Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime public health bureaucrat who became the face of Americas catastrophic COVID-19 response, appeared under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and immediately refused to answer questions.
According to The Gateway Pundit, the hearing, formally titled Testimony of Anthony Fauci, convened at 8:30 a.m. ET on July 29 in Room SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building after months of wrangling over Faucis appearance. Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ultimately issued a subpoena when Fauci first agreed to testify and then backed out, later declaring, He will testify in July, as conservatives pressed for long-delayed accountability.
Once seated, Fauci promptly invoked his Fifth Amendment right and declined to provide substantive testimony, a move that stunned many who have watched him dominate media coverage for years while insisting he had nothing to hide. His refusal to answer questions only intensified suspicions among critics who argue that the architect of lockdowns, school closures, and sweeping mandates is now running from the record he helped create.
This is the same Fauci who told Congress under oath that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite mounting documentation that U.S. taxpayer dollars supported risky experiments there. It is also the same Fauci who derided the lab-leak explanation as a conspiracy even as private notes and emails revealed early worries among scientists about engineered features in the virus.
As reported, Fauci departed Washington under the protection of a sweeping federal pardon from Joe Biden, a move that conservatives saw as a preemptive shield against future legal exposure. Yet for many Americans who endured shuttered businesses, lost livelihoods, and coerced medical decisions, that pardon only underscores how unaccountable the federal health bureaucracy became during the pandemic.
Critics argue that virtually every major position Fauci advancedfrom extended school closures to mask mandates and vaccine coercionhas collapsed under real-world data and subsequent studies. They contend that Fauci didnt care, insisting the wicked man knew he had to hide his involvement in funding the studies that resulted in the lab leak in Wuhan, China.
On Wednesday morning, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna escalated the push for accountability by urging state-level action against the man she labeled Dr. Mengele Fauci. Dr. Mengele Fauci may be protected by a federal pardon but that does not hold against state prosecution and civil lawsuits, she declared, calling for a new front in the legal battle.
I am calling on the great Attorneys General and Governors of FL, TX, WV, and AR to bring charges against Fauci for crimes against children in exposing them to a vaccine that has now been PROVEN to hurt people, Luna said, arguing that federal immunity cannot erase the damage done. He is and will go down in history as one of the darkest souls who has ever been in federal government, she added, framing Faucis legacy as a moral and legal stain on the nation.
There is NO JUSTICE unless he is held responsible for the crimes HE committed against HUMANITY, Luna insisted, reflecting a growing sentiment on the right that the COVID era cannot be closed without real consequences for those who drove its most extreme policies. Even as Democrats on the committee rushed to defend Fauci and minimize his record, conservatives maintained that his many lies and actions resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and that only rigorous investigationfederal and statecan restore public trust in science and government.
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