Coronavirus: Right-wing anti-lockdown protest hailed by Trump featured disturbing ‘hang Fauci’ sign
A disturbing sign calling for the hanging of the White House’s top infectious diseases expert featured at a rally repeatedly praised by Donald Trump.
The protest in New York on Thursday against coronavirus lockdown measures made headlines when a local television news reporter received sustained abuse from demonstrators there.
The reporter, Kevin Vesey, posted footage of the incident on Twitter, which was shared thousands of times and eventually by the US president himself, who retweeted it multiple times.
“People can’t get enough of this. Great people!” Mr Trump tweeted on Saturday in support of the protesters, many of whom were the president’s supporters.
Though the sign calling for the execution of Dr Anthony Fauci did not feature in the social media video, it appeared in a TV report by Mr Vesey for News 12 Long Island.
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