During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Senator Bernie Moreno tore into Anthony Fauci using explicit language while pressing the former public health official on the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Who the f*** do you think you were?” Moreno, an Ohio Republican, asked Fauci. “It is a total disgrace what you did to this country.”

He further accused Fauci — the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — of being “more interested in being a celebrity than saving the American people.”

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