'Fauci Should Be Jailed'

Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th calls for incarceration of medical advisor.



Karina Lipsman

By Michael Lee Pope

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th Congressional District is calling for President Biden's chief medical advisor to be "jailed," a comment she made during a recent candidates forum hosted by the Alexandria Republican City Committee earlier this month. Over the weekend, Karina Lipsman emerged from a Republican convention as the party's nominee this fall. She will face the winner of the Democratic primary on June 21, when four-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) will face challenger Victoria Virasingh.

Lipsman's call for Fauci to be jailed came in response to a question about restoring trust in government and the media. She said that the media has been "silencing conservative voices for too long," and she expressed support for Elon Musk's possible purchase of Twitter. Turning her attention to the question of what could be done to restore trust in government, she said that as an immigrant from the Soviet Union she "never trusts the government." ...
"Fauci should be jailed. We all know that," said Lipsman, prompting applause from Alexandria Republicans. "We should do our own research."

Fauci has become a hated figure among certain elements of the right wing. During a recent rally in North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) also called for Fauci to be jailed. Similarly, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced the Fire Fauci Act, which suggests the chief medical advisor to the president "failed to provide Americans with accurate information" about the pandemic. That kind of rhetoric might work in some rural parts of North Carolina and Georgia, but it seems unlikely to work in the 8th Congressional District, where Biden won 78 percent of the vote in 2020.

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LIPSMAN RAISED significantly more money than any of her competitors for the Republican nomination, more than $65,000 according to campaign finance records. Her top contributor is Brian Johnson, vice president of Veterans Guardian who contributed $5,800. Other top contributors include cybersecurity consultant Charlie Platt of Arete Incident Response and Graham Abell, a student in Baltimore.

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