White House rips ‘disgusting’ Elon Musk for ‘Prosecute/Fauci’ tweet

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed Twitter CEO Elon Musk Monday for what she called his “disgusting” tweets calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be prosecuted for allegedly lying to Congress and potentially causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Musk, the world’s richest man, tweeted Sunday, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” He clarified later that he was referring, in part, to Fauci allegedly perjuring himself by denying that his agency funded risky “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic began.

“These personal attacks that we have been seeing are dangerous, on Dr. Fauci and other public...