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Trump-Loving Pastor Rick Wiles Calls for Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘To be Taken to Guantanamo Bay and Waterboarded’

While Donald Trump was President, far-right TruNews broadcaster Rick Wiles was given press credentials, which he used to promote his virulent antisemitism and spread cockamamie conspiracy theories, including claiming the pandemic may have been “staged.

Now he’s back at it again, claiming on his program that Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, collaborated with “the Chinese Communist Party” to create the coronavirus that sparked the pandemic. Then he suggested Dr. Fauci should be tortured, Newsweek reports.

“You’re a liar!” Wiles said, aiming his remarks at Fauci. “You know what you did Fauci. You worked with the Chinese Communist Party for years and you used our own taxpayer money to work on a coronavirus with bats and you did it behind our backs, deceiving the American people and you participated in the creation of this virus.

Then he insisted:

“…I’ll say it again, Fauci, you should be taken to Guantanamo Bay and water-boarded until you cough up the truth–including the names of the other traitors who have helped China damage the United States of America with this virus.”

Later in the broadcast, he asserted “we’ve been sold out by traitors inside America.”

Fauci has continually offered blunt and straightforward assessments of the pandemic and that sticks in the craw of many a conservative who have attacked him relentlessly. During Trump’s presidency, Fauci repeatedly had to counter his continual misinformation and often bizarre claims. Which made Trump angry, of course, and his Republican supporters weren’t happy either.

Where Trump has left off, Wiles is filling in the gap with nonsense, which includes claims that Fauci somehow “weaponized” the virus. These ridiculous claims have been thoroughly and widely debunked.

Absurd commentary is more than habitual for Wiles. It’s a daily occurrence for him. In November, however, he went really out on a limb, even by his standards by claiming the Trump administration should “shoot” Democrats and journalists if it’s been discovered that they helped rig the election, as ex-President Trump continually and baselessly claimed at the time.

“The Democrats, the news media — if the leftists, if scientists, professors have been working secretly with the Chinese Communist Party,” Wiles claimed, “then line ’em up against the wall and shoot them. That’s what you do with them.”

I’ve been writing about Wiles for years now, but when Trump became President, nutters like him, “Coach Dave” Daubenmire, Jeff Jansen, and Paula White gained more prominence and certainly more attention. Now that Trump is no longer a prominent fixture in the news, let’s hope these people wind up in the trash heap of history where they belong.

Even so, I’m providing the clip from Right Wing Watch below, so you can see what I mean.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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