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Sen. Rand Paul: Congress Will Vote on Holding Fauci in Contempt After He Invoked Fifth Amendment Over 100 Times

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said there will be a panel vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt after the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) refused to answer any question during his testimony on Wednesday, instead repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment.

“That’s a vote that will happen in committee next week. It will be in contempt of Congress,” Paul told reporters after the hearing, which featured Fauci refusing to answer one question from lawmakers.

“We believe that with his… immunity from criminal liability, that he didn’t need to hide behind the Fifth Amendment and that maybe the Fifth Amendment doesn’t attach when you have a pardon in place,” Paul explained, noting it will be a legal question.

“That’ll be a legal question, but the question on contempt will be voted on, and then there’s a question of whether or not the Department of Justice will take that up,” he added.

There are 8 Republicans on the committee, 7 Democrats. None of the Republicans are the Squishes, so, Paul can probably get the panel vote to hold Fauci in contempt, possibly with John Fetterman voting in favor. The full Senate, though? Too many Squishes. Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski will surely vote against it, just because they are Squishes. Again, Fetterman will possibly join Republicans.

Other lawmakers on the committee also pointed out that Fauci, whom former President Joe Biden pardoned, had nothing to hide.

“Let’s just get one thing straight: You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said. “Brown vs. Walker, 1896. When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege. You know that, your lawyers sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs, they know it.”

Let’s be honest: even if he is found in contempt by the Senate, nothing will happen. Nothing. We’re over six years beyond the visible start of COVID, and, who has been held liable? Who has been fired? Lost their pension?

(AP) A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci was indicted on federal charges alleging he conspired to hide his communications related to COVID-19 research as the pandemic raged across the country, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Dr. David Morens, 78, is accused of using his private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws while employed at the National Institutes of Health. The Justice Department alleges that he concealed or destroyed records of discussions related to COVID-19 research grants, including an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant.

Just indicted. Most of the Science!!!! folks, Credentialed Media, and politicians suffered no repercussions for their COVID insanity. Did the people of Michigan boot Gretchen Whitmer for things like extreme lockdowns, even telling stores they can’t sell seeds for the garden, all while her husband tried to get their boat of of drydock? No. She won re-election. Same with most of the others with strict lockdowns, who also seemed to be marching in the streets in large groups during the George Floyd madness. Around the world few politicians paid the price. Mostly just Trump in 2020 and Jacinda Arden, PM of New Zealand, who was forced out in 2023.

(Fox News) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling for Anthony Fauci to be held in contempt, prosecuted for perjury and sent to jail after the former White House COVID-19 advisor pleaded his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times during a Senate hearing Wednesday.

“Years from now, they’ll look back and say, ‘What collective madness overtook this country?’” Cruz told Fox News Digital.

“I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades,” he said. “His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again.”

It’s 2026. Nothing will happen. The time to do something was years ago when the lies and BS and crackdowns and stuff was fresh. And I have zero trust that the GOP will do anything, because they really never do. If the situations were reversed the Democrats would have already prosecuted Fauci and tons of other people. If the Dems win the House this Fall they will be holding TDS impeachment hearings by no later than day 3 of the new term, even if they don’t hold the Senate. Going after all sorts of Trump admin members immediately. They do not play. Republicans haven’t figured out this game this century.

Cruz and Fauci have had a longstanding feud, similar to his relationships with other GOP senators like Paul, over Fauci’s handling of the outbreak and claims he was dishonest about the origins of COVID-19 to both Congress and the American people.

“In his diary, he wrote early on that it was clear that the COVID virus did not come from the wet market in Wuhan, and then he turned around and said exactly the opposite thing on national television,” Cruz said.

Everyone who perpetuated the COVID fraud and lockdowns and everything that went along with it will get away with it, both in the US and internationally, just like they have from the get go. It’s sad.