After Bragging About RT Interview, Atlas Apologizes, Says He Didn’t Know Outlet Is A Foreign Agent

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, speaks during a TV interview with OAN on October 12, 2020 in Washington, DC (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post)
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, speaks during a TV interview with OAN on October 12, 2020 in Washington, DC (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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A day after warning that people had best “use a mask to cover your eyes and ears” if they can’t handle the “truth” contained in his interview with RT, White House adviser Scott Atlas is now claiming that he didn’t know the Russian propaganda outlet is a registered foreign agent.

The Kremlin-backed TV network registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department back in 2017.

Atlas’ Sunday tone is very different from the one he struck when sharing the interview in a now-deleted tweet.

“New interview,” he wrote Saturday. “Lockdown, facts, frauds … if you can’t handle truth, use a mask to cover your eyes and ears,” he said, adding #FactsMatter and #LockdownsKill.

During the interview itself, Atlas — who is neither an epidemiologist nor a practicing doctor of any kind — pushed his typically specious COVID-19 claims.

“The lockdowns will go down as an epic failure of public policy,” Atlas said. “The argument is undeniable. The lockdowns are killing people.”

He went on to attribute some of the 231,000 American COVID-19 deaths to the lockdown, which real doctors support to slow the spread of the infection.

Atlas caught President Donald Trump’s eye in the first place due to his wildly wrong and over-optimistic COVID-19 predictions, predicting that the disease would peak in April and that the curve had been flattened in May. He has argued a line popular with Trump, that the cure is worse than the disease, and advocated for “herd immunity.”

He made many of those arguments on Fox News, and soon after became an adviser to members of the White House coronavirus task force.

He has whipped up a significant following for his medical bunk, despite being called “an outlier” by the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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  1. He doesn’t know COVID has killed almost a quarter of a million people.
    He doesn’t know RT is a foreign agent.

    HE NEEDS TO GO WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN

  2. Dickhead.

    Oh, yeah, and Uncle Pootie is making masks mandatory—whaddya say about that, Scottie?

  3. I remember unbelievable arguments on DemocraticUnderground.com about whether or not RT was a Russian propaganda outlet.

    Now I consider it a badge of honor to have been kicked out of that place.

    Atlas is a fool.

  4. He’s a toad and a liar and knows exactly how lucky he’s been to run into Trump and inducted into liars anonymous…

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