Anthony Fauci has defended mocking Republican senator Roger Marshall after the two sparred over his financial disclosures during a senate committee hearing on health, education, labour and pensions.
Dr Fauci, in an interview with MSNBC News on Wednesday, said he was stunned to know “that a sitting United States senator doesn’t realise that my financial statement is public knowledge”.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) claimed Mr Marshall, through his line of inquiry, was accusing him of making investments in the market based on “so-called inside knowledge” about the drugs that are effective.
“It just is an example, again, he was implying, if you listen to the entire dialogue, that in my position, responsible for drug trials and having so-called inside knowledge of what drug works and what drug doesn’t work, that maybe I was making investments sort of like ahead of the game here,” he said.
Dr Fauci added that Mr Marshall “was totally implying that, and he made the statement that we can’t get your financial statement….
