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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFauci Aide Unmasked as COVID Troll Will Retire
https://www.thedailybeast.com/redstate-covid-troll-streiff-is-actually-bill-crews-and-he-actually-works-for-dr-anthony-fauciThe managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState has spent months trashing U.S. officials tasked with combating COVID-19, dubbing White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci a mask nazi, and intimating that government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed.
But that writer, who goes by the pseudonym streiff, isnt just another political blogger. The Daily Beast has discovered that he actually works in the public affairs shop of the very agency that Fauci leads.
William B. Crews is, by day, a public affairs specialist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But for years he has been writing for RedState under the streiff pseudonym. And in that capacity he has been contributing to the very same disinformation campaign that his superiors at the NIAID say is a major challenge to widespread efforts to control a pandemic that has claimed roughly 200,000 U.S. lives.
Under his pseudonym, Crews has derided his own colleagues as part of a left-wing anti-Trump conspiracy and vehemently criticized the man who leads his agency, whom he described as the attention-grubbing and media-whoring Anthony Fauci. He has gone after other public health officials at the state and federal levels, as wellthe public health Karenwaffen,'' as hes called themover measures such as the closures of businesses and other public establishments and the promotion of social distancing and mask-wearing. Those policies, Crews insists, have no basis in science and are simply surreptitious efforts to usurp Americans rights, destroy the U.S. economy, and damage President Donald Trumps reelection effortto
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Fauci Aide Unmasked as COVID Troll Will Retire (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
More than fire, and take benes - need to scare similiar trolls burrowing wherever.
empedocles
Sep 2020
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2naSalit
(86,569 posts)1. Wrong!
Fire the asshole for insubordination and take away his retirement benes.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. More than fire, and take benes - need to scare similiar trolls burrowing wherever.
2naSalit
(86,569 posts)3. Could be brought up on charges for
his actions too.
After that type of behavior, letting him 'retire' and walk away relatively unscathed is wrong.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)5. That guy shouldn't collect a penny of retirement money