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

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Independent: Markos Moulitsas

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…