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TMZ Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) attacks against Dr. Anthony Fauci are a “heartbreaking” callback to McCarthyism, TMZ’s Harvey Levin said Wednesday after Paul chaired a highly contentious Senate hearing with Fauci. Fauci’s hearing was marked by dozens of instances of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases pleading the Fifth Amendment, something Levin immediately referenced. “Anthony Fauci before a congressional hearing taking the Fifth Amendment is just one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen in government in my lifetime, and this is something we need to reckon with,” he said. Levin also said he has “problems with how the CDC handled COVID,” but that doesn’t justify what’s happening. Fauci’s years as a “dedicated public servant” go back decades, he added. In the ’80s, I had many friends who died of AIDS—a horrible, painful death—and I had friends who lived because of Anthony Fauci, because he was willing to look at experimental drugs in a different way than they had looked at them before, and that really resulted in lives saved. And he has done so many other things in his career to thwart epidemics to save lives, not just in the United States, but all over the world. He has been a dedicated public servant who could have made a lot more money outside of government than inside, but he stays, and now we are at a point where members of Congress, and yes, you, Rand Paul, are on a witch hunt. Levin also insisted the purpose of the hearing is Paul’s focus on putting Fauci “in a jail cell.” “There is no other point of this hearing. There could be. I mean, there are things they could certainly ask him, but he can’t answer because if he answers, it doesn’t matter what he says,” Levin added. “You know, if you can prosecute somebody for fricking seashells on the beach shore, then you could certainly prosecute somebody for what they say in a congressional hearing, and that’s the climate we’re in. We are in a Senator Joseph McCarthy climate.” TMZ's Harvey Levin calls the attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s witnessed in government, comparing the push to jail him to the fear and persecution of the McCarthy era. pic.twitter.com/NavLyfEC4S — TMZ (@TMZ) July 29, 2026 Watch the above via TMZ.The post TMZ’s Harvey… [TheTopNews] Read More.28 mins ago - Fox’s Turley Warns It’s a ‘Murky Area’ For Rand Paul to Try to Hold Fauc...
Fox News contributor and legal analyst Jonathan Turley warned Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is getting into a “murky area” with his threat to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. Turley joined Fox News’ Harris Faulkner on Wednesday following a fiery hearing with Fauci where he invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege more than 100 times, refusing to answer questions on the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown measures, his actions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and more. Paul wrapped up the hearing by announcing a vote was being scheduled for next week to hold Fauci in contempt. According to Paul, Fauci’s Fifth Amendment answers were “unsupported” because he gave an opening statement and because of his presidential pardon. Turley, an attorney and legal analyst, argued Paul framed his final questions well because he asked Fauci about a period before he was pardoned. He said: Well, Harris, this is a bit of a murky question with regard to the impact of a presidential pardon. His attorneys are probably on good ground that the courts are likely to adopt an expansive view of the pardon in terms of its protection but also allow him to avoid any further culpability by invoking the privilege, that the pardon would not extinguish that ability. But really the tough moment for him came at the end when Senator Paul crafted a question that said, I’m asking you this question within the limits of the period of your pardon. That was a very important framing because he is saying, I’m not asking you to say anything after the pardon where he could obviously claim privilege. I’m talking about the period before which you were pardoned. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig also weighed in over on his network about Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment, saying he’s “probably within his rights.” Turley added that Paul’s final question “will present this in the clearest way to the court. Now it was also raised whether he might have waived his privilege because he made a long statement, a relatively long statement before the invocation. That’s also a type of murky area.” Turley believes ultimately the legal questions present a grey area that will need “have to be resolved in the courts.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Fox’s Turley Warns It’s a ‘Murky Area’ For Rand Paul to Try to Hold Fauci In Contempt of… [TheTopNews] Read More.44 mins ago - ‘Did He Partner With China?’ GOP Senator Asks Fauci If Bill Gates Had a Role...Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) pelted Dr. Anthony Fauci with a number of questions on Bill Gates and his role in the government’s response to Covid-19 — including whether Gates had worked with China on “sensitive” research — during a Wednesday Senate hearing. Scott rattled off 23 questions for Fauci during his allotted time, and the doctor refused to answer all of them. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right each time Scott hit him with a question, including the eight questions Scott asked him about the Microsoft co-founder. “To your knowledge, did he partner with China on sensitive research?” Scott asked. Fauci declined to answer. “Specifically, did Bill use research such as countermeasures or gain of function?” Scott asked. Fauci declined to answer. The doc did the same thing for questions on how much Gates donated to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whether Gates had an active security clearance, and whether Gates was connected to classified government programs. Gates and Fauci’s relationship goes back years. The doctor was a member of a science board partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation starting in 2003, and in 2010 he joined a project the foundation and health organizations like the WHO worked on to create a “Global Vaccine Action Plan.” Gates later said he and Fauci frequently talked during the pandemic. Scott’s questions about Gates were lumped into the middle of his series of inquiries. He wrapped up his 5 minutes of unanswered questions by asking Fauci about the pardon he received from Ex-President Joe Biden. “Given the culture of pay-to-play in NIAID, did you or anyone acting on your behalf make any payment or enter any arrangement in any way or fashion to secure or influence the broad influence you received from President Biden?” Scott asked. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment. Watch above via Fox News.The post ‘Did He Partner With China?’ GOP Senator Asks Fauci If Bill Gates Had a Role in Covid Pandemic first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago
- Democratic Senator Calls Fauci Hearing ‘One of the Darkest Days in Our Senateâ...Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Capitol Hill Wednesday marks on one of the “darkest” days in the history of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) declared. Blumenthal ripped Republicans in the Senate for being “eager to rebrand” Fauci “as a villain.” Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination dozens of time during his hours-long appearance Wednesday, despite having been preemptively pardoned by then-President Joe Biden last January. The hearing, Blumenthal said, “is the culmination of a year’s long crusade that started six years ago when Dr. Fauci dared to contradict President Trump:” I want to go back to the dark days of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the darkest days or times in our history. Hospitals were overflowing, Navy medical ships were docked in the Hudson River. Emergency rooms were forced into unprecedented triaging during the worst week of the pandemic, which happens to have been the last week of President Trump’s first term, more than 25,000 Americans died of Covid-19. Easy to forget those dark days. For the past 18 months the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history and today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort. One of the darkest days in our Senate’s history. The Trump administration has launched a baseless set of smears against vaccines that helped pull us out of that public health crisis, vaccines that are undoubtedly President Trump’s greatest accomplishment. It has slashed funding to local public health departments that were on the front lines of the pandemic and those healthcare workers are heroes. It has disparaged those heroes at woke or wasteful and it has used a politicized department of justice to target the researchers who helped us track and understand the novel virus. Today’s hearing is another page in that playbook, sadly, tragically. Dr. Fauci, you have spent five decades in public service including nearly four decades in leadership at the National Institutes of Health helping to conquer Covid-19 but also HIV, swine flu, ebola and other epidemics with real-life results saving human lives. Watch above via Fox News.The post Democratic Senator Calls Fauci Hearing ‘One of the Darkest Days in Our Senate’s History’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- NEW: Rand Paul Sets Vote to Hold Dr. Fauci In Contempt of CongressSen. Rand Paul (R-KY) scheduled a vote to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions at a Senate hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment right dozens of times. Fauci appeared before the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday where he refused to answer any questions as he was grilled on everything from his now-released Covid-era diary, the origins of Covid, to lockdown measures taken during the pandemic. Paul came out swinging in the hearing, accusing Fauci of tarnishing his legacy and “aiding and abetting the crime” of lockdowns. The senator, who chaired the committee hearing, later threw out Fauci’s lawyer after multiple interruptions. The senator wrapped up the hearing by giving the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases one more opportunity to answer questions. Paul argued that Fauci’s Fifth Amendment answers were “unsupported” because of his presidential pardon and the fact that he did testify with an opening statement — in which he accused Paul of having an “unhinged obsession” with him. CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig argued during the hearing that Fauci is “probably within his rights” to invoke the Fifth Amendment, but Paul and other Republicans disagree. Paul informed Fauci that there will be a vote next week on whether to hold him in contempt. Check out the exchange below: RAND PAUL: Let’s be clear today about what we’ve seen. I really did want to hear from Dr. Fauci. I wanted to hear perhaps an apology, perhaps some semblance of being sorry for what happened or that judgment errors were made. We didn’t hear any of that. But he was subpoenaed here to testify. H refused to answer questions even directed by the chair and being advised of the law requiring him to do so. He has cited a privilege that is unsupported because of his blanket pardon and because he waived the privilege by testifying at the start. I’m going to give you one more opportunity to comply with the law. Limited to the period of your pardon, at any point between January 1, 2014 and January 1, 2014 and January 19th, 2025, did you destroy any federal record or tell anybody else to? ANTHONY FAUCI: Under the advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. PAUL: Given that you have… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- GOP Senator Tries — and Fails — to Get Fauci to Stop Pleading the Fifth Befo...Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) tried getting Dr. Anthony Fauci to not plead the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday by asking him a series of basic questions. Fauci testified before Congress a few days after his 2020 diary entries were released to the public. During Wednesday’s hearing, the former Chief Medical Advisor to the President was relentlessly grilled by Republican members of Congress for his guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic. In response to all of their questions, Fauci simply declined to answer by pleading the Fifth. When it was Hawley’s turn to question him, he decided to test Fauci’s commitment to the Fifth Amendment strategy by asking him a series of harmless questions. The exchange went as follows: HAWLEY: Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth, huh, doc? Let’s try something. What day of the week is it today? FAUCI: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. HAWLEY: What color tie are you wearing? FAUCI: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. HAWLEY: What color is the carpet in front of you? FAUCI: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Moments later, Hawley claimed Fauci didn’t want to answer questions because he “did all kinds of terrible things” and “got rich” during the pandemic. “You got rich while people were dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans — over a million in the end — and you were getting rich,” Hawley said. “And not only were you doing that, you were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes — for you, personally — cash prizes totaling over a million dollars. You did all of that during the pandemic, didn’t you? That’s a question.” Fauci again declined to answer. Watch above via Fox NewsThe post GOP Senator Tries — and Fails — to Get Fauci to Stop Pleading the Fifth Before Accusing Him of Money-Making Scheme first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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