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All the protectionist measures he ascribes to Canada are mirrored by U.S. policies.

If the ‘sociology of education’ professor can be cleared of allegations of plagiarism, then who will ever be convicted of it?

Since Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released on Saturday nearly 2,000 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diaries that delivered one bombshell after another about how he handled the coronavirus pandemic, ABC and NBC had yet to say a word on the leading morning or evening shows. However, that changed Wednesday morning with stories explaining away his behavior ahead of what became an explosive Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.ABC’s Good Morning America only mustered a partial segment tallying 89 seconds, starting with co-host Robin Roberts announcing Fauci was “set to testify on Capitol Hill” for “a grilling by longtime critic Senator Rand Paul over his role in handling the COVID pandemic.”

WATCH: ABC News finally covered the Fauci diaries on one of their leading newscasts, previewing the hearing on Wednesday’s ‘Good Morning America’ and lamenting Fauci would “face a grilling by longtime critic Senator Rand Paul over his role in handling the COVID pandemic” and… pic.twitter.com/NwKhugcUFa— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 29, 2026

D.C.-based correspondent Jay O’Brien also said it’d “be a fiery hearing” with Paul going after “Fauci, 85-years-old, once the nation’s top infectious disease expert who retired in 2022.”He added Paul has “accused Fauci of everything from misleading the COVID — mishandling the COVID response, to misleading the public about COVID’s origins, to even lying to Congress, all of which Fauci strenuously denies” with his attorney calling Paul’s behavior a “years-long public crusade.”Incredibly, O’Brien seemed to cast doubt on the veracity of the diaries: “Ahead of this hearing, Paul releasing more than one thousand pages worth of what he says are diary excerpts that Fauci wrote in the early days of the pandemic.”O’Brien did read the infamous January 2020 entry voicing support for the pandemic having originated from the Wuhan lab, but argued this matched Fauci’s public comments:[Fauci] says it’s “not the source, but the amplifier” of the virus, something the senator accuses Fauci of never saying publicly although the doctor later said that in a public interview or something similar….Fauci, remember, has a preemptive pardon from former President Biden over concerns, Biden said, of possible political prosecution[.]Fact-check: Pants on fire.Grabien’s Tom Elliott noted Fauci went around to tamp down on others voicing these concerns, including with the CIA:

In this passage, Fauci recounts a “very strange” meeting with the CIA, where they presented intel pointing toward a lab leak. Fauci, clearly annoyed, calls the CIA woman presenting the findings as “pathetic in her naivety an obvious lack of appreciation of any of the science of… pic.twitter.com/My7ngQsymB— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 26, 2026

Further, Fauci was heavily involved in a now-infamous article in Nature Medicine by supposedly leading scientists to declare the virus came from a wet market with the lab-leak theory unlikely:

3 – THE PROXIMAL ORIGIN COVER-UP: Jan 31, 2020. Lead virologist Kristian Andersen privately writes that the SARS-CoV-2 genome appeared “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory” — i.e., looks engineered.His initial hypothesis, in his own words: “SARS-CoV-2 was… pic.twitter.com/URrhuSwHk0— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 7, 2026

Fauci’s media allies also denounced those invoking the possibility of a lab leak:

SUPERCUT!Media mock Trump, @TomCottonAR for “debunked” Covid lab leak theory pic.twitter.com/nb0621y2e7— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 26, 2021

SUPERCUT!Media: It’s Trump’s fault we failed to investigate China lab-leak theory pic.twitter.com/NTQwU1JU8g— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 7, 2021

Even in 2024, Fauci said the science “weighs more heavily” toward a wet market origin: 

Fauci on Covid: Lab leak is possible but evidence “weighs more heavily” in favor of animal transmission pic.twitter.com/nEsIKYW1ga— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 4, 2024

And during the hearing, Paul showed a montage of Fauci arguing on CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NewsNation, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in favor of the wet market origin.Over on NBC’s Today, senior Washington correspondent and fill-in co-host Hallie Jackson cracked open the network’s blackout by declaring: “Fauci, who helped lead the U.S. response to COVID, is appearing in front of a Senate committee, a hearing that is expected to be contentious after the public release of entries from Dr. Fauci’s personal journal.”As part of a segment tallying two minutes and 50 seconds, White House correspondent Monica Alba began by saying Fauci — who “became household name during the pandemic” — now has “his private reflection…gaining attention after a Republican Senator posted them online as part of an ongoing probe into the origins of the virus, all setting the stage for what is expected to be a fiery hearing today on Capitol Hill.”

NEW: NBC finally acknowledged the Fauci diaries with a full story on Wednesday’s ‘Today,’ insisting Fauci has been “open” “in the past…to the lab-leak theory” pic.twitter.com/NKDj6mLDJF— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 29, 2026

Like with ABC (see above) and CBS did (see here), Alba refused to go below the surface in Fauci’s narcissism and his close ties to the media. She also peddled the false claim about Fauci never having dismissed the lab-leak theory (click “expand”):ALBA: New revelations this morning from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal journal, published by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is clashed with the former infectious disease expert for years.FAUCI [on 07/20/21]: [I]f anyone is lying here, senator, it is you.ALBA: Most notably, over whether COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China, or came from a market in Wuhan featuring exotic animals.SENATOR RAND PAUL (R-KY): We put the evidence into the public sphere. So, I would just suggest that he tell the truth, and if he tells the truth, he has no liability.ALBA: In January of 2020, weeks before the world shut down, Fauci wrote, “Now we know the market was not the source., it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to human.” In the past, Fauci has said he was open to the lab-leak theory.FAUCI [on NBC’s Meet the Press, 11/27/22]: I have a completely open mind about that, despite people saying that I don’t. ALBA: Still, Senator Paul posting he’ll be asking Fauci “under subpoena” about what he calls “the COVID cover-up.”On the flip side, she did go further than ABC’s O’Brien on Fauci celebrating his levels of fame and anti-Trump punditry (click “expand”):Fauci, in the more than 1,100 release pages, also reflecting on his newfound fame, including conversations with celebrities like Barbara Streisand, who asked about vaccines and Julia Roberts, who called him her personal hero. Fauci writing, “It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous, and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable.”Throughout the entries, Fauci makes his feelings about President Trump known, calling him a “true embarrassment” and saying he was “spewing nonsense” in the weeks before the 2020 election shortly after the President had been hospitalized for COVID, and when Mr. Trump said he was “considering firing” Fauci.To see the relevant transcripts from July 29, click here (for ABC) and here (for NBC). 

The whole disgraced eco-sphere of public broadcasting continues to prove why having its tax dollars stripped was one of the most spot-on moves Congress has made in recent years.

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The Rhode Island affiliate of NPR and PBS, Ocean State Media, said the quiet part out loud by legitimizing attacking “polluters” who cause climate change. “What if polluters had to pay for the effects of climate change,” read the July 28 headline for the Possibly podcast with host Megan Hall and Nat Hardy, which is a co-produced by the left-wing Institute for Environment and Society at Brown University. The entire gist was drumming up Democrat propaganda for an insane bill in the Rhode Island General Assembly that “aims to make fossil fuel emitters pay for the impacts of climate change.” Hardy praised the legislation as a “climate superfund bill. It’s a pretty new idea to address the impacts of climate change.”Since this is “public” radio, there was no serious opposition quoted to this leftist push. This sure sounds like a slippery slope that would lead every schlub driving a gas-guzzling vehicle to be on the hook for a potential climate penalty. The bill, called the Climate Superfund Act, purports to target “large fossil fuel companies” retroactively based on arbitrary estimates of emissions released over the past thirty years. Aside from the fact that such retroactive penalization would almost assuredly spike energy costs on consumers, there are significant constitutional questions involved. These include potential violations of the Supremacy Clause under federal preemption and the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Hall and Hardy didn’t address any of this of course, and just proceeded to carry water for the dystopian overreach. As Hardy propagandized:If you caused the damage, you pay to fix it. And the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are causing the more powerful storms, heatwaves, and other impacts we’re seeing from climate change.Hall chimed in her enthusiasm for a state-level climate regulatory infrastructure: “Interesting! I didn’t realize states could do something like that.” If the constitutional problems are any indication, no they can’t, which is why similar laws passed by Vermont and New York are being put through the legal wringer via lawsuit. Hardy alluded to the lawsuits as dropping a roadblock in Rhode Island’s ambitions, but gave no description of the major constitutional issues in question. Rather, Hardy lobbed subtle ad hominems at groups protesting the legality of the bill:But we also saw testimony against the law, both from local groups, and from some national groups who represent the interests of oil and gas companies: the American Petroleum Institute and the confusingly named Consumer Energy Alliance.What this makes patently clear is that if NPR and PBS want to continue pushing this kind of climate-obsessed nonsense, they can do it on their own dime instead of the taxpayer dollar.

Far Left organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America, Code Pink, and others were revealed by the State Department’s recent report as Cuban-backed organizations. The report also details how Cuba has managed to infiltrate the United States and other countries with communism. (RELATED: The Spy Island Next Door) 
The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay dive into Rubio’s report and expand on Cuba’s underlying influence in spreading communist ideology. Melissa and Scott also discuss various models of communism from Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Mao Zedong’s CCP. They also explain current implications for the Trump administration in combating Cuba’s control. (READ MORE: The Castroist Playbook Comes to America) 
Tune in to hear their discussion!

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the House January 6 Select Committee’s transfer of approximately 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-02557)).
The lawsuit was filed after the FBI failed to comply with an October 2025 FOIA request for:

Communications of former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA) with FBI officials regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data.
All FBI records and internal communications regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data collected by the House January 6 Committee.

In February 2022, the FBI opened “Arctic Frost,” an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump campaign associates to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. The probe aggressively targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations before closing in January 2025.
A December 2023 FBI FD-302 interview summary reveals that Kinzinger proactively offered the January 6 Committee’s massive database to the FBI. The summary states:
Kinzinger stated the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (the “Select Committee”) collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data. While former Congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee, he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information, including for White House “root” or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena. Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself, but that Riggleman had identified certain telephonic connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals….
Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data. Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format, but did not know if it was the original [redacted] returns.
In October 2025, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported that “the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.”
“The FBI must stop concealing the truth. Thirty million lines of Americans’ phone records weaponized by a partisan committee and federal investigators against President Trump and his supporters represents one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The American people deserve every record — no more stonewalling.”
Judicial Watch has conducted a massive, independent investigation into the events of January 6.
On July 6, 2026, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released to Judicial Watch over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event. The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC FOIA lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here.
In August 2025, Judicial Watch announced that the U.S. Air Force would finally provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Babbitt was the only official January 6 homicide victim. The Biden administration had previously denied Babbitt and her family these honors in retaliation for being at the U.S. Capitol that day. This decision came on the heels of a massive, nearly $5 million Trump administration settlement to her family for wrongful death and other claims against the U.S. Government.
In July 2025, Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Trump was elected president in November 2024. The Biden administration, anticipating President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue pardons for January 6, 2021, defendants, is believed to have accelerated prosecutions in the final months of Biden’s term.
In March 2024, Judicial Watch received Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Justice Department in a FOIA lawsuit that showed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
In October 2023, Judicial Watch received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.
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Francesca Hong, the Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, is no ‘sewer socialist,’ unless that term no longer has meaning.

Rep. Summer Lee’s (D., Pa.) office has improperly used House resources and the notorious Instagram account “Dear White Staffers” for campaign and political activity, according to a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee on July 22.
The complaint—filed by one of Lee’s concerned constituents—demands that Philip Bennett, Lee’s director of operations, be probed for using “Dear White Staffers” to advocate on behalf of preferred progressive candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed and broadly engage in “conduct not reflecting creditably on the House.”
The complaint did not allege that Lee—a member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D., N.Y.) far-left “squad”—specifically performed any improper act, but named her as a target anyway given that every “member is responsible for ensuring that employees are aware of and adhere to House rules and that House resources are used for proper purposes.”
The controversial “Dear White Staffers” account—originally an anonymous space for junior congressional staff to grouse—is now controlled by Bennett, who regularly spews progressive, virulently anti-Israel invective to its close to half a million Instagram followers. Earlier this month, “Dear White Staffers” called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to kill anyone in the Epstein files—an exhortation which features prominently in the ethics complaint.
“On or about July 14, 2026, the account copublished—via Instagram’s ‘collaborator’ feature, which jointly credits and displays a post on both accounts—a post by activist Ariana Jasmine stating a desire for ‘my tax dollars to be used for ICE to hunt down and [shoot]/[kill] the people in the Epstein files, not random immigrants,’ followed by ‘I said what I said’ and a dare to sue. By copublishing and adopting this post to an audience of roughly 380,000 followers, the account amplified a call for federal agents to carry out extrajudicial killings,” the complaint notes—significantly undercounting the account’s actual number of followers.
“Regardless of whether the words were originally the collaborator’s, associating the operative of a House office with the promotion of extrajudicial violence, does not reflect creditably on the House within the meaning of House Rule XXIII, clause 1, which requires that Members, officers, and employees behave ‘at all times’ in a manner that reflects creditably on the House.”
In the days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, which left 1,200 dead, Bennett himself immediately joined in “ceasefire” protests which broke out in progressive spaces around the country—even boasting about being arrested in an Oct. 20, 2023, interview with the New Arab.
“It was really powerful. I didn’t have any plan. I was arrested with all of them. I was in my work clothes. They were wearing matching T-shirts,” Bennett said of the moment.
Elsewhere, the complaint cited the account’s open advocacy on behalf of liberal candidates including Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and William Lawrence, an anti-Israel activist now running for Congress in Michigan’s seventh district.
“House rules prohibit using official resources — House-issued equipment, House networks, and official staff time — for campaign or political purposes, whether for the Member’s own campaign or any other candidate, and whether to support or oppose. The account is reported to be operated by a full-time Director of Operations and posts throughout the standard workday,” the complaint notes.
The ethics issues were reported to the committee by Jeremy Kazzaz, a Pittsburgh resident and Lee constituent. Kazzaz is also a cofounder of the Beacon Coalition, a Jewish issues nonprofit that fights antisemitism (with no affiliation to the Washington Free Beacon). Lee, whose district includes Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life synagogue, site of the 2018 massacre of Jewish congregants, has been accused by Pittsburgh rabbis of “openly antisemitic” rhetoric.
Indeed, during her time in the House, Rep. Lee has also made a name for herself as one of its most anti-Israel members. In October 2023, after Hamas’s slaughter, Lee voted against a bipartisan resolution stating that the House of Representatives “stands with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists.”
A month later, she voted against another resolution condemning support for terrorism on college campuses.
In February 2024 Lee spoke at a banquet for the Council on American-Islamic Relations—which multiple states have designated as a terrorist organization. She has also appeared with social media influencer Hasan Piker, who infamously said “America deserved 9/11” and once called Jews “inbred.”
“I think that it’s important that we know we have transparency into what’s going on in DC, and I think this account has grown increasingly extreme, and as far as how much it campaigns for members and embrace of political violence, and attacking sitting members of Congress directly,” Kazzaz told the Free Beacon when asked why he submitted the complaint.
A representative for the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on the status of the probe. Rep. Lee’s office did not respond to requests for comment from the Free Beacon.
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Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour & Company, welcomed author and activist Bill McKibben to Tuesday’s show to partake in the latest doom-and-gloom prognostications on the environment. According to McKibben, climate change is mostly former President Ronald Reagan’s fault and any additional blame should be directed at President Trump for engaging in “economic-self sabotage.”Towards the end of their discussion, Amanpour invited McKibben to “Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people back then? Tell the American people?” PBS’s Christiane Amanpour asks environmental activist Bill McKibben, “Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people… pic.twitter.com/RM2zAWeLOm— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 29, 2026 McKibben mourned, “What he told people was that the sun was, in fact, the future. And in his last budget, he put aside another R&D money that the plan was for America to be producing 20 percent of its power from the sun by the year 2000. Had we done that, we would live in a very different world today, a much cooler one, because this renewable revolution would have been pushed forward several decades.”Lamenting Reagan’s election, McKibben continued, “Instead, of course, Ronald Reagan was elected over Mr. Carter, and he took down those solar panels from the White House roof. More importantly, he took that money out of the budget and locked us into this cycle of endless drilling for more oil that’s come to define not only America’s economy, but America’s politics.”McKibben then fast-forwarded to Trump, “As you know, Donald Trump has said his plan is to exert energy dominance across the earth by America’s control of oil and gas. I don’t think that’s going to work, but I do think it runs the very strong risk of turning America into a kind of theme park of internal combustion, while the rest of the world gets its act together very quickly.”He also claimed, “We’re being left behind, and I’m not sure there’s ever been a kind of act of national economic self-sabotage to compare with the last 18 months. The country that invented the solar panel and the industrial wind turbine and the lithium-ion battery is now the country ceding all of that advantage to our theoretical chief adversary.”By “our theoretical chief adversary,” McKibben was referring to China, which is interesting because the U.S. and China’s CO₂ emissions per capita data lines have gone in opposite directions since 2000, and China’s is the one that is steadily going up.Here is a transcript for the July 28 show:PBS Amanpour and Company7/28/2026CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people back then? Tell the American people?BILL MCKIBBEN: What he told people was that the sun was, in fact, the future. And in his last budget, he put aside another R&D money that the plan was for America to be producing 20 percent of its power from the sun by the year 2000. Had we done that, we would live in a very different world today, a much cooler one, because this renewable revolution would have been pushed forward several decades. Instead, of course, Ronald Reagan was elected over Mr. Carter, and he took down those solar panels from the White House roof. More importantly, he took that money out of the budget and locked us into this cycle of endless drilling for more oil that’s come to define not only America’s economy, but America’s politics. As you know, Donald Trump has said his plan is to exert energy dominance across the earth by America’s control of oil and gas. I don’t think that’s going to work, but I do think it runs the very strong risk of turning America into a kind of theme park of internal combustion, while the rest of the world gets its act together very quickly.We’re being left behind, and I’m not sure there’s ever been a kind of act of national economic self-sabotage to compare with the last 18 months. The country that invented the solar panel and the industrial wind turbine and the lithium-ion battery is now the country ceding all of that advantage to our theoretical chief adversary.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who had heretofore never met a microphone from which he wished to social distance, refused to answer the questions of U.S. senators on Wednesday morning.
A cowered Fauci, who spent years ginning up fear in the United States regarding Covid-19, appeared before Congress afraid to answer basic questions.
“You can sit for In Style magazine,” a frustrated Hawley told Fauci, “but you can’t answer questions for the American people.”
The longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) thereby joined mobster Frank Costello, communist Howard Da Silva, and bribed Teapot Dome Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall in invoking the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions from elected officials.
Questions about whether he shielded work-related communications from public scrutiny by sending and receiving messages on personal devices and accounts or eventually dismissed the theory that he publicly touted of the Wuhan wet-market as the source of Covid yielded the same answer: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”
Even when Senator Josh Hawley (R—Mo.) asked the color of his tie and the day of the week, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment. Hawley raised the issue of contempt based on the reasoning that his pardon in the last hours of the Biden Administration made the Fifth Amendment moot in this case.
Senator Rand Paul (R—Ky.) ejected criminal defense attorney David Schertler early in the hearing when he attempted to make Fauci’s case as his client simultaneously invoked his right to remain silent. Paul later explained, “In no courtroom in America can you have your witness plead the Fifth Amendment, then your attorney gets to testify.”
Republican senators ranged from the respectful in Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to the profane in Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who used the f-word and the s-word in his questions and statements to Fauci.
Incurious Democrats refused to ask questions in the same rote manner that Fauci refused to answer them. “Dr. Fauci has saved lives,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) declared. Sen. Andy Kim (D.—N.J.) quoted from Theodore Roosevelt’s man-in-the-arena passage and maintained, “The public servants do this work because they love this country.” Others in filibustering their allotted times invoked such boogeymen as Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joseph McCarthy, and antivaxxers.
The publication of Fauci’s diary, which showed contradictions between his public pronouncements and his private beliefs, necessitated Wednesday’s hearing. Fauci’s claims of fatality rates dramatically higher than influenza in the early days of Covid when he lacked the denominator of cases (and his diary indicated that he knew the falseness of the inflated claims), grants awarded to Chinese doctors who described in published papers conducting gain-of-function research illegal to federally fund under U.S. law, and alleged self-dealing all went unaddressed.
“You can sit for In Style magazine,” a frustrated Hawley told Fauci, “but you can’t answer questions for the American people.”
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