What hath the Fauch wrought?

 Anthony Fauci proves why Republicans must win the midterms - American Thinker   "Anthony Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for almost 40 years. Today, he stands as the embodiment of a bureaucracy that answers to no one."

. . . "Accountability ends if Democrats seize one or both houses of Congress this autumn. They will block Republican inquiries, shield blue officials who misled America, and champion elite immunity. GOP voters should see that showing up at the polls is vital. It is the only way to prevent a return to the Democratic system of deception and impunity that has already cost the nation so much." . . .

Fauci's 5th   . . . "Fauci repeated the phrase, “on the advice of my counselor…” no less than 111 times, each repetition digging himself deeper into ignominy. The peak was unquestionably reached with Sen. Josh Hawley, who treated Fauci with all the mockery and contempt he had coming with a series of questions that nobody but a fool could ever take as incriminating. “What color is your tie?” “What color is the carpet in front of you?” Each time, Fauci answered like a robot. Hawley concluded by telling him to his face that he deserved prison." . . .

The contemptible MSNOW used Hawley's questions to denigrate the Republicans as expected.

Fifth Amendment Fauci’s Narcissism Destroyed Faith in Scientific Methodology . . . "Consider the six-foot social distancing rule. When pressed on the empirical basis for closing schools, shuttering businesses, and putting one-way arrows on grocery store floors, Fauci admitted during sworn testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on January 24 that the rule “just sort of appeared,” with no rigorous clinical trials or controlled studies behind it. It was, in his own words, an empirical decision, not grounded in solid data. Millions of children lost years of developmental and educational progress. Small businesses went under. Families were torn apart — over a metric that had essentially been made up." . . .

Don’t Forget How Florida Defeated ‘Faucism’ and Vindicated Federalism

"I would know: I moved to Florida in 2021 in no small part due to the way Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) handled COVID-19."

. . . "One-size-fits-all bureaucratic governance from the nation’s capital is incompatible with American constitutionalism and the American way of life. As James Madison put it in The Federalist No. 45: “The powers … which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis put it memorably in a 1932 Supreme Court dissent: “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.'”  "That’s exactly what Florida under DeSantis did."

California's gas taxes keep climbing. Highway performance doesn't.

"Each gas tax increase asks Californians to pay more for a highway system that continues to underperform."

Reason Foundation.   

California’s Interstate pavement is also rough, ranking among the worst: 48th out of 50 urban pavement conditions and 47th in rural pavement conditions. 

"Californians already pay the nation’s highest fuel tax. On July 1, the state fuel tax rose again, by another 2.2 cents to 63.4 cents per gallon under a state law’s annual inflation adjustment.

"Inflation raises the costs of asphalt, steel, and labor, so a modest yearly adjustment to maintain and build roads and bridges is reasonable, in theory. Unfortunately, drivers aren’t getting their money’s worth in California. Despite annual increases in the state fuel tax, California’s highways are getting worse, not better.

"In California, roughly $1.15 of every gallon of fuel purchased goes to federal and state taxes, generating more than $14 billion for transportation in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. This is far more revenue than second-place Texas collects, even though it has a larger state highway network, and should be enough to maintain roads and bridges properly.

"Instead, California has the nation’s second-worst-performing, least cost-effective highway system, according to Reason Foundation’s 29th Annual Highway Report, which compares spending, pavement quality, road safety and other measures across all 50 states. California ranks 49th in overall highway performance and cost-effectiveness, only ahead of Alaska, which faces numerous weather and geographic challenges." . . . More...

The Media Takes the Fifth and Denounces Those Questioning Fauci as an “Assault on Science”

 JONATHAN TURLEY  

They are now claiming victimization in being asked to account for evidence that they were wrong. As Dr. Scott Atlas has laid out, many of those who abused dissenting scientists faced no repercussions after those scientists were largely vindicated in later research.

"As I wrote yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci was not the only one taking the Fifth yesterday on his record during the pandemic. The media effectively invoked the same privilege to avoid self-incrimination for their years of deifying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Across the cable networks, hosts and guests were going into vapors as Republican senators pummelled Fauci over his COVID policies and the glaring contradictions found in his diary entries. Some, like Dr. Scott Ratzan, echoed Fauci’s own prior claim that any questioning of his judgment was an attack on science.

"Once again, Fauci had every right to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. That does not mean that it was the right thing to do. Fauci already had a pardon that notably extended back to 2014 when his agency approved gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China. Any prosecution would be difficult in light of the pardon. It would not be impossible since he could be charged with perjury for any false statements. Yet, that was the same threat that existed during countless prior hearings for Fauci.

"So what was the difference now? The answer is found in diary entries and other evidence that contradicts Fauci’s public statements on subjects ranging from the lab theory to school closures. It is not that Fauci would have been tripped into false answers but that he did not have any obvious answers to some of these criticisms.

"Instead, Fauci invoked the privilege 111 times. That fell short of Vito Genovese’s record, who invoked the privilege 150 times." . . .

. . . "It was a maddening statement, repeated by many, that treated Fauci as inviolate, if not infallible. Fauci was wrong about issues that produced tragic costs for this country. When confronted about policies such as school closures, he insisted he had never recommended them while privately admitting he had." . . .

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Give land back to ‘original owners,’ or shut up

 Silvio Canto, Jr.   

 "Another opening ceremony and another land acknowledgment about how we are doing business on land stolen from this nation or that nation. It’s the way it is whenever the liberals want to celebrate a new presidential library or a new bridge like this one between Michigan and Ontario."

. . . "What we have done with the land? Well, we built a prosperous nation on the land with more respect for the rule of law than whatever was here before. Did the nation that “owned” this land allow its own people to speak about how the land was stolen by them from another nation? It probably was because there is no original owner of the land. Again, the nation that we remember today very likely stole it from another nation. Sorry, but that’s history!

"The real problem is that these acknowledgments are starting to get old and just obnoxious. So stop talking about it and do something tangible. Give the keys and title of “the stolen land” to the original owners. Let them charge tolls on the bridge or do whatever they want to do. Give the nation a seat in the U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade agreement so they can profit from whatever crosses that bridge from that “stolen land.”

"Come on, do it or stop talking about it!" . . .

Crow Tribe History, Culture, and Facts - History Keen   The Sioux were in the area of the Little Bighorn because they had taken that land away from the Crow tribes.

Fight between Crows and Sioux, Indian Peoples Digital Image Database Object Description - Montana State University Library

Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Strategy May Not End the Investigation |

 Miranda Devine: Anthony Fauci was the ‘big head’ of COVID response

"As the global death toll mounted, Fauci’s diary shows he was increasingly preoccupied with his rising media profile and reveling in the admiration, especially the praise from celebrities, all of which he meticulously ­recorded."

Cartoon - American Thinker Fauci emerges from the diary entries as a frivolous narcissist, possibly corrupt and
 a really bad speller (for example, “dyswaded” for dissuaded).

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"And remember, that pardon only covers Fauci’s conduct through last January. Once he’s forced to testify … anything he says is fair game for examination as perjury."

. . . "Litigating the order to compel Fauci’s testimony and force him to stop invoking the Fifth Amendment gets interesting right away. The Fifth only holds as a protection against the committee’s subpoena where Fauci has a reasonable fear of prosecution. If Biden’s pardon is worth the paper it’s printed on, then there is no self-incrimination argument and Fauci has to testify.

"What would be highly interesting is if Fauci’s lawyers were to argue that Biden’s pardon of their client is problematic based on the fact it was an autopen pardon from a non compos mentis president — my characterization, obviously, but theirs would have to read somewhat similarly. That would be their most direct defense of his Fifth Amendment privilege, but it would also be politically devastating for the Democrats, and at that point it would start to be interesting to see who might turn on him. I am not suggesting they would do this, but it’s conceivable — especially if Camp Fauci thinks that his contradictory statements put him at a greater disadvantage than does his underlying conduct.

"Either way, in this scenario, you get a ruling from the judge, and the wheels begin to turn. Clearly, Fauci’s Fifth Amendment invocation isn’t appropriate when Sen. Josh Hawley asks what color his tie is, so there is almost certainly going to be a ruling compelling some testimony not covered by Fifth Amendment privilege." . . . More...

Omertà - Don Surber  

. . . "So the rule of law is Democrat presidents can go after political enemies, while protecting lawbreaking Cabinet officials from facing justice. Republican presidents face dealing with passive-aggressive Republican Congresses whose members would rather be in the minority than actually do the work of a majority Congress.

Which leads to Wednesday’s Senate committee hearing—chaired by Senator Rand Paul—into the trillion-dollar covid catastrophe caused by Tony Fauci, whom Reagan brought to Washington to find a cure for AIDS. Over the course of 40 years, Fauci built a bureaucratic empire and ingratiated himself among the politicians, celebrities and press gaggles of DC. Barbra Streisand had him on speed dial.

(People. People who need fascists are the ugliest people in the world.)

Fauci never did find that cure—despite torturing beagles such s having Tunisian sandflies bite them and cutting off their vocal cords, a debarking, a cordectomy. But he retired to a pension larger than a presidential salary and pocketed all sorts of deals including a $5 million book advance for a book that sold less than 100,000 copies.

"Rand Paul is no dummy. He knew that Fauci is a liar who would never talk under oath even with the prosecutorial immunity of a presidential pardon—regardless of who actually signed it."

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Denying the Holocaust: Deborah Lipstadt, Revisited

"Written 30 years ago, the modern Democrat party is making the information as relevant as ever."

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

American Thinker  

"What revisionism cannot do, Lipstadt affirms, is change the facts, ignore the truth, or lie about the evidence itself. Holocaust deniers routinely engage in those vile practices.

"Over 30 years ago, historian and social critic Deborah Lipstadt wrote a powerful book, Denying the Holocaust, warning the public about the dangers of this pernicious ideology. This year, I was drawn to this book because debates are raging again, this time amplifying across social media, about the truth of World War II, what happened in the death camps, and how we sift out the truth from the lies.

"I wasn’t expecting to agree with her on everything. She’s an unabashed liberal, progressive, even. Her ideological bent was crystal clear when President Joe Biden nominated her as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in 2022, for which she received unanimous confirmation. During her confirmation hearing, Republican members confronted her over a number of incendiary, inflammatory, even libelous statements that she had published about them as well as then former president Donald Trump. One of her targets, Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, confronted her about her nasty remarks directed at him over the January 6th incident. She didn’t look very good trying to defend the indefensible, and she eventually apologized.  She ultimately got the job because Democrats controlled the Senate at the time, and no one wanted to appear opposing the fight against antisemitism, no matter the appointment.

"Despite her current left-wing bent, Lipstadt is a fierce defender of freedom of speech. During an Oxford Union speech in 2016, she declared that Holocaust deniers should have the freedom of speech, including the right to lie about history. However, historians must have the right to call them out for their dishonesty, too.

"Even though Lipstadt wrote the book three decades ago, her research into the Denialist industry and the tactics used by the Deniers come off as very current. Indeed, underneath the surface of seeming scholarship and respectability, one finds a morass of bitterness and bigotry against a group of people. Their relentless determination to blame Jews for all the ills of the world comes out page after page among Holocaust deniers, even if they have Ph.Ds. and claim that their works are exhaustive research.

"Before talking about specific deniers—institutions and individuals—Lipstadt announces in her first chapter that she refuses to debate Holocaust deniers. They are repugnant not merely for holding noxious views, but for their deliberate refusal to recognize the copious archives, research, and data affirming the horrific systemic slaughter of six million Jews under Hitler’s Third Reich. In her view, a debate with a denier is to legitimize their views as serious scholarship or opinion.

"Throughout her book, I reflected on that notion, and I found that it does have some merit. You don’t debate people who have no serious regard for truth, evidence, integrity, or process. Why give them a platform? Then again, the survivors, the historians, the archivists all have a responsibility to debunk the lies and keep telling the truth." . . . More.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Took Extra Measures to Ensure the Holocaust Was Never Forgotten | War History Online

Combating Holocaust Denial: Origins of Holocaust Denial | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Talarico: Everything I Needed to Know About Christianity I Learned From ...

 HotAir   "For a man who went to a Presbyterian seminary, James Talarico sounds very Unitarian. If that. 

"I'll be honest in tackling this with a certain amount of reluctance. People can come to Christianity, and especially Catholicism, through a variety of sources. To some extent, Christians can profit from outside philosophical resources, principally from Greek and Roman sources. When it comes to theology, however, risks escalate rapidly of becoming so flexible as to be heretical. 

"Of course, that assumes a level of honesty that likely doesn't exist in this statement from Talarico:" . . .

"The Daily Wire picked this up earlier in the week as well:

On the campaign trail, Democrat candidate James Talarico often describes his faith as “biblical Christianity.” But the Senate hopeful once credited Islamic mystics with shaping his faith just as much as Christian writers, audio unearthed by The Daily Wire reveals.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Talarico asserted that his faith was rooted in “biblical Christianity.” During an appearance on The State of Belief podcast in April 2024 alongside Muslim state Rep. Salman Bhojani, Talarico praised Islam for shaping his religious beliefs. Those comments could come into play as debate heats up in Texas about Islam’s growing presence in the state. 

“I know personally that I’ve learned as much about my faith from Salman’s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers,” he said. “This kind of interfaith dialogue, it doesn’t water down your tradition, in fact it strengthens it, it brings out new flavors and new colors.”. . .  HotAir

Patricia Heaton joins calls to ban Mamdani from 9/11 remembrance ceremony

‘He hasn’t hid who he is’: Dave Portnoy blasts Zohran Mamdani over 9/11 controversy  

"Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don’t want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?  He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11

He endorsed Claire Valdez who also said America deserved 9/11

He… https://t.co/EH1vQMysWb

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 28, 2026

"Could it be for any of the following reasons?"

It didn't take long for one of Mamdani's staunchest critics, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, to weigh in on the situation.

"Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don't want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?" Portnoy posted on X before listing several reasons families may not want Mamdani around, including his political endorsements, his calls to defund the police, and his refusal to condemn the phrase to condemn the phrase "Globalize the Intifada."

"Portnoy finished his post by writing that all of what he said is only a Google search away.

"'All the above is readily accessible with a quick google search. He hasnt hid who he is."

 Patricia Heaton joins calls to ban Mamdani from 9/11 remembrance ceremony

"A petition seeking to ban New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani from this year's 9/11 anniversary events has received support from a voice in Hollywood.

"Actress Patricia Heaton has backed a petition calling to bar Mamdani, 34, from attending 9/11 remembrance events due to 'his public positions, associations, and responses to rhetoric that many perceive as hostile' to the 'American values' grounding the anniversary. 

"Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the terror attacks that struck the United States on September 11, 2001.

"This year marks the 25th anniversary of the tragedy. 

"'Keep it going New Yorkers,' the Everybody Loves Raymond actress, 68, tweeted on Sunday, along with a screenshot of the Change.org petition." . . .

The Princess Diaries of "Easy on the Eyes" Anthony Fauci

 Brandon Gill and Ted Cruz Have a Field Day With James Talarico's Old Fauci Post    "The furor over Fauci then managed to hit James Talarico, the leftist Democrat candidate for Senate in Texas. 

"Folks in Texas found a very embarrassing post on Talarico's X account — Talarico celebrating that he got a Fauci action figure for Christmas in 2021. " . . .

The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci - Ann Coulter

— “Over the past three weeks I have been on the cover of Time magazine X2, once as one of the 100 most influential people in the world again as the ‘guardian of the year.’ Also, on the cover of People magazine.”

"I thought of various clever-seeming ways to organize this cornucopia of quotes from the diary of former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci. But that would mean cutting some of these gems. So here they are, in ascending order of embarrassing awfulness." 1. Anthony Fauci on Anthony Fauci:

— “Apparently, a lot of people at the Pentagon admire me very much …”

— “The nurses went absolutely wild to see me, they were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold.”

— “Did I mention he’s easy on the eyes?” — Fauci, quoting The Anthony Fauci Fan Club Twitter account (which he does at length).

2. If the Real Housewives had a baby with George Santos, it would be Anthony Fauci.

— “A Gala event was held tonight… It was the highest level of AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC.”

— “One person said that Tyra [Banks] was sexy, but I was even more sexy than she was. She [said] ‘that is true and my mother is in love with you.’ Zing ” . . .   The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci - Ann Coulter

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Prosecutors allege Tyler Robinson targeted Charlie Kirk over his religious and political views

  Washington Examiner

"If the judge allows the case to proceed, Robinson will face multiple charges for his alleged assassination of Kirk that come with the maximum punishment of the death penalty, something prosecutors have said they intend to pursue."

Key takeaways

• Prosecution Claims: Prosecutors allege Robinson targeted Charlie Kirk due to his religious and political beliefs, citing text messages, witness testimony, and bullet engravings mocking Kirk.
• Legal Proceedings: Judge Tony Graf will decide on trial eligibility on Sept. 1; Robinson’s lawyers can file a defense brief by Aug. 18 challenging the evidence.
• Potential Consequences: If allowed to proceed, Robinson faces murder charges with the death penalty, making this one of the most closely watched criminal cases of the year.

. . . "Robinson’s trial is expected to be one of the most closely watched criminal cases of the year, after the public killing of Kirk sent shock waves through politics last year." More...

Jim Crow 2.0: How the Minimum Wage Became the Democrat Party’s Favorite Racist law of the Left.

To use Joy Reid's favorite phrase...

 American Free News Network   

"The Great Society welfare architecture: collapsed Black two-parent households from over 80 percent to below 30 percent in a single generation, after two hundred years of slavery and Jim Crow failed to accomplish the same thing. Racist in outcome regardless of stated intent, and defended for sixty straight years."

. . . "EXHIBIT ONE: THE ORIGINAL SIN — BUILT BY RACISTS, FOR RACISTS —

"Here is what does not make it into the civics textbook, including — I will admit this uncomfortably — the one that sat on shelves before I wrote my own.

"The minimum wage was not invented by union heroes fighting for the little guy. It was invented by progressive eugenicists who said, in print, under their own names, that they wanted it to price certain people out of the labor market entirely. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard spent a career documenting this so thoroughly that the modern left has simply chosen not to read him. The word these progressive economists used for the people they wanted priced out was “unemployables.” When they wrote “unemployables” in 1913, they meant Black Americans, recent immigrants, and the disabled. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, intellectual royalty of the progressive movement, called it “social cleansing” in their own writing. Not my word. Theirs.

Union leadership of that era did not even bother with euphemism. Minimum wage rules, they said, removed “the incentive for employing the Negro.” That is a direct quote from a primary source, not my paraphrase, not a hostile interpretation. It is sitting in the historical record for anyone who wants to check my work.

"Then came the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 — a federal wage floor on government construction jobs, pushed through by Southern Democrats and Northern union bosses who were furious that Black construction workers kept winning federal contracts by working for market wages. Texas Congressman Martin Dies said it on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, not in a diary, not in a private letter — on the floor, in the Congressional Record: “you cannot prescribe the same wages for the Black man as the White man.” The bill passed.

"The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 — the law that actually created the federal minimum wage — excluded agricultural workers and domestic servants. Historian Ira Katznelson documented, at exhausting length, that this was the specific price Southern Democrats demanded for their votes, because agricultural and domestic work is where Black labor was concentrated in the Jim Crow South. A wage floor that carves a hole exactly the shape of the population you want to keep controllable is not an accident of drafting. It is the whole point of the drafting.

Milton Friedman — Nobel Prize, 1976 — called the minimum wage “the most anti-Negro law on our statute books.” 1966. In print. And today the party that built that law stands at a podium and calls raising it “racial justice.”

"Say that combination out loud a few times. A law engineered by eugenicists to exclude Black workers, defended for ninety-plus years by the Democratic Party, and rebranded — with a completely straight face — as the moral high ground. If a Republican had designed a policy this way, it would be a chapter in every AP U.S. History textbook printed since 1975. Because Democrats designed it, it is a “living wage” bumper sticker.

"That is racist. Not “has racist optics.” Racist in its founding text, by its own founders’ own words." . . .  Much, much more...

Commentaries on Dr. Fauci

 Diary of a felon named Fauci - Don Surber   

. . . "Crying covid made him money. Penguin Books (owned by a German company) gave him a book advance of $5 million—or 10 times the actual royalties due him for the 95,000 copies sold. Book advances are the way globalists buy off crooks like Jim Comey. I’m surprised Jack R. Smith did not receive one.

"Because of the pardon—designed to keep Fauci from singing about is collaborators—nothing will be done. No lesson learned. No prevention from reoccurrence sought.

"But there is a satisfaction among those brave souls who refused to conform.

"On August 7, 2021, Fauci wrote in his little diary, “Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace. He is blocking the local authorities from mandating masks in various locations including schools.”

"Nearly 5 years later, DeSantis tweeted, “Badge of honor! Proud to have blocked local governments from enforcing Faucian edicts on their citizens.”  Indeed. . . .

JUST IN: Fauci Admits To Working Against Trump's 2020 Re-Election Bid In Shocking Diary   . . . "Anthony Fauci’s newly released diary entries, made public by Sen. Rand Paul, reveal that Fauci privately viewed efforts to fast-track COVID-19 treatments and vaccines before the 2020 election as politically motivated — and show he recorded personally intervening to support FDA officials resisting pressure for emergency authorizations.

"The entries were first highlighted by Justin Hart of the Rational Ground Substack.

"The entries, spanning five months in 2020, detail Fauci’s concerns about what he repeatedly described as an effort to deliver President Donald Trump an “October surprise” ahead of Election Day. They also identify the administration officials he believed were applying pressure and document a call in which Fauci wrote that he and other top federal health officials assured the FDA’s top vaccine regulator they would support him if he refused to approve a vaccine prematurely.

"The diary centers on several key figures. Peter Marks led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the office responsible for reviewing vaccine applications. Then-FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn oversaw Marks. Fauci also references then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, NIH Director Francis Collins, Fauci deputy Cliff Lane and Larry Horowitz, whom he identifies as someone working closely with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"One of the earliest entries, dated June 20, 2020, focuses not on White House political aides but on then-White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

"Fauci wrote that he had become increasingly frustrated with Birx, accusing her of wanting to bypass traditional clinical trials in favor of emergency authorizations.

"“Deb has ststed [sic] that we should noit [sic] do clinical trials since ‘I want to see every infected person in a nursing home get plasma early on and steroids later. Forget the trial, we need to do this on EUAs. She says the same thing about vaccine trials. Clearly, she is trying to provide Trump with his October surprise. I may need to blow the whistle on her.”" . . .More...

UPDATE: WATCH: @RandPaul ejects Fauci's attorney from Senate hearing after the lawyer repeatedly refused to stop speaking without being recognized. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify or answer questions from the committee.

Paul warned the attorney multiple times… pic.twitter.com/HaSMi1uX8x

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 29, 2026