NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- When thousands of Trump supporters descended upon the U.S. Capitol earlier this month -- breaching the complex, injuring dozens of officers and resulting in 5 deaths -- Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't surprised.
After all, he'd been receiving death threats from Trump supporters for months, and he just revealed that he even received an envelope with a mystery white powder. Luckily, it turned out to be non-toxic.
During an interview on "Erin Burnett Outfront" on CNN Monday, Burnett asked the infectious disease expert if the Jan. 6 siege seemed "inevitable to you, because you had firsthand experience? The threats of violence?"
Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Biden, responded, "Yeah. Well, it did. And in fact, what it did to me is to just underscore the intensity of the divisiveness in our society because if nearly articulating a commonly held public health message of something that every public health official in the country would agree with, because I articulate that publicly, if that triggers death threats against me, harassment on my family, my children and my wife, somebody sending me an envelope with powder that explodes in my face to scare me and my family, boy, that tells you the depth of the divisiveness."
Fauci added, "And then January 6th to me was like, oh, my goodness, here it is in its ultimate. It's purely reflection of divisiveness that is such -- so deep that it's disturbing."
He further explained, "And to me, you know, as a person who -- you know, I don't want to seem melodramatic -- who loves our country, I just see that be nothing but destructive and it's very scary."
