'These morons. They did the worst job imaginable': Donald Trump Jr rips Dr Fauci and New York governor Cuomo for their handling of Covid in wake of email release and scandals

 Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter on Thursday to blast New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over their handling of the Covid pandemic and their 'insane amount of hubris and arrogance'.

The son of former President Trump hit out at the pair they were engulfed in a string of scandals - the latest the leak of emails which appear to show Dr Fauci was made aware that the virus could have been engineered in a lab. 

'These morons really see themselves as heroes when in their respective positions anyone could credibly argue they did the worst job imaginable,' he tweeted. 'Cuomo #49 or 50 out of 50 and Fauci... well the emails speak for themselves. Insane amount of hubris and arrogance!' 


Don Jr linked to a December 2020 exchange between Fauci and Cuomo where the pair congratulated each other for their successes during the pandemic, and compared themselves to the actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter Thursday to blast Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci for their 'insane amount of hubris and arrogance' despite controversies that have embroiled the two.

Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter Thursday to blast Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci for their 'insane amount of hubris and arrogance' despite controversies that have embroiled the two.

'We're like the modern-day De Niro and Pacino,' Cuomo tells Fauci
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'We're like the modern day De Niro or Pacino you can be whichever you want, you can be the De Niro or Pacino, whichever you want. Fauci and Cuomo,' Cuomo said. 'Who do you want to be De Niro or Pacino?'

'I love them both,' Fauci replied. 'I love them both I don't want to insult one or the other.'

The two are facing their own respective scandals, with the former president's supporters pouncing on an an email dump Tuesday of the disease expert's correspondence that they say proves he downplayed theories that the coronavirus was manmade and emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. 

Donald Trump Jr. says both Cuomo and Fauci have done a terrible job in their respective roles during the pandemic. He is pictured speaking to supporters of his father in 2019

Donald Trump Jr. says both Cuomo and Fauci have done a terrible job in their respective roles during the pandemic. He is pictured speaking to supporters of his father in 2019

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is about 20 miles from the Huanan Seafood Market where the first coronavirus cases are reported to have occurred

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is about 20 miles from the Huanan Seafood Market where the first coronavirus cases are reported to have occurred. Fauci's critics say a recent email dump proves he publicly downplayed theories that the virus was manmade and emerged from the institute


Cuomo is also facing accusations that his administration covered up the true count of nursing home deaths early in the pandemic as well as multiple sexual harassment allegations and calls for him to step down.  


On Tuesday a trove of 3,200 of Fauci's emails from January to June 2020 were obtained and published by Buzzfeed  that showed leading virus experts warned him Covid-19 may have been created in a lab while he publicly played such claims down.       

He has defended himself, saying said his emails have been 'taken out of context' but he 'can't guarantee everything that is going on in the Wuhan lab'.   

Speaking with MSNBC's Deadline on Wednesday Fauci said: 'There is no doubt that there are people out there who, for one reason or another, resent me for what I did in the last administration, which was not anything that was anti-Trump at all. 

'It was just trying to get the right information, to try and get the right data. What they didn't seem to understand, I guess that it is understandable that they didn't understand it, is that science is a dynamic process. 

'So something that you know in January, you make a recommendation or a comment about it, but as you get more and more information, the information leads you to change because that is what science is, it is a self-correcting process.  

'That is what I was trying to do, always tell the truth on the basis of what the data is. It was never deliberately something against the president.'

In a separate interview with NewsNation Now anchor Leland Vittert on The Donlon Report, Fauci explained why scientists focused their theories on the natural transmission from bats to humans through an intermediary species.

'The only trouble is they are really ripe to be taken out of context where someone can snip out a sentence in an email without showing the other emails, and say 'based on an email from Dr. Fauci, he said such and such' where you don't really have the full context,' Fauci told Vittert. 

Another trove of emails, published by the Washington Post, also revealed his cozy relationship with China's top infectious disease expert Dr. George Gao - the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention - during the early days of the pandemic in March and April of last year.  

'Let's put things in context ... We're not talking about the Chinese Communist Party. We're not talking about the Chinese military. We're talking about scientists that we've had relationships for years,' Fauci said.

Fauci then defended his relationship with Gao, a colleague of Fauci's 'for many years' and a member of the United States National Academy of Scientists.

'The scientists there, and others that we dealt with the original SARS, with the influenza virtually every year, the scientists are experienced,' Fauci said.

He then defended a grant the United States had provided the Wuhan lab, which has raised concerns that American money may have helped pay for the alleged creation of virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

'The Wuhan lab is a very large lab to the tune of hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. The grant that we're talking about was $600,000 over five years for an average of about $125,000 to $140,000 a year,' Fauci said.

He added: 'I can't guarantee everything that is going on in the Wuhan lab, I can't do that. But it is our obligation as scientists and public health individuals to study the animal-human interface' in the aftermath of the original SARS virus in 2002.

Fauci explained that SARS-CoV-1 'was clearly a jumping of species from a bat, to a civet cat, to a human.'

'So it was incumbent upon us to study the animal-human interface and to understand what potential these viruses have of infecting humans which then might damage the United States,' Fauci said.

'So you don't want to go to Hoboken, New Jersey or to Fairfax, Virginia to be studying the bat human interface that might lead to an outbreak. You go to China.'

Cuomo is facing a number of scandals, including revelations that his administration started tracking COVID-19 related nursing home resident deaths as early as last April, but the complete data was left out of a health department report three months later,

The state Health Department sent a memo to nursing homes and adult care facilities on April 18, 2020, directing them to report the number of residents who died from COVID-19 whether they died in the facility or not, the New York Post reports.

But 11 weeks later, the Health Department released a report on July 6 that excluded residents who did not die in a nursing home - appearing to under report the nursing home death toll by more than 8,000.

A March 25, 2020 order from the Cuomo administration that nursing homes accept COVID-positive residents returning from hospitals has been blamed for a spike in nursing home deaths.

But the July report found that the March 25 directive did not have a 'causal link' to the number of reported nursing home deaths.

The April memo, which was obtained by the New York Post, ordered nursing home administrators to tally the daily number of residents who died of COVID-19 whether the death occurred in their 'facility or the hospital setting'.

The Health Department's report only included deaths that happened in the facilities - which critics claim misrepresented the effect of the pandemic on nursing homes and the state's handling of the crisis.

The Health Department received information daily from the Hospital Emergency Response Data System, an application on the agency's health commerce system, a spokesperson for the agency told the New York Post.

That data included information from 'more than 1,000 long term care facilities and more than 200 hospitals since the start of this pandemic,' spokesman Gary Holmes said in April.

'In April 2020 we asked for additional information to provide a more specific clinical picture, and as part of that correspondence we asked all facilities to provide that same level of information retrospectively to March 1,' Holmes said.

Andrew Cuomo is seen on a call in March, as the allegations against him piled up. His brother took part in strategy calls and urged him not to give into "cancel culture"

Andrew Cuomo is seen on a call in March, as the allegations against him piled up. His brother took part in strategy calls and urged him not to give into 'cancel culture'

Beth Garvey, special counsel and senior advisor to Governor Cuomo, admitted in a March statement that the data about nursing home resident deaths outside of the nursing homes was omitted.

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