“China eats weird animals disease”

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.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) went off on Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday, blaming him for COVID lockdown mandates and asking: “Who the f–k do you think you were for doing that?”

Moreno began his round of questioning during the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee by ripping into Fauci’s attorney and scolding the former White House COVID-19 czar for his handling of the pandemic.

My simple question for Anthony Fauci this morning: who the fuck do you think you are?

Fauci’s message to the countless Americans he locked in their homes, who were fired from their jobs over vax mandates, the children he forced to wear masks? “I plead the 5th.” Criminal. pic.twitter.com/mm9JWQSf6Z

— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 29, 2026

Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment at the start of his Wednesday hearing, ripping Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for “unhinged” remarks and claiming the only purpose of the Homeland Security Committee’s investigation was to put him “behind bars.”

“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, 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,’” said Fauci.

Fauci and “Good Faith”

On 8 February 2020, Anthony Fauci took a morning telephone call from Tom Frieden, formerly the director of the CDC. He wrote down what they discussed. Both men agreed the new coronavirus was behaving like a bad influenza in transmissibility. Fauci recorded 34,867 known cases against 724 deaths, then observed that the real denominator was far larger than the confirmed count. That put the case fatality rate at 0.2 to 0.3 percent rather than 2.0 percent (Paul 2026).

He was right, and the estimate has held up better than most of what was said in public over the two years that followed.

h/t handy n handsome

Nobody wants to think about Joe Biden or Anthony Fauci anymore, lest he risk being retraumatized and suffer neck-breaking convulsions. But if we never want to experience anything like them again, it’s worth looking at the reasons both of them are relevant again this week.

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci privately admitted that scientists suspected the coronavirus likely stemmed from a lab leak as he publicly blasted it as a wild conspiracy theory, revelations from his diary showcase.

Next week, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. After years of stonewalling, evasions, carefully parsed denials, and outright lies, this hearing presents a rare opportunity to get answers from America’s most notorious mad scientist, who recklessly funded dangerous animal experiments that likely caused COVID-19 and financed beagle torture in labs worldwide.

This time is different.

Recent revelations about the origins of the COVID-19 virus have heightened suspicions many Americans have about both the pandemic and the vaccines used to treat it.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 45% of American Adults consider it likely that the COVID-19 pandemic was part of a secret plan by global elites to reduce worldwide population, including 24% who think it’s Very Likely. This view of the virus as “a population control scheme” has been called COVID-19 misinformation. Forty-five percent (45%) don’t believe this explanation is likely, including 30% who say it is Not At All Likely, while 10% are not sure.

A 2024 video montage serves as a painful and necessary reminder of what they did to us — and why the Trump Department of Justice needs to hold them accountable so that they can never do it again.

The “they” in question are the scientists, bureaucrats, health officers, the Big Pharma executives, the “experts” who destroyed so many lives with orders and lockdowns and lies.