Dr. Fauci says his wife and children have been victims of ‘threats’

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family have been exposed to “violent and graphic sexual threats” since the COVID-19 pandemic, during which he spearheaded the federal government’s response.

Days after participating in a Congressional hearing on the US response to the disease, Fauci responded to those who called for his prosecution and imprisonment, and threatened him and his loved ones.

“You know, of course you always take threats that people take seriously, but I honestly don’t know what they are talking about,” he said on Thursday, June 20, on the broadcast of The view. “What are the charges? That you saved millions of lives with the vaccine you helped develop, or that you got people to do things that made them safer from a deadly pandemic that has killed 1.2 million people.”

“So if trying to save human lives is a crime, then I’m guilty,” Fauci, 83, said.

Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly four decades and advised seven presidents.

When asked by co-host Sunny Hostin if he is angry or scared about the threats he and his family have received, he described it as a case of “mixed emotions.”

“The point is, this is what I do, and it is what it is, and I wouldn’t do anything else. Of course, no one likes to be threatened – and I am threatened with real, credible threats. What infuriates me is the cowardice of people harassing my wife and children,” he said.

“You know, three young women who are harassed early in their professional lives because of violent and explicit sexual threats. That is unconscionable,” Fauci continued. “And is that a reflection of who we are in this country? What is that, I just don’t understand that.”

Fauci and his wife, Christine Grady, share three daughters.

Fauci talked about developing tough skin from his years in science and medicine while discussing his recently released memoir: On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Servicewith people.

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“I joke about it: That tough, pushy attitude in Brooklyn, where you focus on what your job is, and all that other stuff, no matter how unpleasant it is, is a distraction. What’s really important is your job. Saving lives, promoting public health and your family,” he said “Everything else is nonsense.”