‘F–k you, Dr. Fauci!’: Megyn Kelly tears into retiring doc over subpoena

Megyn Kelly unloaded on Dr. Anthony Fauci throughout her Wednesday podcast, utilizing a four-letter expletive whereas demanding that he abide by a congressional subpoena from Republican lawmakers if the GOP takes management of the Home of Representatives.

“F–ok you, Dr. Fauci,” the previous Fox Information primetime star stated throughout her most up-to-date broadcast of “The Megyn Kelly Present.“

Kelly took umbrage at feedback by Fauci indicating that he “actually would take into account” showing earlier than lawmakers if he's served with a subpoena.

“Good riddance, Dr. Fauci!” Kelly stated throughout Wednesday’s version of “The Megyn Kelly Present.”

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Dr. Anthony Fauci plans to retire later this 12 months. He has spent practically 4 a long time because the nation’s foremost infectious illness knowledgeable.

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The Republican Occasion is anticipated to retake the bulk within the Home after midterm elections this coming fall.

GOP lawmakers have vowed that they may demand the 81-year-old Fauci, who plans to retire this coming December as director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses after practically 4 a long time, seem to testify over his dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kelly urged Republicans to present Fauci “the Steve Bannon remedy” if the infectious illness knowledgeable refuses a congressional subpoena if and when the GOP takes management of the Home subsequent 12 months.

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Activists from PETA protesting outdoors the Division of Well being and Human Companies in Washington, D.C. after Fauci introduced his retirement on August 23, 2022.

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A PETA protester celebrating the retirement of Fauci.

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Throughout her opening monologue on Wednesday’s podcast, Kelly stated Republicans ought to give Fauci “the Steve Bannon remedy” if the epidemiologist refuses to adjust to a subpoena.

“He seems like he’s been invited to afternoon tea at one in all our homes,” Kelly stated on her podcast.

“‘I'll take into account it. I’ll take into account it,'” Kelly stated, mockingly paraphrasing Fauci. She then continued: “‘Provided that it’s oversight as a result of what I skilled was private assaults.'”

Kelly then broke character and stated: “F–ok you, Dr. Fauci!”

“You don’t get to say whether or not you go,” she continued. “You get a congressional subpoena, you present up, otherwise you get the Steve Bannon remedy.”

Bannon, a former White Home aide to then-President Donald Trump, was convicted final month of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to look earlier than the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on the US Capitol.

He faces a most sentence of two years in jail. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 21.

Republicans have blasted Fauci and different public well being officers for pandemic-era lockdown measures and different mitigation techniques that many imagine had been heavy-handed and extreme, together with obligatory masking, vaccine mandates, and prolonged college closures.