Anthony Fauci is taking a page out of Hillary Clinton’s playbook and he just won’t go away. He was interviewed on The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC.

St. Anthony blames Governor Ron DeSantis’s criticisms of him as a reason he needs security guards now. On the Hasan show Fauci pointed to a remark DeSantis made to supporters in a past speech. DeSantis said someone should “grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.” C’mon. That’s not inciting violence, it’s a thought I’d be willing to bet most of us have had as we’ve listened to him.

“He's triggering people who are bad and really want to hurt people.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ public trolling call for someone to “grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.” pic.twitter.com/qEJVFWJ9LA

— The Mehdi Hasan Show (@MehdiHasanShow) September 21, 2023

You can see Fauci is chuckling as Hasan repeats the comment from DeSantis. Fauci knows it is just his latest con. Now he wants to blame conservatives, especially conservative candidates running for president, for any whackos who may be out there. Calling Fauci a little elf is one of the tamer ways I have heard Fauci described.

Fauci is a legend in his own mind. Democrats were happy to go along with him and make him a celebrity. Now he wants to be thought of as a hero who saved millions of people. He says he is criticized by people who don’t know what he’s done and “far-right” people who are angry that Fauci has criticized Trump. We know what he’s done and that is why he is criticized. He was in the thick of things as he funded China’s lab that released the deadly pandemic. He has been proven to be consistently wrong on many of his decisions. Spare me the victim routine now. He’s a career government employee who does not think he should be held accountable.

Of course, Hasan wanted to say that it sounded like DeSantis was inciting violence. Progressives are delicate creatures until they start blasting conservatives. Then it’s anything goes.

Hasan asked Fauci if he considered DeSantis’ comment a threat and suggested the 2024 Republican presidential candidate had incited violence.

Fauci acknowledged he’d become a symbol of hate for the right after he publicly disagreed with then-President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the decadeslong director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci drew blowback from conservatives for recommending masking, social distancing and lockdowns during the public health crisis that claimed the lives of more than 1.1 million Americans.

“Gov. DeSantis doesn’t personally want to hurt me, but he’s triggering people who are bad and really want to hurt people, that’s the problem,” said Fauci.

Here’s the thing – Fauci and his wife are fabulously wealthy after he spent a lifetime in public service. The highest paid government employee and his wife hold $11.5 million in assets, mostly from Fauci.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) termination report obtained by Fox News showed Fauci, 81, and Grady holding $11.5 million in assets — with Fauci responsible for the majority of those.

The wealth expansion came from mutual fund investments, awards, federal compensation increases, and royalties, the outlet reported, though Fauci has said he donates all of his royalties to charity.

Fauci and Grady, who serves as the chief bioethicist at NIH, also saw their net worth decline by $1.1 million in 2022 from the previous year.

He and his wife grew their personal wealth while Fauci’s recommendations were followed by Trump and Biden. The country shut down and the lives of people were forever changed. Small businesses failed, people could not hold funerals or weddings, family couldn’t visit loved ones in hospitals, schools closed, people were confined to their homes. Mask mandates and social distancing were proven to be ineffective, as was the effectiveness of the vaccines.

The taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks.com found that Fauci and Grady increased their net worth by $5M between January 2019 and December 2021.

It’s Fauci’s huge ego and ignorance that is so hard to take. His claim to fame that he saved millions during the AIDS epidemic, though he didn’t find a vaccine for that or a cure, and now his claims of success with COVID-19 are rightly challenged.

You must respect his authority, you see. He boasted about saving “literally, millions of lives” as Hasan helped to rehab Fauci’s reputation. There is a little re-writing of history going on.

At one point, Fauci also took a page out of former President Bill Clinton’s playbook on parsing definitions as he aimed to “clarify” his past statements about funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology by arguing over what the books officially referred to as gain of function research. A similar tactic had been used in an update on the definition of “vaccine” to justify the promoted narrative on the COVID jabs that neither prevented transmission of the virus nor protected against symptoms.

Nice try but for most of the country, it won’t work. When the Biden administration tries to shut down the country again as a new variant of COVID-19 hits, the difference in the reaction of Americans will be huge. Mandates won’t be accepted any more. The memory of government control of our lives during the pandemic won’t be forgotten.