Woody Harrelson accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of doing some ‘extraordinarily evil sh**’ during his time as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The Cheers actor, 63, joined podcaster Joe Rogan on his show the Joe Rogan Experience on Saturday as the pair talked about their hopes for the country’s future in health.
Harrelson described Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services – as ‘heroic,’ and a ‘man who cares deeply,’ just before comparing his views with Fauci’s.
Fauci, 84, who also served as former President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, has long been under fire for his views on vaccines – specifically when it came to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Hunger Games star brought up the disgraced doctor’s push for the AZT or azidothymidine vaccine back in the 1980’s during the AIDS crisis.
AZT was the first antiretroviral medication used to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, but according to Harrelson, it was a ‘really ineffective’ and dangerous drug that killed people, including his friends.
‘He started with the AZT thing! And, you know, AZT was known to be highly toxic, really ineffective drug, and of course, that was the one they picked,’ Harrelson told Rogan.
‘And so they started using that again, and I don’t know how many people got killed. That killed friends of mine. AZT was very toxic and they finally had to yank it. And now they use different chemical cocktails, but like, Fauci did some extraordinarily evil sh**… and he knows what he did.’
Woody Harrelson said Dr. Anthony Fauci did some ‘extraordinarily evil sh**’ during his time as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Fauci (pictured in 2022), 84, who also served as former President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, has long been under fire for his views on vaccines – specifically when it came to the COVID-19 pandemic
Rogan then chimed in about Fauci’s recent pardon, stating: ‘He’s pre-pardoned federally, but he’s not pre-pardoned state-wise.’
On Biden’s last day in the Oval Office, Fauci received a preemptive pardon from the former president, much to the fury of his critics who believe the doctor lied to Congress about the US sending money to fund gain-of-function research to a Wuhan, China lab.
The pardon for Fauci, who has not been officially accused of any crimes, will date all the way back to 2014, which was when the National Institutes of Health awarded a multimillion-dollar grant to EcoHealth Alliance, a research group, to study bat coronavirus in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 eventually started.
Because of his preemptive pardon, Rogan said: ‘These states can still sue him. Not only that, when you’re pardoned, you can no longer plead the Fifth, so you could be held for perjury.’
‘It’s just a bummer that someone had that kind of power for so long and was such a f***ing monster,’ Rogan added.
