Fauci Pleads the Fifth More Than 100 Times in Fiery Covid Grilling

Dr Anthony Fauci refused to answer more than 100 questions about the origins of Covid during a fiery Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, accusing Republicans of having an “unhinged obsession” with him. The Mail has the story:

The former Chief Medical Advisor invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination in the opening round. He then continued to do so over 100 separate times when interrogated by lawmakers on the committee.

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” Fauci told Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul numerous times in the opening round of questions.

During his opening statement, Fauci earlier accused Paul of having an “unhinged obsession” with him.

“Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me,” Fauci noted.

“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words ‘behind bars’,” Fauci continued. …

Fauci’s attorney David Schertler was physically removed by security in an explosive moment when he attempted to speak on behalf on Fauci. 

“I didn’t invite you here to testify,” exclaimed Paul before setting the guards on him to drag him out. …

Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, blasted Fauci for using federal employees to enrich himself during the pandemic by applying for a variety of awards to recognise his work.

“You turned your staff into a full-time application machine. You actually wrote to people and said, ‘Do you think maybe I qualify?’ And you got cash for all of this. And it wasn’t just one or two employees, was it? In fact, you used eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash for that,” Hawley probed. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment again while being questioned by Hawley.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Watch this video in which Fauci says he’s very happy to testify in front of any Congressinal committee. As Julian Assange says, it didn’t age well.