Elon Musk doubles down assaults on ‘creepy’ Dr Fauci regardless of backlash

Elon Musk has renewed his assaults on Anthony Fauci, labelling Joe Biden’s outgoing Covid czar “creepy”.

Mr Musk was reacting to a Twitter publish a few New York Instances profile on the eve of Dr Fauci’s retirement after greater than 5 many years on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.

Dr Fauci revealed he saved portraits from followers on the partitions of his house workplace, and informed the Instances he was reluctant to share the private perception after being beforehand attacked as an “egomaniac” by the far proper.

“Creepy,” Mr Musk wrote on Friday. “Perhaps he simply loves taking a look at science?” he added.

It’s the most recent in a sequence of private taunts the Twitter CEO has directed towards the 82-year-old infectious illness knowledgeable.

This week, Mr Musk tweeted: “New Twitter coverage is to comply with the science, which essentially contains reasoned questioning of the science”.

The publish was extensively interpreted to be a slur on Dr Fauci, and got here after Mr Musk had made a transphobic remark that his pronouns have been “prosecute/Fauci”.