Thursday, July 30, 2026

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).

"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...



. . . "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."



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

"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 ðŸ˜Š” . . .   The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci - Ann Coulter

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

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
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  • 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...


Pete Buttigieg Wants to Pack Supreme Court With 13 Justices

"The Court has had 9 seats since 1869, and every serious attempt to alter that number has been understood as an effort to capture the Court for political ends"

 Legal Insurrection

Pictured in this post; those who could have chosen America's expanded Supreme Court Justices:


"Former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News Friday to pitch a plan that would hand politicians four new seats on the Supreme Court and to argue that the institution needs to be fundamentally restructured.

"Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network called out what Buttigieg is really doing, including the clip of him making his case on Fox News.

"There is an immediate factual problem with Buttigieg’s pitch. The federal system does not have 13 districts. It has 94 federal judicial districts and 13 appellate courts; 12 regional circuits and the Federal Circuit. Buttigieg confused the district courts with the appellate circuits while arguing for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s highest court.

"That error is not even the biggest problem with the proposal.

"Increasing the number of justices from nine to 13 is court packing, regardless of how Buttigieg dresses it up. The Constitution does not set the size of the Court, so Congress technically has the power to change it, but the Court has sat at nine seats since 1869, and every serious attempt to alter that number has been understood as an effort to capture the Court for political ends.

"Buttigieg also endorsed term limits and expressed interest in a so-called “balanced bench.” Under one version of that plan, the Court would expand further still, to 15 members. Five seats would be tied to Democratic appointments, five to Republican appointments, and those ten justices would then unanimously select five more. The effect would be a court designed by politicians, for politicians."  . . . More...

: California Is Becoming a Warning for America

 Victor Davis Hanson  "Well, basically, he’s saying to Californians, and I think I’m correct, that we have the fourth or fifth largest oil and gas reserves of any state: Monterey Shale offshore, the Elk Reserve, Naval Reserve near Bakersfield. 

"So he said, “You people have the highest gas prices in the nation, and it’s kind of a drag on the rest of the nation because you have the tech sector, and you’re driving everybody out, and you’re losing your competitiveness. Part of the reason is your fuel is so expensive, your gasoline and diesel fuel, and your electricity. 

“'You’re trying to get rid of nuclear. Your wind and solar don’t work much, and you’re importing a lot of energy from the Middle East that we don’t like. So we would like to go in and take our federal leases and put them up. There’s a lot of oil out there. Get Chevron and Exxon to pump. 

“'And there are other areas that have rare earth minerals in the desert you’re not fully utilizing.” 

"That’s what he’s trying to do. " . . .

The Democratic Socialists of America are Frankenstein’s Monster   "This week Victor and Sami discuss how the new Socialist Left emerged from the Democrats catering to the excesses of their fringe, creating a political Frankenstein’s monster.

"They also provide an update on the state of the Iran war, as wartime strategic decision making necessitates the U.S. to retaliate disproportionately. "As part of the Saturday Special, Victor examines the connections between John Quincy Adams and George H. W. Bush and the entertaining exchange between Representative Gill and Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of American History. " . . .

Newsom Is Murdering California’s Energy Industry - The Daily Signal "When I was growing up, many Americans viewed California as the sunny state with unlimited resources, an entrepreneurial spirit that inspired people across the country, and energy sources that the U.S. and the world desperately needed. Today’s California is the exact opposite of that, and it’s truly a shame.

"Everyone can see that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing a run for president in 2028. While he comes from the same far left, woke camp as former Vice President Kamala Harris, he also owns an energy policy record in California that all Americans should understand—and run away from.

"California’s failures impact the energy security of our country, but it’s even more concerning to consider a future where Newsom takes his anti-fossil fuel policies to the national stage and drags the entire country into this costly abyss.

"Newsom’s policies have resulted in an energy industry exodus that is truly historic and costly for California." . . .More...

Red State examines Doctor Fauci

 


Rand Paul Managed to Silence Fauci, While Underscoring the Egregious Lies Fauci Spouted – Jennifer Oliver O'Connell    "The Wednesday Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing with former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci went as expected. [Fauci Finally Faces Congress - and Immediately Pleads the Fifth]; Democrat committee members decried the waste of time and ran cover for Fauci, and Republicans were able to make their speeches and underscore the evidence against the not-so-good doctor, and the lies and contradictions which he upheld as "The Science." This evidence and these contradictions were reinforced by the Monday release of Fauci's personal diary that he composed using government property/systems. Despite his efforts to "burn bag" this information, once it was placed on government servers, it no longer belonged to him. For a purportedly smart man, this wasn't a very smart decision."  . . . 

. . . "These two stories just scratch the surface of what was revealed in Grage's thread – countless deaths over Zoom calls and Facetime, families being turned away at hospital doors, and the only human contact allowed the elderly was touching hands on opposite sides of a window. Heartbreaking."
I will never forget. My beautiful mother’s last Valentine’s Day. 💔


. . . "All of this, of course, stings even more when many of the same health care workers who kept you away from your sick or dying loved one also happily patted themselves on the back for being "front line workers" and celebrated that achievement by recording goofy TikTok dance videos. From inside that same hospital you weren't allowed to enter.

It's hard to believe now that we put up with this callousness, but it will never happen again. Much like flight 93 on 9/11 made darn sure Americans never again experience a hijacking attempt without putting up a fight, Anthony Fauci single-handedly has ensured that we'll never cede power to an unelected villain (and elected villains aren't exempted from this sentiment, either) over cold and flu symptoms.

The big question that remains is this: will Fauci fess up to his vainglorious misdeeds in front of the Senate, or will he take the coward's way out and plead the Fifth?

The Anthony Fauci Senate hearing takes place Wednesday at 8:30 AM ET – be sure to stick with RedState for full coverage.

"We may have been denied the satisfaction of hearing Fauci having to answer for his

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tyrannical reign as the COVID king – where was the "No Kings" crowd back then? – but we were treated to the delightful sight of his obnoxious attorney, David Schertler, being hauled out of the room by security after ignoring Sen. Paul's warning to keep his mouth shut." . . .

"Schertler had previously ignored instructions not to sit at the witness table because he wasn't a witness. Instead, he sat smugly beside his client as he repeatedly invoked the Fifth. Clearly working in cahoots with the Democrats on the panel, Schertler, despite not being a witness and not having a microphone, began addressing the hearing."Lest any of the Fauci supporters out there clutched their pearls at the thought he was left without counsel, Paul assured those in attendance – with his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek – that the witness had at least a half dozen other attorneys on hand."Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge shared what she saw from her seat in the gallery." . . . 

Schertler, again clearly taking his cues from the Democrats present, continued to blither away, prompting Paul to call in security to haul his behind out of the room.