MAGA supporters reiterate calls for Dr. Anthony Fauci be prosecuted after the election of Donald Trump for a second term.

Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a prominent figure advising the Asset administration in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. He later served as president Joe Bidenchief medical advisor from January 2021 to December 2022.

Since then, the Republicans have turned against himincluding Trump allies, claiming the infectious disease expert tried to suppress information about the origins of Covid-19. They also made baseless claims that he funded research that sparked a pandemic that killed millions.

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Some even said he should be prosecuted. “My pronouns are Pursuit/Fauci,” Elon Musk » tweeted in 2022.

Senator from Texas Ted Cruz tweeted the same year: “Dr. Fauci flat out lied Congress. Again Merrick Garland and Biden’s DOJ will not prosecute. »

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to become President-elect Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services and who has pushed baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines, said Fox News in 2023, Fauci should be prosecuted if he committed crimes.

“If he had committed crimes, of course I would ask the attorney general to prosecute him, not wait,” Kennedy said.

It is unclear what charge would be brought against Fauci if he were to be prosecuted. Fauci has denied the accusations against him.

Amid Trump’s election victory last week, his allies increased calls for Dr. Fauci to be prosecuted, with Musk, accused of promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, tweeting again on Tuesday: “My pronouns are always sue/Fauci. “

In response, MAGA representative Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote: “I agree! I told Dr. Fauci to his face that he should be in prison and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.”

Before the election was called Wednesday, molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright wrote on

Despite these calls, Fauci is highly unlikely to be prosecuted. President-elect Trump did not call for Fauci to be prosecuted himself.

Earlier this year, Fauci told CNN: “I don’t know what anyone could sue me for…I played a major role in the development of the vaccine that saved millions of lives…I am definitely guilty of this. »