(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Longtime Forbes contributor Adam Adrzejewski was fired from the magazine after publishing criticism on the financial dealings of Covid Czar Anthony Fauci, Citizen Free Press reported.
“Clearly Forbes editors didn’t want our oversight of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s finances” and that’s the reason his column was “canceled,” Andrzejewski, who is also the CEO of the website OpenTheBooks.com, told host Tucker Carlson.
Six executives at the National Institute of Health recently sent him and a Forbes editor an email with complaints over his coverage.
“It was couched as a corrections email, but the corrections—there were basically no substantial corrections—and they quibbled about small things in my column,” he said.
This letter became the “exuse that Forbes used to cancel the column.”
After the email, Andrzejewski’s editor at the magazine told him he could not publish anything more on Fauci.
Andrzejewski’s work, while controversial, has earned millions of views for Forbes since he revealed that Fauci was the highest-paid government employee in 2019 at a salary of $456,000 annually.
President Joe Biden makes $400,000 per year.
Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, works at the NIH. With their combined incomes, they made $1.7 million in 2020.
“So if you take their salaries, tack on the taxpayer-paid cost of federal benefits at 30 percent, the two Faucis, their household income, paid for by taxpayers every year is $900,000,” Andrzejewski said, estimating the net worth of the Fauci family at $10.4 million.
Andrzejewski also broke the story of Fauci’s $350,000 retirement package.
When asked why they let a successful columnist go, Forbes spokesman Bill Hankes gave a boilerplate statement, dodging the political implications.
“Forbes regularly removes contributors who don’t meet our high editorial standards,” he explained, while pointing out the journalist’s previous columns of Fauci were still available on the magazine’s website.
In an interview with the New York Post, Andrzejewski insisted that “today, if you are an independent voice, outside of the organs of state authority, you are in jeopardy. I am an example of this. My column at Forbes became an example of that.”