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On Tuesday, in response to American Oversight’s public records lawsuit, the Arizona Senate released thousands of pages of records related to its partisan “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results. The document production comes on thecourt-ordered deadline of Aug. 31.
Included in the documents is information regarding audit payments as well as emails and text messages that audit officials and legislators exchanged with outside parties, including prominent Republicans, election conspiracy theorists and activists, members of Trump’s legal team, and others. American Oversight is still reviewing the contents of the records and will update this page with any additional findings. We are also still processing the documents, and will make them available on our website as soon as possible.
Prominent Republicans
According to an accompanying privilege log (which lists records that had been withheld because of legislative and other privileges), Senate President Karen Fann exchanged multiple texts with U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar in the spring regarding the investigation and its vendors. The new records also contain August emails between Fann and a member of Gosar’s staff regarding the release of the contractors’ final report. (Gosar appeared at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters seeking to prevent the certification of the election.)
Records previously obtained by American Oversight included an April 22 email from Bruce Ash, the former national committeeman of the Arizona Republican Party, to Tommy Hicks, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, in which Ash asked that the RNC help finance the defense against Democrats’ legal challenges to the “audit.” The latest records include more instances of audit allies attempting to get help from the national party: On July 17, audit spokesman Randy Pullen sent a text to Ash saying, “Need guns, lawyers, and money. Have any?”
The new records also indicate that Pullen was in touch with Reince Priebus, Trump’s first chief of staff and the former head of both the national and the Wisconsin Republican Party, as far back as December, before Pullen was officially involved in the “audit.” That month, Pullen texted Priebus to tell him about the potential for a “Forensic audit,” and in March asked Priebus for “suggestions on election audit firms.” (Priebus said he would check.) Another text from Pullen to Ash, sent on March 8, appears to reference Priebus: “I texted Reince and ask if he would like to help out on the audit,” Pullen said, then followed up to say they were speaking later that morning.
Conspiracy Theorists
The privilege log also indicates that top “audit” officials — including Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, Senate Liaison Ken Bennett, and spokesman Randy Pullen — exchanged a number of emails with Shiva Ayyadurai, an election conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist whose Twitter account was suspended back in February.
The records released by the Senate include a signed contract between Cyber Ninjas and a “Dr. Shiva,” a name Ayyadurai goes by among his followers. The contract is dated Aug. 3, 2021, and was sent to the United Liberty Coalition, a Phoenix-based group of supporters of former President Trump.
During a recent interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast, Reince Priebus reportedly said that the Wisconsin Assembly would be bringing in Ayyadurai to assist in its own partisan investigation of the 2020 election.
Another conspiracy theorist who appears in the Arizona Senate’s documents is Gail Golec, who has adopted the language of the QAnon conspiracy in her election-undermining activism. According to the records, Golec exchanged text messages with Senate President Karen Fann on Aug. 24 following the news that Logan and other members of the Cyber Ninjas team had contracted Covid-19. Golec recommended that Logan visit a site to purchase the livestock drug ivermectin. (Text messages indicate that upon hearing the news, Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward also told Fann that she hoped Logan had “gotten some Ivermectin and Zithromax.”) Golec also exchanged texts with Bennett in April, in which Golec said that the National Guard needed to be deployed to protect the audit from Black Lives Matter and antifa.
The records also appear to reference conspiracy theorist Bobby Piton, who according to records previously obtained by American Oversight had emailed Arizona legislators in December, calling for a vote recount. Those previous records also contain emails in which both Bennett and Pullen responded to outside inquiries by saying that they didn’t know who Piton was or whether he was involved.
The new records contain texts exchanged by Pullen and Liz Harris, a former Republican state legislative candidate who has been organizing direct canvassing operations that experts warn could amount to voter intimidation. On Dec. 16, Harris forwarded to Pullen a Dec. 16 text from “Bobby” requesting multiple decades’ worth of detailed voter information from all 15 counties in Arizona, not just Maricopa. Harris’s canvassing operations have recently been in the news again, with Harris denying any formal connections to the audit.
Trump Lawyers and Allies
In December, according to records previously obtained by American Oversight, One America News reporter Christina Bobb — who later began raising money for the “audit” — provided Fann with purported “evidence” of voter fraud, writing that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had “asked me to send you these declarations.” The newly released records include a group text from March 31 involving Fann and Bobb, with Giuliani also included, in which Fann passes along a document with a title that began “Pres. Fann audit hiring.”
Another Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, was also looped in on a number of communications, including an Aug. 2 email chain started by Scott Sigman, a Pennsylvania attorney who appears to be handling the issuing of checks related to the “audit.” Sigman emailed Mitchell, Logan, Pullen, and Thomas Datwyler (the treasurer of a group called the American Voting Rights Foundation) seeking signatures for payments.
Pullen also received a text on April 22 from Jeff DeWit, the former CFO of NASA who previously served as Arizona treasurer, in which DeWit said he was preparing to send $175,000 to Guardian Defense Fund, the organization set up as a legal defense fund for Gosar, state Rep. Mark Finchem, and former state Rep. Anthony Kern following their attendance at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. DeWit asked Pullen, who was the fund’s treasurer, where to send the money; Pullen responded that “200 would be better but take what I can get.”
The next week, DeWit asked Pullen about a group called Fund The Audit, which Pullen said was being funded by former Overstock CEO (and current election conspiracist) Patrick Byrne. DeWit asked whether the group was “ok to donate to,” adding, “Trump asking.” Pullen said yes, and that it had raised $1.2 million so far.
In May, Pullen asked whether DeWit was familiar with Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who had worked with Giuliani on Trump’s farfetched legal challenges to the election. And on July 19, Pullen asked DeWit to call him, saying that “arpaio has some information for 45” — likely a reference to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and further suggesting that DeWit was relaying messages to the former president.
Audit Costs
Audit Costs
The Senate originally provided $150,000 for the election “audit,” but in the months since the total cost ballooned to at least $6 million thanks to outside donations. Records included in Tuesday’s document production reveal how quickly the price tag rose: Among other payments, more than $400,000 went to private security contractor Law Enforcement Specialists, and the American Voting Rights Foundation sent $500,000 went to contractor CyFIR and $250,000 to StratTech Solutions. Another email from early August involving Sigman, Mitchell, and representatives of Wake Technology Services Inc., which left the operation in May, shows that AVRF wired $250,000 to Sigman to cover costs.
Other Records
Cyber Ninjas was hired by the state Senate in the spring, and questions remain about how the firm was selected, given its lack of election experience and previous statements by Logan in which he advanced conspiracy theories about voting machines. The privilege log indicates that communication between Logan and Fann began as early as Feb. 5, and texts released by the Senate on Tuesday include one from March 17 between Fann and a lobbyist who refers to “Doug.”
The newly released records also reveal that the deference to conspiracy theories and false allegations of voter fraud evident in Fann’s post-election communications has continued into recent months: On Aug. 23, Fann forwarded to Bennett, Pullen, and Logan an article about a report on missing Wisconsin ballots.
Finally, the new records also suggest that audit officials were in touch with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who was hired to run the bogus election investigation initiated by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. On Aug. 7, Pullen texted a “Justice Michael G” with “Three big political points.” In response, the recipient wrote, “these are helpful fundings [sic].” The week before, Christina Bobb had asked Fann if she could share her contact information with Gableman; Fann replied, “Absolutely of course.”
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V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai (born Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva[1] on December 2, 1963) is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and anti-vaccine activist. He has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims.[2] Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including a PhD in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient.[3]
In a 2011 article published by Time,[4] Ayyadurai claimed to have invented email as a teenager; in August 1982, he registered the copyright on an email application he had written, asserting in his copyright filing, "I, personally, feel EMAIL is as sophisticated as any electronic mail system on the market today."[5] Historians strongly dispute this account because email was already in use in the early 1970s. Ayyadurai sued Gawker Media and Techdirt for defamation for disputing his account of inventing email; both lawsuits were settled out of court. Ayyadurai and Techdirt agreed to Techdirt's articles remaining online with a link to Ayyadurai's rebuttal on his own website.[6]
Ayyadurai also attracted attention for two reports: the first questioning the working conditions of India's largest scientific agency; the second questioning the safety of genetically modified food, such as soybeans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ayyadurai became known for a social media COVID-19 disinformation campaign, spreading conspiracy theories about the cause of COVID-19, promoting unfounded COVID-19 treatments, and campaigning to fire Anthony Fauci for allegedly being a deep state actor.
Ayyadurai garnered 3.39% of the vote as an independent candidate in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, and ran for the Republican Party nomination in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts but lost to Kevin O'Connor in the primary.[7] After the election, he promoted false claims of election fraud.[8]
In 2024, Ayyadurai launched a campaign for president of the United States.[9] However, because he is not a natural-born American citizen, he is ineligible to serve as president.
Early life and education
Shiva Ayyadurai was born Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva in 1963, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.[1][10][11] He grew up in the Muhavur village in Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu.[12][13] At the age of seven, he left with his family to live in the United States.[14] He was raised in Livingston, New Jersey.[15]
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Political career
On March 17, 2017, Ayyadurai filed as a Republican candidate in the 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, running against incumbent Elizabeth Warren.[33][34] He ran as an independent and placed third with 3.4% of the votes.[35][36]
Ayyadurai said that Senator Warren was at the top of a U.S. "neo–caste system" composed of "academics, career politicians and lawyer/lobbyists", a "spineless clan" who never expect to be challenged. He said he would take a science and engineering perspective on problem solving, focusing on immigration, education and innovation. He called for secure borders and an end to sanctuary cities, support for more choices in public education, and for more scrutiny of "pay-to-play" science research.[37] Ayyadurai has accused Warren of voting in favor of the Farmer Assurance Provision and against a GM labeling bill sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.[38] However, the Act was reportedly passed to avoid a government shutdown,[39] and Warren petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for "regulations to ensure that the labeling of GMO products is fair, standardized and transparent".[40]
In August 2017, Ayyadurai spoke at the Boston Free Speech rally, a gathering whose speaker line-up included right-wing extremists, and which drew large counter-protests.[41][42] Ayyadurai later disputed how the event was characterized, tweeting that the "establishment" wanted to block attendance and media coverage and sought a "Race War to divide us".[43][44] In April 2018, the city of Cambridge threatened Ayyadurai with daily fines for an alleged zoning code violation if he did not remove a banner on his campaign bus. The banner featured his campaign slogan, "Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian", together with a digitally altered image depicting Warren in a Native American headdress, a reference to her claim to be of part Cherokee descent.[45] The city reversed its position the following month and Ayyadurai, in turn, dropped a lawsuit alleging that his free speech rights had been violated.[46]
During the campaign, Ayyadurai appeared on a livestream with Matthew Colligan, a white supremacist known for his participation in the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Colligan requested that Ayyadurai bless a small statue of Kek, the green frog that came to prominence as a symbol of the alt-right during the 2016 United States presidential election. Ayyadurai obliged and described Colligan as "one of our greatest supporters".[47][48][49] Ayyadurai also sold pins promoting his campaign that featured a brown-skinned variant of the "Groyper", the namesake and mascot for white nationalist group Groypers which Colligan is affiliated with.[50] Ayyadurai also tweeted on one occasion (and separately retweeted another tweet including) the hashtag "#WWG1WGA", a slogan associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory.[51][52]
Ayyadurai ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.[53][54] By August 2020, Ayyadurai's campaign had spent $1.4 million, including $1.05 million of Ayyadurai's own funds.[55] After Kevin J. O'Conner won 158,590 votes to Ayyadurai's 104,782, Ayyadurai alleged that over one million ballots had been destroyed and that the state had committed election fraud. He alleged that ballot images had to be preserved for 22 months and were now missing. However, MIT political science professor Charles Stewart stated that federal law only requires that physical ballots be stored. Harvard law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos disputed Ayyadurai's allegation of fraud and a spokesperson for the state accused him of spreading misinformation. Fact checkers at Reuters and the Associated Press labelled the allegations as false.[56][8]
On February 1, 2021, Ayyadurai was suspended from Twitter.[57] On February 3, he filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts politician William Galvin and other Massachusetts election officials, alleging that they were responsible for Twitter's suspending him. On August 10, Ayyadurai dropped the lawsuit[58][59][60] along with an October 2020 suit against Galvin.[61][62]
Mike Lindell introduces Ayyadurai at Lindell's "Cyber Symposium"
He announced a run for the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election in December 2021, but never filed for the primary.[63]
He intended to run in the 2024 United States presidential election as an independent.[64][65] Ayyadurai, who is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president and was excluded from ballots.[66] He simultaneously intended to run to be a US Senator from Massachusetts[67][68] but was not on the ballot.[69]
On January 27, 2026, Ayyadurai again filed to run in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.[70] He filed to run for president in the 2028 U.S. presidential election three days later.[71]
COVID-19 misinformation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ayyadurai used social media to spread various conspiracy theories and misinformation about the pandemic. In January 2020, he claimed that COVID-19 was patented by the Pirbright Institute, but the patent he referenced relates to avian coronavirus, which infects birds, not SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic.[72] Ayyadurai defined COVID-19 as "an overactive dysfunctional immune system that overreacts and that's what causes damage to the body", and claimed that vitamin C could be used to treat it.[73]
He alleged that COVID-19 was spread by the "deep state" and accused Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of being a "Deep State Plant". Ayyadurai called for Fauci to be fired[74] and his supporters lobbied for Fauci to be replaced by Ayyadurai.[75]
In March 2020, Ayyadurai published an open letter to then-U.S. President Donald Trump, writing that a national lockdown was unnecessary and advocated that large doses of vitamins could prevent and cure COVID-19.[76] In April 2020, Politico and Vanity Fair reported that QAnon supporter DeAnna Lorraine recommended that Ayyadurai be included in COVID-19 discussions at Donald Trump's White House.[77][78]
Election misinformation
Ayyadurai has continued to spread misinformation since about the 2020 presidential election. At Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium in August 2021, he claimed there were "serious issues" in the election process involving voting machines able to "multiply a vote by a factor" and that states were illegally not "saving ballot images".[79] In fact, not all states are legally required to store ballot images.[80] In August 2021, he was hired by the Arizona Senate—as part of the controversial 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit—to "review signatures on the envelopes of 1.9 million early ballots sent to [Maricopa] county".[81] In late September, he remotely attended the Arizona state senate presentation of the review's findings where he questioned the validity of some signatures on mail ballot envelopes, and criticized and gave a presentation filled with misrepresentations about the county's signature verification process.[82][83]
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https://crooksandliars.com/2021/09/newly-released-documents-show-az-fraudit
it is not like we didn’t already know that the so-called audit is a fraudit. But the American Oversight group has recently obtained thousands of pages of records related to the “audit” as the result of a public records lawsuit.
American Oversight is still reviewing the records. VICE News notes that the trove includes communications that suggest Donald Trump wanted to fund it and that his allies were involved from the start.
one prominent Trump ally who turns up in the documents is Trump’s former chief of staff and former RNC chair Reince Priebus. American Oversight found that audit spokesman Randy Pullen texted Priebus in December, before Pullen was officially involved in the audit.
That month, Pullen texted Priebus to tell him about the potential for a “Forensic audit,” and in March asked Priebus for “suggestions on election audit firms.” (Priebus said he would check.) Another text from Pullen to [AZ Republican Committee’s Bruce] Ash, sent on March 8, appears to reference Priebus: “I texted Reince and ask if he would like to help out on the audit,” Pullen said, then followed up to say they were speaking later that morning.
Trump lawyers also show up in the documents. They communicated with with OAN “reporter” Christina Bobb, who helped launch the fraudit, helped fund it and was given special access to its proceedings. More from American Oversight:
In December, according to records previously obtained by American Oversight, One America News reporter Christina Bobb — who later began raising money for the “audit” — provided Fann [Arizona's Senate president] with purported “evidence” of voter fraud, writing that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had “asked me to send you these declarations.” The newly released records include a group text from March 31 involving Fann and Bobb, with Giuliani also included, in which Fann passes along a document with a title that began “Pres. Fann audit hiring.”
Another Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, was also looped in on a number of communications, including an Aug. 2 email chain started by Scott Sigman, a Pennsylvania attorney who appears to be handling the issuing of checks related to the “audit.” Sigman emailed Mitchell, Logan, Pullen, and Thomas Datwyler (the treasurer of a group called the American Voting Rights Foundation) seeking signatures for payments.
Then there is Shiva Ayyadurai, aka “Dr. Shiva,” an anti-vaxxer, pro-Trumper who dubiously claims he invented email and has falsely accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of being hellbent on forced and mandatory vaccines. American Oversight reported that its newly-obtained documents include a signed contract between Cyber Ninjas, the unqualified firm conducting the audit, and Ayyadurai.
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Priebus plans to bring Dr. Shiva to Wisconsin for its "investigation":
Last month, Priebus reportedly said during an interview that the Wisconsin investigation would be bringing in “Dr. Shiva.” https://t.co/232ivCy3ol
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) September 1, 2021
Some of the frauditors made some darned good money, too!
Some of the positions paid up to $125/hour. pic.twitter.com/RPY7XYpymB
— TRAPEZOID OF DISCOVERY (@get_innocuous) September 1, 2021
There’s still plenty left to be discovered. VICE notes that 2,500 of the Arizona Senate’s most sensitive documents, including almost all direct communications with Cyber Ninjas and CEO Doug Logan, have been withheld as privileged. Meanwhile, you can dive into the documents already released here.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/anthony-fauci-security-detail/index.html
dr Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic and a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, is facing threats to his personal safety and now requires personal security from law enforcement at all times, including at his home, a source confirms to CNN.
A law enforcement official told CNN that the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General, the agency's law enforcement arm, asked the US Marshals Service for assistance following threats to Fauci. The Marshals then deputized HHS officers to act as personal security for the doctor.
The Washington Post first reportedthe threats to Fauci and the increased security.
A source also confirmed to CNN last week the presence of several members of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department stationed at all times around Fauci's home in the district. The source added the stepped up visible police presence was a response to growing threats to Fauci's safety, though the source of the threats was not identified....
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After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
Dr. Fauci has become a target of online conspiracy theorists after advocating social distancing rules.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, 79, is a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, 79, is a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Katie BennerMichael D. Shear
By Katie Benner and Michael D. Shear
April 1, 2020
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, who has become a regular at President Trump’s coronavirus briefings, will receive enhanced personal security after receiving threats following his repeated pleas for Americans to help slow the spread of the deadly pandemic, officials said on Wednesday.
Dr. Fauci has been the Trump administration’s most outspoken advocate of social distancing rules that have shuttered the nation’s schools, forced businesses to close, kept people in their homes and battered the United States economy.
That has made him a target of online conspiracy theorists who have accused Dr. Fauci, a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties, of trying to undermine Mr. Trump during a year in which the president is fighting for re-election.
The Department of Health and Human Services granted the enhanced personal security for Dr. Fauci, 79, after the Justice Department signed off on a request for extra agents to guard him, officials said. Alex M. Azar II, the health and human services secretary, had grown worried that the threats against the doctor were increasing as more of the country shut down in response to the coronavirus.
“Yesterday, upon the recommendation of the U.S. Marshals Service, the department approved the special deputization request from H.H.S. for nine H.H.S.-O.I.G. special agents to provide protective services for Dr. Fauci,” the Justice Department said in a statement, referring to the Office of the Inspector General at the health department. The Washington Post first reported the news of the enhanced security.
Caitlin Oakley, a spokeswoman for the health department, would not confirm Dr. Fauci’s enhanced security but called him “an integral part of the U.S. government’s response against Covid-19,” referring to the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“Among other efforts,” she added, “he is leading the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and he regularly appears at White House press briefings and media interviews.”
The coronavirus could kill 100,000 to more than 200,000 Americans in the coming weeks. Dr. Fauci, along with a fellow task force member, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, encouraged Mr. Trump to extend the amount of time that the country would remain shuttered through the end of this month. Some states, like Virginia, have issued stay-at-home orders that do not expire until further into the spring.
The idea that Dr. Fauci is responsible for the country’s hardship — and for whatever political damage Mr. Trump might suffer as a result — was fueled in part by a moment during a news briefing in which Dr. Fauci dropped his head and touched his forehead as the president was speaking. The image went viral online and right-wing supporters of Mr. Trump cited it as evidence that Dr. Fauci sought to undercut the president.
One anti-Fauci Twitter post last week said, “Sorry liberals but we don’t trust Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The hashtag #FauciFraud has been used by more than 70 Twitter accounts, some posting hundreds of times a day, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Criticism of Dr. Fauci has also come from leading conservative voices and supporters of Mr. Trump, including Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, the host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email.
But Mr. Trump himself has praised the doctor. During Wednesday’s briefing, when a reporter asked about Dr. Fauci’s personal security, the president said: “He doesn’t need security. Everybody loves him.”
In fact, Dr. Fauci has earned plaudits from many medical experts and public health officials for his often grim assessment of the threats facing the United States from the coronavirus — even sometimes contradicting the president’s rosier outlook.
For weeks, Dr. Fauci’s remarks on television and at the White House stood in sharp contrast to the commentary from Mr. Trump’s fiercest supporters on Fox News, whose leading hosts repeatedly claimed that Democrats, the news media and public health experts were inflating the threat of the virus.
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After the viral video of Dr. Fauci lowering his head, online attacks against him increased. A seven-year-old email that he wrote to an aide of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s was posted online by The American Thinker, a conservative blog. In the email, Dr. Fauci praised Mrs. Clinton for her stamina during hearings into the 2012 attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya. The blog suggested falsely that the email proved that Dr. Fauci was part of a secret group who opposed Mr. Trump.
Ironically, in the past several days, the president has largely adopted Dr. Fauci’s more dire warnings about the dangers of the rapidly spreading virus. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump called it a “great national trial unlike any we have ever faced before” and echoed Dr. Fauci’s language about the need to minimize its spread.
“It’s a matter of life and death, frankly,” Mr. Trump said, offering a sober assessment of the pandemic’s effect. “It’s a matter of life and death.”
The Daily Poster
Listen to ‘The Daily’: A Conversation With Dr. Anthony Fauci
“We are in a war. I mean, I actually think this is exactly what generals or leaders in real, you know, violent combat wars feel.”
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After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
Dr. Fauci has become a target of online conspiracy theorists after advocating social distancing rules.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, 79, is a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, 79, is a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Katie BennerMichael D. Shear
By Katie Benner and Michael D. Shear
April 1, 2020
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, who has become a regular at President Trump’s coronavirus briefings, will receive enhanced personal security after receiving threats following his repeated pleas for Americans to help slow the spread of the deadly pandemic, officials said on Wednesday.
Dr. Fauci has been the Trump administration’s most outspoken advocate of social distancing rules that have shuttered the nation’s schools, forced businesses to close, kept people in their homes and battered the United States economy.
That has made him a target of online conspiracy theorists who have accused Dr. Fauci, a longtime scientist and civil servant who has served presidents of both parties, of trying to undermine Mr. Trump during a year in which the president is fighting for re-election.
The Department of Health and Human Services granted the enhanced personal security for Dr. Fauci, 79, after the Justice Department signed off on a request for extra agents to guard him, officials said. Alex M. Azar II, the health and human services secretary, had grown worried that the threats against the doctor were increasing as more of the country shut down in response to the coronavirus.
“Yesterday, upon the recommendation of the U.S. Marshals Service, the department approved the special deputization request from H.H.S. for nine H.H.S.-O.I.G. special agents to provide protective services for Dr. Fauci,” the Justice Department said in a statement, referring to the Office of the Inspector General at the health department. The Washington Post first reported the news of the enhanced security.
Caitlin Oakley, a spokeswoman for the health department, would not confirm Dr. Fauci’s enhanced security but called him “an integral part of the U.S. government’s response against Covid-19,” referring to the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“Among other efforts,” she added, “he is leading the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and he regularly appears at White House press briefings and media interviews.”
The coronavirus could kill 100,000 to more than 200,000 Americans in the coming weeks. Dr. Fauci, along with a fellow task force member, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, encouraged Mr. Trump to extend the amount of time that the country would remain shuttered through the end of this month. Some states, like Virginia, have issued stay-at-home orders that do not expire until further into the spring.
The idea that Dr. Fauci is responsible for the country’s hardship — and for whatever political damage Mr. Trump might suffer as a result — was fueled in part by a moment during a news briefing in which Dr. Fauci dropped his head and touched his forehead as the president was speaking. The image went viral online and right-wing supporters of Mr. Trump cited it as evidence that Dr. Fauci sought to undercut the president.
One anti-Fauci Twitter post last week said, “Sorry liberals but we don’t trust Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The hashtag #FauciFraud has been used by more than 70 Twitter accounts, some posting hundreds of times a day, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Criticism of Dr. Fauci has also come from leading conservative voices and supporters of Mr. Trump, including Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, the host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email.
But Mr. Trump himself has praised the doctor. During Wednesday’s briefing, when a reporter asked about Dr. Fauci’s personal security, the president said: “He doesn’t need security. Everybody loves him.”
In fact, Dr. Fauci has earned plaudits from many medical experts and public health officials for his often grim assessment of the threats facing the United States from the coronavirus — even sometimes contradicting the president’s rosier outlook.
For weeks, Dr. Fauci’s remarks on television and at the White House stood in sharp contrast to the commentary from Mr. Trump’s fiercest supporters on Fox News, whose leading hosts repeatedly claimed that Democrats, the news media and public health experts were inflating the threat of the virus.
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After the viral video of Dr. Fauci lowering his head, online attacks against him increased. A seven-year-old email that he wrote to an aide of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s was posted online by The American Thinker, a conservative blog. In the email, Dr. Fauci praised Mrs. Clinton for her stamina during hearings into the 2012 attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya. The blog suggested falsely that the email proved that Dr. Fauci was part of a secret group who opposed Mr. Trump.
Ironically, in the past several days, the president has largely adopted Dr. Fauci’s more dire warnings about the dangers of the rapidly spreading virus. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump called it a “great national trial unlike any we have ever faced before” and echoed Dr. Fauci’s language about the need to minimize its spread.
“It’s a matter of life and death, frankly,” Mr. Trump said, offering a sober assessment of the pandemic’s effect. “It’s a matter of life and death.”
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Listen to ‘The Daily’: A Conversation With Dr. Anthony Fauci
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8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (17)
#8645334 at 2020-04-01 07:50:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11070: Flynn For The Win Edition
Global Announcements
>>8607610 Q Tripcode map, showing continuity of authorship - Need anons to verify for dough entry
>>8579854, >>8580159 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
>>8363658 Iwo Jima flag on YouTube for TOR posting
>Baker PSA: In light of recent flurry of global activity, anons are encouraged to archive offline
Notables
are not endorsements
#11069
>>8645242 'Twiggy' Forrest's $160m China deal to bring lifesaving supplies to Australia
>>8645112 The federal judge who holds the key to secret records concerning the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein refused Tuesday afternoon to approve a monthlong delay in the case.
>>8644964 Rupert Murdoch's Australian flagship media group News Corp announces it will stop printing around 60 regional newspapers
>>8644922 US secretary of energy holds telephone talks with Russian energy minister
>>8644863 British national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary release from prison extended
>>8644838, >>8644891, >>8644936 Conference call with Service Members and Families with @POTUS on April 1st, 14:30 EDT re: COVID-19
>>8644797, >>8644882, >>8644892, >>8645184 2yr Delta's coming up?/altimeter, not clock
>>8644799, >>8644747 U.S. States and the China Competition: Secretary Pompeo's Remarks to the NGA
>>8644786 "Alexa, did the government release the coronavirus?" vid for the Keks
>>8644773 Doug Bosco diggz
>>8645304 #11069
#11068
>>8643915 Dr Shiva Ayyadurai letter explaining what vitamins and minerals will cure COVID
>>8643929 Barr Announces the Appointment of Peter McCoy as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of S.C.
>>8643934 The Chinese Communist Party v America
>>8643968 POTUS Warned America about China VIrus In Speech Pelosi Tore Up (vid embed)
Baker Change
>>8644034 March 2020 Happening Calendar (with February and January)
>>8644147 John Solomon - List: Celebrities and politicians who have contracted coronavirus
>>8644153 'The surge is coming': Trump warns of 'very painful two weeks'
>>8644229 POTUS tweet SAFE VEHICLES RULE = SVR = Severe Thunderstorm Warning?
>>8644282 Prankster arrested on terrorism charges - Claims of COVID
>>8644420 EXCLUSIVE: As Coronavirus Crippled Small Businesses, Some Lenders Pounced
>>8644573 #11068
#11067
>>8643147 "Free child care" suddenly popping up nationwide
>>8643135 Youtuber crosses through FL/GA Checkpoint Backdoor?
>>8643164 Marriott Got Hacked. Yes, Again
>>8643175 Proclamation on National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2020
>>8643292, >>8643304, >>8643328, >>8643395, >>8643660 PF Reports - Watching HELOS in Baltimore
>>8643319 Japan business sentiment plunges to 7-year low
>>8643322 Seismic Fagging
>>8643329, >>8643601,>>8643725 Rikers Island Prisoners Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves
>>8643323, >>8643392, >>8643442 Timeline of the Corona Virus False FlagGraphic w/Pasta
>>8643657 Dr Shiva Ayyadurai sent POTUS a letter telling him Fauci is full of shit.
>>8643798 #11067
#11066 New baker
>>8642467 Zoom accused in lawsuit of improperly sharing user data with Facebook
>>8642376 Social Distancing - faucci puts his arm around Birx (vid embed)
>>8642408 POTUS - Very Painful Two Weeks (vid embed)
>>8642471 US tells Guaido he may renounce his Venezuela 'presidency' claim
>>8642512 Idaho Earthquake update; Swarm of After-shocks
>>8642549, >>8642723 Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Nuke research?
>>8642981, >>8643004 Oakley, Idaho Digg - Wackenhut of the Illuminati
>>8642527, >>8642544 Syria Update
>>8642537 During the task force today when pence was speaking the flag fell (vid embed)
>>8642539 POTUS Schedule for WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2020
>>8642705 Dr. Birx Clinton Connections
>>8642785, >>8642794 Planefag Reports - NINJA64, PAT0003
>>8642550, >>8642766, >>8642818 Capt. Crozier, Theodore Roosevelt China Virus ship captain, diggs
>>8642403 BF Report: Update on USNS Watkins (T-AKR-315)
>>8642816 Snowden: Coronavirus pandemic could lead to extended government surveillance
>>8642874 Anon just saved the entire Qmap website on computer. Links to how to.
>>8643043 #11066
Previously Collected Notables
>>8642072 #11065, >>8643043 #11066
>>8639248 #11061, >>8640010 #11062, >>8640774 #11063, >>8641549 #11064
>>8636077 #11057, >>8636891 #11058, >>8637722 #11059, >>8638464 #11060
>>8633009 #11053, >>8633841 #11054, >>8634643 #11055, >>8635359 #11056
Notables Thread #1, #8960-present: >>7003045
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com (new)
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740#6384), https://8kun.top
#8644592 at 2020-04-01 06:23:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11069: The Entire World Is Watching Edition
Global Announcements
>>8607610 Q Tripcode map, showing continuity of authorship - Need anons to verify for dough entry
>>8579854, >>8580159 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
>>8363658 Iwo Jima flag on YouTube for TOR posting
>Baker PSA: In light of recent flurry of global activity, anons are encouraged to archive offline
Notables
are not endorsements
#11068
>>8643915 Dr Shiva Ayyadurai letter explaining what vitamins and minerals will cure COVID
>>8643929 Barr Announces the Appointment of Peter McCoy as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of S.C.
>>8643934 The Chinese Communist Party v America
>>8643968 POTUS Warned America about China VIrus In Speech Pelosi Tore Up (vid embed)
Baker Change
>>8644034 March 2020 Happening Calendar (with February and January)
>>8644147 John Solomon - List: Celebrities and politicians who have contracted coronavirus
>>8644153 'The surge is coming': Trump warns of 'very painful two weeks'
>>8644229 POTUS tweet SAFE VEHICLES RULE = SVR = Severe Thunderstorm Warning?
>>8644282 Prankster arrested on terrorism charges - Claims of COVID
>>8644420 EXCLUSIVE: As Coronavirus Crippled Small Businesses, Some Lenders Pounced
>>8644573 #11068
#11067
>>8643147 "Free child care" suddenly popping up nationwide
>>8643135 Youtuber crosses through FL/GA Checkpoint Backdoor?
>>8643164 Marriott Got Hacked. Yes, Again
>>8643175 Proclamation on National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2020
>>8643292, >>8643304, >>8643328, >>8643395, >>8643660 PF Reports - Watching HELOS in Baltimore
>>8643319 Japan business sentiment plunges to 7-year low
>>8643322 Seismic Fagging
>>8643329, >>8643601,>>8643725 Rikers Island Prisoners Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves
>>8643323, >>8643392, >>8643442 Timeline of the Corona Virus False FlagGraphic w/Pasta
>>8643657 Dr Shiva Ayyadurai sent POTUS a letter telling him Fauci is full of shit.
>>8643798 #11067
#11066 New baker
>>8642467 Zoom accused in lawsuit of improperly sharing user data with Facebook
>>8642376 Social Distancing - faucci puts his arm around Birx (vid embed)
>>8642408 POTUS - Very Painful Two Weeks (vid embed)
>>8642471 US tells Guaido he may renounce his Venezuela 'presidency' claim
>>8642512 Idaho Earthquake update; Swarm of After-shocks
>>8642549, >>8642723 Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Nuke research?
>>8642981, >>8643004 Oakley, Idaho Digg - Wackenhut of the Illuminati
>>8642527, >>8642544 Syria Update
>>8642537 During the task force today when pence was speaking the flag fell (vid embed)
>>8642539 POTUS Schedule for WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2020
>>8642705 Dr. Birx Clinton Connections
>>8642785, >>8642794 Planefag Reports - NINJA64, PAT0003
>>8642550, >>8642766, >>8642818 Capt. Crozier, Theodore Roosevelt China Virus ship captain, diggs
>>8642403 BF Report: Update on USNS Watkins (T-AKR-315)
>>8642816 Snowden: Coronavirus pandemic could lead to extended government surveillance
>>8642874 Anon just saved the entire Qmap website on computer. Links to how to.
>>8643043 #11066
Previously Collected Notables
>>8642072 #11065
>>8639248 #11061, >>8640010 #11062, >>8640774 #11063, >>8641549 #11064
>>8636077 #11057, >>8636891 #11058, >>8637722 #11059, >>8638464 #11060
>>8633009 #11053, >>8633841 #11054, >>8634643 #11055, >>8635359 #11056
Notables Thread #1, #8960-present: >>7003045
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com (new)
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740#6384), https://8kun.top
#8643838 at 2020-04-01 05:16:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11068: Scarf Shift Edition
Global Announcements...
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