Flashback: Fauci’s Confident Promise Comes Back to Haunt Him

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“I have nothing to hide.” Anthony Fauci said it to CNN in 2022, when Republicans were promising investigations into the government’s handling of COVID-19. He seemed almost eager for the encounter. “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee,” he said. “I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.” Four years later, the committee arrived. Fauci did too. The explanations did not. Appearing Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, according to Fox News Digital. Again and again, senators asked about COVID’s origins, gain-of-function research, school

Anthony Fauci Takes the Fifth 111 Times During Senate Hearing

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Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 110 times during Wednesday’s Senate hearing, refusing to answer Republican lawmakers on the origins of COVID-19, funding for research in Wuhan, his communications with former NIAID adviser David Morens, EcoHealth Alliance, federal recordkeeping, and his handling of the pandemic. To every question, the answer was the same: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” It didn’t end there. At the close of the hearing, committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced that the panel will vote

Biden Tapes Expose the Men Who Guarded the Myth

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Newly released recordings from Joe Biden’s conversations with Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” have been released by the Oversight Project after a long public-records battle. They contain the sort of pauses and lapses that Washington spent years teaching Americans not to notice. “I’ll think of his name,” Biden said during an April 2017 conversation after forgetting two economic advisers. “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.” Zwonitzer eventually supplied one of the names: Alan Krueger, a prominent White House economist. Elsewhere, Biden struggled to recall the name of a fallen

Trump Forces a Choice Between Tradition and Power

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In a pair of Sunday posts, President Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep the Senate in Washington until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act. Better yet, he said, they should end the filibuster and use their majority while they still have one. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump wrote in a statement shared by Trump War Room. It was vintage Trump. Urgent, impatient and entirely uninterested in the Senate’s affection for its own traditions. The president

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