Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says that Bill Gates had a “private editor” who worked at the National Institutes of Health.
At the same time, Paul released documents that point to Gates having the highest level of access at the Department of Energy as well as getting insider briefings from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Today, a Senate committee led by Rand Paul (R-KY) will vote to send a contempt charge to the full Senate over Fauci’s refusal to testify while immunized last week. That could lead to criminal prosecution by a Department of Justice that’s likely enthused by the prospect. Fauci’s diaries on government servers would get even more attention in a high-profile trial, laying out Fauci’s lies during the pandemic as well as his infatuation with celebrity, his own and others’.
That may not be the last reveal into Fauci’s character, either. The Wall Street Journal reported late last night that another Senate committee now has a copy of Fauci’s iPhone, used during his management of the pandemic. What secrets might that hold?
Update: Fauci held in contempt by Senate panel after taking the Fifth 111 times in COVID hearing — could face prosecution
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for declining to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his past testimony to Congress regarding risky, US-funded “gain of function” research
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 along party lines to refer the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for potential prosecution after he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times last week.
Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has hit back at Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback launched a scathing verbal assault on him on-air.
Rodgers, who has long been a vaccine skeptic and was extremely outspoken about the Covid-19 pandemic, didn’t hold back as he eviscerated Fauci in the wake of his decision to continuously plead the fifth amendment in a hostile senate hearing.
Appearing on ESPN on Monday, Rodgers attacked Fauci in a 13-minute monologue, labeling the 85-year-old an ‘absolute criminal’ and an ‘absolute coward’.
#Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers on @PatMcAfeeshow, live on ESPN, after the first question:
"I'm gonna plead the 5th. Like that absolute coward Tony Fauci. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? What are you scared of Tony? I thought you were science?"
Aaron Rodgers just unloaded ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/vhmHb4vitg
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) August 3, 2026
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Dr. Anthony Fauci last week exactly what would happen if he stonewalled Congress. Fauci ignored him. Now Paul is delivering on that promise, and conservatives who have waited years for this moment have every reason to celebrate.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci a full 111 times in last Wednesday’s homeland security committee hearing. According to Miranda Devine, that number is exceeded by “only a couple of mob bosses.” While invoking his own constitutional rights, Dr. Fauci believes the people don’t have rights even more basic than avoiding self-incrimination.
I am thinking of sending Anthony Fauci a copy of Herodotus’ Histories. After his humiliating performance before the Senate last week, Dr. Fauci might find the story of Solon’s visit to the Lydian king Croesus instructive. Croesus displays his great wealth to the Athenian lawgiver and asks, “Who is the happiest man you have ever seen?” Croesus expects Solon to name him. Instead, Solon says that no one can be judged truly happy while still living because fate can reverse one’s fortune in an instant.
This week, Republican senator Rand Paul subpoenaed Dr Anthony Fauci – the Covid pandemic’s rockstar medic (and long-serving bureaucrat). He was to appear before Paul’s Senate hearing for a showdown about the origin of the Covid pandemic. In the run-up to the hearing, Paul released more than 1,000 pages of emails and Slack messages sent by Fauci and his associates before and during the pandemic, including an astonishing diary that Fauci had kept during the critical years of 2019 to 2022.
Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer senators’ questions this week about his conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But in the 1,141-page private diary released before that hearing, the former top infectious disease official had plenty to say about the press, his celebrity, his enemies on the “far right,” and his frustration with White House aides who would not put him on television.
If you believe in karma or that chickens always come home to roost, you have to explain why Mao and Stalin died in bed, and Hitler was able to choose his own way out. But watching Anthony Fauci on the witness stand before Congress taking the Fifth as fast as his lips could flap (more than 100 times), you could see some evidence that at least some hens become broiler chickens.
Former COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded The Fifth 111 times at Wednesday’s Congressional hearing – but, that’s not what promised to do when the prospect of oversight of his handling of the epidemic first surfaced.
At Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs hearing, the former face and head of the federal government’s response to the deadly COVID-19 epidemic refused to answer even a single question about his past actions, claims and health-safety recommendations.
It wasn’t good for Anthony Fauci or anybody else that he took the Fifth at his Senate hearing this week. That plus his diary may well have been a reputation-destroying event.
It was obviously his right as a citizen to invoke the protections of the Constitution, and he surely had his reasons, but everyone who takes the Fifth knows what it looks like: It’s the early ’60s, we’re at congressional hearings on la Cosa Nostra, and the head of one of the five families is fiddling with his diamond pinkie ring as he asserts his right not to incriminate himself.
Watching the reactions to Wednesday’s “I Take The Fifth” Senate hearing starring Dr. Anthony Fauci was a good bit more illuminating than was the actual hearing.
I’m going to assume that’s an uncontroversial take — after all, with Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment some 111 times, even to questions like “what day of the week is it,” “what color is your tie,” and “what color is the carpet in front of you,” the informational value of the hearing itself was close to zero.
I can't stop picturing him lying on a bed, writing in a diary like a teenager. pic.twitter.com/dF4iVYgC24
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 27, 2026
It’s clear that Anthony Fauci was fairly certain that he had funded the Gain-of-Function research that likely created the COVID virus from the very beginning of the pandemic, and that his top priority was covering up that fact
It was priority #1, even before addressing the public health danger.
He’s not just a powerful guy who acted in bad faith. He’s a totem to a whole class of people who don’t care about that.
This is old inside- baseball blogger stuff in part, but there’s a bigger lesson.
Old time (and I mean old-time) blog readers may remember Jeff Jarvis’s fierce post-9/11 warblogging, which pivoted rather suddenly into leftish pro-Democratic blogging in time for the 2004 election. Jeff and I were close before the pivot (he got me my long-ago MSNBC gig), and remained friendly even after. We were Facebook friends from the beginning, though our interactions over the past decade-plus were confined to the occasional like or happy birthday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has had quite a bit to say about Covid and “science” throughout the past year. But when it came to answering for his corrupt handling of the outbreak before the Senate on Wednesday, the so-called health “expert” kept his trap shut.
