Social media users are calling for the arrest of Dr. Anthony Fauci and his removal as the nation's top infectious disease expert after his agency was found to have used taxpayer funds to finance cruel experiments on dogs.
The hashtag #ArrestFauci was trending on Twitter over the weekend, amplifying the outrage over the experiments, including one which saw beagles trapped in cages so flies could eat them, and another where they were 'debarked' before being pumped with drugs and killed.
One of the most disturbing incidents funded by Fauci's National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases involved $375,000 given to a Tunisian research lab.
There, puppies had their heads held in cages, before being left for sand flies to eat them alive for research purposes.
Distressing snaps showed the pups with their heads kept inside the muslin-type cages filled with the hungry insects.
Another procedure - which the NIH funded to the tune of $1.8m - saw 44 beagle puppies undergo a 'cordectomy,' which saw their vocal cords cut to stop them barking.
That experiment, which took place in Menlo Park, California, saw the dogs then pumped full of drugs, before being killed and dissected.
There are growing calls for the removal of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over experiments on dogs that are funded by his agency
The White Coat Waste Project claims the NIAID provided a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagle puppies and locked their heads in mesh cages so sand flies could eat the dogs filled with hundreds of infected sand flies
Melissa Tate wrote on Twitter: 'The fact that Fauci is still walking around free and is doing media appearances without a single "journalist" asking him about gain of function and #puppygate, is a true testament to how far gone this country is. God help us #ArrestFauci.'
Another Twitter user wrote: 'This is the same guy promoting the vaccine and forcing it on you, remember that'
Bryan Dean Wright tweeted: 'If you're angry about how Fauci uses puppies, just wait until you hear how he uses COVID vaccines on healthy kids.'
'This man has to go!' tweeted another Twitter user. 'Anyone responsible needs to be held accountable!'
Another Twitter user photoshopped a picture of Fauci, making it appear as if he was sitting behind bars. 'This is what the next lockdown should look like,' the caption on the meme read. According to this Twitter user, Fauci should be locked up for 'animal abuse and crimes against humanity'
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a statement demanding that President Joe Biden 'designate an NIH director who chooses human-relevant research'. The PETA statement did not name Fauci
Another Twitter user blasted Fauci, writing: 'He funded gain of function and he funded cruel treatment of innocent dogs. He's an evil doctor and a despicable person'
Other Twitter users posted photos of their dogs who were 'demanding' Fauci's arrest
A third, $425,000 set of taxpayer funded tests saw beagles howl in pain while being experimented on in Georgia.
On Twitter, angry social media users demanded Fauci's arrest.
Melissa Tate wrote on Twitter: 'The fact that Fauci is still walking around free and is doing media appearances without a single "journalist" asking him about gain of function and #puppygate, is a true testament to how far gone this country is. God help us #ArrestFauci.'
An official with the National Institutes of Health, the agency which oversees the NIAID headed by Fauci, admitted on Wednesday that American taxpayers funded gain of function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
The official acknowledged that EcoHealth Alliance, the US nonprofit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing.
In testimony before Congress, Fauci and outgoing NIH Director Francis Collins denied that the agency funded gain of function research at Wuhan.
Another Twitter user wrote: 'This is the same guy promoting the vaccine and forcing it on you, remember that.'
Bryan Dean Wright tweeted: 'If you're angry about how Fauci uses puppies, just wait until you hear how he uses COVID vaccines on healthy kids.'
'This man has to go!' tweeted another Twitter user. 'Anyone responsible needs to be held accountable!'
The sand flies would gnaw on the dogs' ears, eating them alive
The White Coat Waste Project also revealed that close to $1.68million was spent on experiments on a total of 44 beagles at Sri International in Menlo Park, California, in which the puppies received cordectomies and were force-fed drugs before being killed and dissected
Another Twitter user photoshopped a picture of Fauci, making it appear as if he was sitting behind bars. 'This is what the next lockdown should look like,' the caption on the meme read.
According to this Twitter user, Fauci should be locked up for 'animal abuse and crimes against humanity.'
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a statement demanding that President Joe Biden 'designate an NIH director who chooses human-relevant research'.
The PETA statement did not name Fauci.
Another Twitter user blasted Fauci, writing: 'He funded gain of function and he funded cruel treatment of innocent dogs. He's an evil doctor and a despicable person.'
Other Twitter users posted photos of their dogs who were 'demanding' Fauci's arrest.
In response to the gruesome revelations, a group of 24 lawmakers, led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), are now demanding Fauci provide answers about the experiments they believe to be 'cruel' and a 'reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds.'
'According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, and subsequent media coverage, from October 2018 until February 2019, NIAID spent $1.86million in taxpayer funds on drug tests involving 44 beagle puppies,' the letter from lawmakers reads.
'While documents state that the ostensible purpose of this study was to 'provide data of suitable quality and integrity to support application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory agencies,' the FDA itself has recently stated that it 'does not mandate that human drugs
