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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🤬
@Nonilex Dr. Fauci was in an impossible situation as a physician and scientist who worked in a regime led by an uneducated dullard who did not believe in science.
Fauci persevered. Fauci saved lives. He is, and will be, remembered as a hero.
@Nonilex we live in the dumbest time in history and the idiots and algorithms are fully in control.
@Nonilex I see this as 'retired man refuses to answer questions about his old job'.
@Nonilex he wasn't the one who told us to inject bleach or blast our blood with sunlight.
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.
#Trump #MafiaState #COVID #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law
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
Senator #RandPaul accuses Dr. #Fauci of funding research in China that sparked the #pandemic, & then lying about it to #Congress — outrageous accusations Dr. Fauci vehemently denies.
In a brief opening statement, Dr. Fauci noted that he had testified before Congress more than 200 times during the 38 years he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [ #NIAID ], including during the #Covid pandemic.
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“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,
“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
@Nonilex his lawyer gave him the standard “shut the fuck up” advice, and good for him for following it
The top #Democrat on the panel, Senator #GaryPeters of Michigan, accused #RandPaul of waging a politically-motivated inquiry to “basically legitimize a predetermined conclusion that was reached years ago.”
Dr. #Fauci & Mr. Paul have been tangling with one another for years. In 2021, when the senator accused Dr. Fauci of lying while testifying before the #Senate, Dr. Fauci replied, “If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.”
#COVID #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #USpol #law
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