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#Trump invoked the #FifthAmendment nearly 450 times in the #NYAG’s civil probe of his fraudulent business practices (he was found liable).

Trump answered only one question, about his name, during the 4-hour deposition.

So all the #Republicans saying Dr. #Fauci is doing something wrong by exercising his Constitutional rights can shove it.

#COVID #ConspiracyTheories #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAqjPXLTUMg

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

The hearing is over. Sen #RandPaul said the committee would vote next week on whether to hold Dr. #Fauci in #contempt for his refusal to testify [nope, that is a constitutional right you ignorant prick]. He delivered a dark closing statement, asking of Fauci, “Did his actions lead to the largest man-made plague in history?” Then Paul closed the hearing. Fauci walked out, stone-faced & necessarily escorted by police due to all the threats he faces because of charades like this.

#RepublicanGoons

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 4 days ago

#Trump invoked the #FifthAmendment nearly 450 times in the #NYAG’s civil probe of his fraudulent business practices (he was found liable).

Trump answered only one question, about his name, during the 4-hour deposition.

So all the #Republicans saying Dr. #Fauci is doing something wrong by exercising his Constitutional rights can shove it.

#COVID #ConspiracyTheories #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAqjPXLTUMg

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

The hearing is supposed to be about investigating the origins of the #coronavirus, but #Republicans are largely using it to attack & disparage Dr. #Fauci personally, trying to paint a picture of him as pursuing fame & money at Americans’ expense, & mocking him for taking the #FifthAmendment.

Senator #BernieMoreno, Republican of Ohio, says aloud one main consequence of today’s hearing: It will produce video clips that Republicans can use to campaign. -Sick🤬

#ConspiracyTheories #science #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 4 days ago

#RepublicanGoons

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

#RandPaul has been taunting Dr. #Fauci on Twitter all week, & Fauci’s conservative critics have been ridiculing him over diary entries that focus on his own fame & relationships with celebrities.

Peter Staley, a longtime AIDS activist & close friend of Dr. Fauci’s, said he kept the diary to help write a memoir, which he was already drafting when the #pandemic hit. It was published in 2024. Staley said the personal observations reflect Fauci being “astonished at what was happening in his life.”

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

On Tuesday, a group of >155 physicians, scientists & #PublicHealth advocates, organized by #AIDS activists who worked closely with Dr. #Fauci in the 1990s, issued a public letter defending him & condemning what they considered the #Trump admin’s relentless attacks on #science & scientists.

#COVID #ConspiracyTheories #medicine #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #USpol #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

Mr. Schertler, Dr. #Fauci’s lawyer, said in statement that he believes that exchange “triggered” #RandPaul’s crusade against his client. But he did not deliver the statement, because Paul refused to let him speak. Sen #RichardBlumenthal, #Democrat of Connecticut, read parts of the statement into the record.

“The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false & disgraceful,” the statement said, “& we will examine all options to hold him accountable.”

#ConspiracyTheories #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

Over the weekend, #RandPaul released >1,100 pages of Dr. #Fauci’s typewritten personal diary without saying how he got them. On Tuesday, “Health” Secy #RFKJr said he gave the documents to Paul & another [crazy] #Republican, Sen #RonJohnson of Wisconsin, “so they could see the light of day.”

#Trump #COVID #ConspiracyTheories #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

“the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars,’”Dr. #Fauci said

Dr. Fauci told the panel that it pained him not to answer questions, but that he was doing so on the advice of his lawyers.

#Trump #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #COVID #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

Early in the hearing, #RandPaul warned that there would be “repercussions” for Dr. Fauci’s refusal to testify, & then ordered the REMOVAL of his lawyer‼️, David Schertler, when he tried to speak up on his client’s behalf. The hearing, unusual even by the #Senate’s recent hyperpartisan standards, also featured #ConspiracyTheories & personal attacks, with #Republicans taunting Dr. #Fauci as a megalomaniac & a liar.

#Trump #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #COVID #PublicHealth #science #USpol #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

“Over that period, I proved that I believe in & respect the value of legitimate congressional oversight,” Dr. #Fauci said. “However, given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, & recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing & intimidating me,

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

Dr. Fauci told the panel that it pained him not to answer questions, but that he was doing so on the advice of his lawyers.

#Trump #RepublicanGoons #MafiaState #COVID #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who spent nearly four decades as the government’s top #InfectiousDisease expert, refused on Wednesday to answer any questions from a #Senate committee investigating the origins of #Covid19. Dr. #Fauci accused the committee’s #Republican chairman, #RandPaul, of having an “unhinged obsession with me,” before repeatedly invoking his #FifthAmendment right not to incriminate himself.