Former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro launched into a tirade against Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday — going as far as to slam the infectious disease expert as “the father of the virus.”

Navarro was reacting to a clip from Fauci’s recent interview with CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, during which Fauci said pushing for the development of the coronavirus vaccine was the “best decision” he made.

“That’s when it became very clear that the decision we made on January the 10th — to go all out and develop a vaccine — may have been the best decision that I’ve ever made with regard to an intervention as director of the institute,” he said to Gupta.

“A quick reaction to that?” Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Navarro. “I know that’s gotta be steaming you, Peter.”

Without missing a beat, Navarro then went on a wild rant against Fauci, calling him a “sociopath” and “the father” of the coronavirus.

“Fauci is a sociopath and a liar. He had nothing to do with the vaccine. The father of the vaccine is Donald J. Trump,” said the economist. “What is Fauci the father of? Fauci is the father of the actual virus. Fauci is the guy — this virus, according to [Robert] Redfield at the Centers for Disease Control, came from the Wuhan lab and basically we had Fauci not only funding that lab with American taxpayer dollars, he authorized this thing called gain of function research.

“He allowed the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army to genetically engineer a virus using gain of function,” he continued. “I call it the Fauci virus now. If he wants to be the father of something, he is the father of the virus that’s killed over half a million Americans.”

Campos-Duffy offered absolutely zero pushback regardless of the countless false statements, including the baseless notion that Fauci funded a lab in Wuhan that created the virus. The claim was first made by opinion and news website WorldNetDaily, and was later fact checked as false.

“Well, Peter, we are still trying to get to the bottom of that and we are definitely going to bring you back when we get more information on it,” Campos-Duffy said. “But, you are right, there is a lot of questions out there. Peter, I can’t thank you enough for joining me today.”

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