WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci may be on the cusp of retirement, but that has hardly made the president’s top medical adviser immune to political attacks from opponents who hold him responsible for various shortcomings, whether real or perceived, in how the nation handled the coronavirus pandemic.
His most recent critic is Twitter owner Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, who trained his 121 million followers on the 81-year-old outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with a series of messages in recent days.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted on Sunday, using a popular right-wing meme to mock transgender and nonbinary people. Since taking