[Opinion] Republicans are trying to break Dr. Anthony Fauci, because they can't get him to join them in lies

Republicans are trying to break Dr. Anthony Fauci, because they can't get him to join them in lies

For weeks, right-wing media—and all too often the media in general—has been reporting “mounting evidence” in favor of the idea that the virus behind COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Republicans have been seizing on this supposed evidence not just as a means of inexplicably “redeeming” Donald Trump (because somehow saying “China virus” enough times means that Trump’s actions didn’t kill 900,000 Americans), but also for the purposes of…