ancestral or ‘Wuhan strain’…
I thought it was racist to refer to this virus as having come from Wuhan, China. Since when did it become acceptable to say it’s the ‘Wuhan virus’ or ‘Wuhan strain’?
The double standard by these fools is incredible. Here’s a little reaction:
Fauci finally said what we’ve always known: this was the Wuhan virus. pic.twitter.com/U0QnqwiN17
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) December 3, 2021
Science has spoken. https://t.co/B10aqpGlFw
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) December 3, 2021
More rank bigotry and xenophobia from Fox News guests. There is no bottom. https://t.co/7apgs92t40
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 3, 2021
I was told by everyone at CNN that this was racist
What gives @jaketapper? Is this racist or not https://t.co/BV2d2hfXuU
— Ahmed Al Assliken (@assliken) December 3, 2021
I have diagnosed Dr. Fauci with white supremacy https://t.co/oToQQaTrJk
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) December 3, 2021