Louisiana AG says 'transparency' in public health is needed to restore trust amid Fauci scandal

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said Monday she believes restoring trust in the public health sector begins with providing more transparency as information comes out regarding Anthony Fauci and his concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Newly released text messages from the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director revealed his private concerns about the COVID vaccine's potential risks for pregnant women, despite claiming the vaccine was safe. 

"Every single day it seems like now something new comes out that we find out that Fauci had concerns about what many of us were expressing concerns about," Murrill said on the "Just The News, No Noise" TV show. "We all kept being told that we were anti-vaxxers and that we were liars and that we were, you know, trying to cause people to die from COVID.

"The accusations that were made against anybody who raised any questions based on what they were seeing happening on the ground ... and now we're seeing that all of those concerns were valid," she added.

Murrill said her son developed Myocarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine and was hospitalized for a week during the pandemic as a result. 

The attorney general said she believes that transparency is a good way to restore trust in medicine, along with ending threats from the state and federal government of pulling a doctor's medical license if they disagree with the administration.

"I've said this before. I think transparency is the first step in that direction, I think the public needs to hear the truth and we're entitled to the truth," she said. "Parents were being told 'vaccinate your kids' as young as age five, that there's no side effects that myocarditis is not severe and they bounce back within a few days. Well, that's just frankly not true. It's very very dangerous.

"I think pediatric cardiologists know this, and all the doctors in the country were also being threatened," she continued. "Their medical licenses were being threatened. So we need people to be able to question the science without threat of retaliation from the government or from their state government."

Murrill also highlighted that Americans were told to "trust the science" because it was not about politics and yet the "science" showed gaps in the data.

"How many times did we hear trust the science? This is about science, not about politics,'" she said. "Turns out it was all about politics, not about science. Many of us were asking questions about the science because the data showed gaps. 

"The studies that they were conducting showed a lot of gaps, or the studies that were being conducted did not cover large groups and populations that were having spikes in reactions to these vaccines," she added. "And we were told to look the other way and not question them."

The attorney general also noted her state's work to prosecute Fauci, who has a presidential pardon that protects him from federal charges but not state, over his team's attempt to coerce different platforms to take down speech that was protected by the First Amendment.

"One of the large areas that the government was really pressuring those platforms to  prevent that speech from being able to be heard by the rest of the American public was related to COVID, and so there were a number of people that these platforms were told to target," she said. "I'm looking at what Fauci did in the context of our litigation to see whether he lied and whether there are potentially perjury charges that could arise from that."

The comments come the same day that President Donald Trump signed an executive order regarding childhood vaccines, which gives parents more control and separates the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.