Trump adviser Stephen Miller delivered a blistering rebuke of Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Fox News appearance, accusing the longtime bureaucrat and his media allies of vilifying President Donald Trump for challenging the COVID orthodoxy.
Earlier that day, Fauci, the former NIAID director and public face of the federal governments widely criticized pandemic response, appeared under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. According to Gateway Pundit, the once omnipresent media figure who eagerly courted celebrity during COVID invoked the Fifth Amendment in his opening statement and refused to address his role in policies that devastated the economy, shuttered schools, and eroded civil liberties.
Fauci ultimately pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times, stonewalling senators and prompting Senator Rand Paul to move to hold him in contempt of Congress. The Kentucky Republican later announced that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a vote to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer any questions during the hearing.
Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump, seized on Faucis silence as proof that the so?called experts were never prepared to defend their decisions in open debate. Trump was the one who questioned the origins of COVID. President Trump is the one who questioned the need for requiring every single American to be tested over and over and over again! Stephen Miller said.
Hes the one who questioned whether we should require children and healthy adults to be subject to restrictions for an illness that primarily targets the elderly, Miller said. He fought to reopen the government. And if you remember the Biden campaign in 2020 spent hundreds of millions of dollars demonizing president Trump for fighting to keep America safe to open, Miller said.
At every single step every day the news cycle was the so-called health care establishment attacking President Trump for questioning the experts, he said. With Fauci now repeatedly invoking the Fifth and facing a looming contempt vote, conservatives argue that the public may finally see some accountability for the unelected officials whose decisions upended American life while punishing a President who dared to challenge them.
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