Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson argues that federal health officials ignored or downplayed “red flags” about vaccine safety during the COVID pandemic and the news media shares responsibility for failing to scrutinize their claims, during an appearance on the “Charlie Kirk Show.”
This is a tweet from Meghan McCain. She says, “Put Fauci in jail. I am a woman who was pregnant and had a miscarriage during COVID.” She goes on to say, “This is not hyperbole. Handcuff, perp walk, and put Fauci in jail for the rest of his life.”
Now, whether or not you can do any of that stuff is not the question. The anger that she is expressing—I can’t imagine being forced to have to take the shot to, you know, keep my job, to do what I had to do, to be in the military for goodness’ sake, to have a miscarriage, and now find out on the back end that they were aware that this was a real threat.
My question to you is, in any public statements following this text thread that you’ve released, did Dr. Fauci admit to this? Did he hint about it? Did he acknowledge that this was things they were looking into? Anything?
RON JOHNSON: No. Instead, he said there are no red flags. And he says we’re not seeing safety signals. No, they were being shown the red flags. They were being shown the safety signals. They were screaming at them.
Again, VAERS was overwhelmed. The contractor they hired to input reports to VAERS, they said the worst-case scenario is 1,000 adverse events a day. They were getting tens of thousands. VAERS was overwhelmed. They got about a million adverse events in the first year, in 2021.
So again, what is so infuriating about this: I’ve had Dr. James Thorp. He’s an OB-GYN practicing for, I think, 40 years. He was seeing this. I’ve had him testify at my public events, at a hearing.
The mainstream media doesn’t cover it.
So that’s what’s so frustrating to me, is I’ve been putting this out now for years. I’ve been warning the public for years. I’ve been called a whack job. You know, I’m an anti-vaxxer, supposedly. You know, I’m a villain. I’ve been ridiculed.
But only once Fauci—once it came from his texts—the mainstream media was forced to cover it.
By the way, the way they’re covering it is they’re covering up for him. You know, I’m listening to the Wall Street Journal—I’m reading the Wall Street Journal article on this—well, this is exactly what Fauci should have done. He’s hypothesizing. He’s doing what any scientist would do.
No. What a public health official should have done is, yeah, hypothesize, take a look at these things, but then warn the public. Don’t keep it to yourself, and don’t lie, boldface, to the public that we’re just not seeing red flags, we see no safety signals.
They were shown dozens of safety signals within months of the emergency use authorization, well before the injection was finally approved, well before it was mandated to members of our military, mandated to many other people, used to coerce people, including children.
Who, by the way, now we know the FDA is acknowledging children, through autopsies, died of the injection.
Where’s that on the mainstream news media?
So, again, I hold the media as culpable as I hold Fauci and all these other federal officials that lied to the American public. The news media, they had access to this. They just wouldn’t ask. They covered for him all this time. They’re still covering for him.
HOST: Well, Senator Ron Johnson, I echo what Blake said. God bless you for being the tip of the spear on this. You and Rand Paul deserve our admiration, our appreciation for this.
And, you know, I just want to say, you’re talking about the rise of DSA. How do we make our case? Can you imagine if the DSA would have been in charge at any sort of level during COVID, how much worse it would have been?
It was already terrible. The authoritarian impulse of so many people to seize control, close us down, force us and coerce us to take these shots against our will—it would only be worse.
