Nicki Minaj predicts grim fate for Fauci after Senate hearing
by The Washington Times AI News Desk · The Washington TimesRapper Nicki Minaj unleashed a lengthy broadside against Dr. Anthony Fauci on X Friday, predicting the retired government scientist will one day require a feeding tube and lose his ability to speak, and that only then will he understand the suffering she says he caused during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The post came two days after Dr. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights rather than answer questions at a contentious hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Dr. Fauci told the panel that, given committee Chairman Rand Paul’s “unhinged obsession” with him, he feared his own words could be twisted into a criminal case, so he would decline to answer on his lawyers’ advice, according to a statement carried by STAT News.
Ms. Minaj, who has become a vocal supporter of President Trump, accused Dr. Fauci of inflicting lasting harm on newborns, schoolchildren, pregnant women barred from delivery rooms, and elderly patients who died alone during the pandemic. She also cited billions in taxpayer money she said was lost to “con artists” and said Americans’ trust in government may never fully recover, per the Irish Star.
“Feeding tubes will be his portion,” Ms. Minaj wrote on X. “He will lose the ability to speak & then & only then will he feel the collective pain & long term ramifications he caused to newborns.”
She closed the post on a softer note, writing that she’d struggled to find humor in the situation and offering blessings to those who made it through the pandemic.
Alongside the message, Ms. Minaj shared an apparently AI-generated image showing Dr. Fauci writing in a diary in what resembles a teenager’s bedroom — a nod to the private pandemic-era notes Mr. Paul released in the days before the hearing. The Kentucky Republican has argued the notes show Dr. Fauci privately doubted a Wuhan wet-market origin for the virus while publicly maintaining otherwise. But FactCheck.org found that characterization distorts the record: in the same January 2020 entry Mr. Paul cites, Dr. Fauci wrote that the market likely wasn’t the original source but added that “somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans” — consistent, the outlet noted, with statements he made publicly around the same time.
Friday’s post wasn’t the first time Dr. Fauci previously criticized Ms. Minaj’s vaccine claims. In September 2021, he said on CNN that the rapper “should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis”, after she told her millions of X followers that a cousin’s friend in her native Trinidad had become impotent following COVID-19 vaccination, a claim health officials in both the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago said had no supporting evidence, according to Forbes.
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