“Do you really think it’s appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to attack scientists that disagree with you?” “I think in usual fashion, senator, you are distorting everything about me.” “Did you ever object to Dr. Collins’ characterization of them as fringe? Did you write back to Dr. Collins saying, ‘No, they’re not fringe, they’re esteemed scientists, and it would be beneath me to do that.’” “I did not —” “This happens all the time. You personally attack me with absolutely no evidence of what you say. He accused me of being responsible, the last time we met, of being responsible for the deaths of five, four, or five million people. What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there and I have life — threats upon my life, harassment of my family. So I thought, “Why would senator do this?” So go to Rand Paul website, and you see ‘Fire Dr. Fauci’ with a little box that says, ‘Contribute here.’ You can do $5, $10, $20, $100. So you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain.”
Source: NY Times
