Anthony Fauci invokes 5th Amendment right not to testify at Covid hearing, calls Sen. Rand Paul ‘unhinged’
- On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former NIAID director, appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under subpoena. He repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right, declining to answer questions about COVID-19 origins.
- Prior to the hearing, Chairman Sen. Rand Paul released over 1,100 pages of Fauci's pandemic-era diary entries. Paul argues these documents reveal discrepancies between Fauci's private notes and public testimony regarding gain-of-function research.
- Calling Paul's scrutiny an "unhinged obsession," Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during the hearing. He cited legal advice and accused the senator of attempting to trap him into perjury.
- Following the refusal, Chairman Paul announced the committee will vote next week on contempt of Congress charges. Democrats defended Fauci, calling the proceedings unjustified and an attempt at "entrapment" rather than legitimate oversight.
- The hearing reflects persistent partisan divisions over the government's pandemic response. Experts warn that targeting veteran scientists like Fauci could discourage future public health officials from entering government service during emergencies.
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D.C. Memo: Fauci pleads the Fifth
WASHINGTON – The grilling of Anthony Fauci consumed Washingtonians this week as Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee accused the infectious disease expert of causing the COVID-19 pandemic and even of enriching himself from American deaths. The three-hour hearing Wednesday showed the width of the partisan divide over Fauci, who spent decades as the nation’s top infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, advis…
Timeline of Dr. Anthony Fauci Investigations and Congressional Hearings (2020–2026) - FINCHANNEL
The Senate hearing in which Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment did not emerge in isolation. It was the culmination of more than six years of congressional scrutiny, political confrontation and legal debate over the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While Fauci became one of the most trusted public health officials for many Americans during the pandemic, he also became one of the nation’s most controver…
Covid was A Nothing Burger
Brought to you by the Rhino Times So the man who gaslighted the American people six years ago as he tried to force us all to submit to a toxic injection is now taking the Fifth Amendment – 111 tlimes! – in an attempt not to incriminate himself by having to tell the truth. His name is Anthony Fauci, and he once publicly […] The post Covid was A Nothing Burger appeared first on The Rhino Times of Greensboro.
The Fauci Covid‑Origins Hearing: Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Political Weapons
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Art Jipson, University of Dayton Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee more than 100 times on July 29, 2026. The Republican-led hearing—convened to scrutinize Fauci’s management of the pandemic and the origins of COVID-19—was the latest chapter in a political story that began in 2020, when uncertainty, fear and frustration with …
The Fifth Amendment won’t save Fauci from himself
In “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Oscar Wilde imagines a portrait that records the corruption its subject refuses to see in himself. Dorian hides the picture because its truth is unbearable. The concealment is physical, but the deeper act is spiritual: Self-deception protects him from self-knowledge.Anthony Fauci’s Wednesday appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs supplied a modern version of Wilde’s i…
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