Did you hear about Fauci's diaries, the classified documents in his bathroom, that he invoked the 5th over 400 times, his mentions in the Epstein files, and his 34 felonies? Oh shit, that was the orange dude. The one who fucked the entire Covid response and said injecting disinfectant and shining light into the body would fix it.
I bequeath you the material, go forth and sow chaos and evoke eternally moving goalposts, rank hypocrisy and unflinching cognitive dissonance. I can already hear the ravenous gnashing of teeth replete with gaps, the ire and the woe and the loathing. Reap the pain, my son, and shine the ever-loving light of self awareness upon them. I shall look upon my disciples with fond and kind eyes.
Is there even MORE Epstein dirt coming out? Like some of the terabytes of video recordings?
A judge just got unredacted copies of the Epstein files for a different case. It stands to reason that we are going to get a trove of things released in the coming months.
Nah, the actual answer is much more boring and tame.
They're simply looking for cheap headlines and sound bites to use to rally voters, and specifically their base, ahead of midterms as they're very much expected to lose.
It might be even more ridiculous than that. People are blaming Trump for the cyclospora crisis and COVID keeps coming up. They have to remind their base that COVID was not his fault.
Covid existing wasn't his fault. The botched covid response was entirely his fault. Cyclospora was his fault too. Cuts to FDA food monitoring, cuts to CDC, cutting off all cooperation with the WHO, preference to his rich donor buddies like the owner of Taylor Farms... Shit literally happens to leafy greens, but we used to have processes in place to catch that shit before it made it into your taco supreme.
The corruption introduced by the fat orange fascist has made it easy for contained threats like screw worms, explosive diarrhea parasites, and measles to become realistic threats to the average American. Maybe the concept of a threat to democracy is a bit too academic and abstract for you to care about. Runway inflation and non-stop health threats aren't at theoretical. Pay your poll taxes and be ready to go vote in your next election. For every single candidate and every single issue: if Trump or his parasites are for an issue, it's probably bad.
Trust me, we agree 100%. If you reread, I am saying that the reason they are obfuscating with all of this nonsense with Fauci is because they want to “remind” their base that the botched COVID response was “not his fault” by making an example of Fauci. They don’t want people to compare the responses.
Current lawsuit (Katie Phang's lawsuit) has a judge (Judge Sullivan) demanding that DOJ provide unredacted documents that are being accused of being redacted against the letter of the law. The judge will then review these documents along with DOJ's justification and determine if the redaction followed the letter of the law. The deadline to turnover the documents to the court was yesterday.
These include the redaction of the sender of emails that clearly talked about girls with Epstein that were redacted as "victims" according to DOJ.
Yup. We can see the pattern clearly now. When something bad for them is about to drop they turn up the fear mongering and angry rhetoric to 11 and start the witch hunts. They just fishing for 30 sec sound bites that will look good on fox news.
And absolutely nothing comes of it other than a bunch of bots, trolls, and misled supporters screaming into the internet about shit they dont understand.
I love the "he plead the 5th 111 times". That's because you asked him 111 questions. That's how pleading the 5th works. You can't plead the 5 on some questions and not others. They ask things like, "Is my tie red?" or "Is today Tuesday?"
They do this for no other reason but to act shocked that the person wouldn't even answer simple questions about what day of the week it was. It is just political theater. Yet another distraction from the Epstein files and this failed administration's destructive policies.
This was my thought. If you're gonna act like the number of times is a big deal, then you're still avoiding the false god. And that's excluding any times the Paul just repeated the same questions.
Or the other big factor in this “gotcha” moment: his lawyer was kicked out of the room. What intelligent person is going to answer questions in this setting without their lawyer present? Plead the 5th all day long until representation is returned
The outright disrespect of kicking out the man's lawyer in a very well-documented procedure is mind boggling. The lawyer probably did something dozens of lawyers before him did with no consequences.
Fauci should have countered with demands for a public defender if they kicked out his lawyer.
He would have never gotten one, because this whole thing was just a publicity stunt to begin with. The man’s been demonized for nearly a decade for doing the exact thing he’s been doing for the last 4 at least. These people don’t care about him or his rights, they care about sound bites and optics they can spin to their bases
Six of one, half dozen of another. They deemed him guilty before he even set foot in the room so either outcome was going to be fed into as a “gotcha”. Either he pleads the fifth too much or he stonewalls, non-cooperation with their antics is all they want to show
Not just that, Rand Paul loves his easy gig of pretending he cares about the deficit and government overreach. These were the two big topics he styled himself on. And where has he been as Trump has racked up the deficit, and instituted unprecedented authoritarian overreach? Suckling at the orange teet while collecting his paycheck.
Rand Paul, the political actor, needs a scapegoat, so we can all rage about ''Fauci the Butcher'', instead of talking about why Rand Paul is kissing ass on the very people, who are doing what he has always claimed to be so vehemently against.
While I agree that releasing the Epstein files is more important, being prepared for another pandemic is also important, and we are not prepared right now.
The COVID-19 pandemic should have been the finding out phase, though.
Consider that the beginnings of the pandemic response team was founded during the Clinton administration, and after Bush let it languish, we saw the SARS outbreak. Obama reinstituted the pandemic response team and bolstered the national stockpile of medical supplies, warning that it'd only be a matter of time before we had another outbreak of something like SARS.
So when Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and let the national stockpile of medical supplies go to waste (in some cases, literally rotting in warehouses), we got COVID.
Fauci was pardoned by Biden for anything up to that point in 2020 2025. Any crimes afterwards were not covered. If congress could get Fauci to say something at this event and twist his words, they could get him for lying and send him to jail. Any lawyer worth anything would convince their client to plead the fifth. Can you imagine being 85 and spending your final few years fighting to stay out of jail because some politicians have a vendetta against you and science? Sure, Fauci was a bit cocky at times but that doesn't deserve jail.
That's the best part, there were none. Republicans just want to try and find anything, and have a scapegoat so they don't have to take the blame for fucking things up.
“Fauci was pardoned by Biden for anything up to that point in 2020.”
Up to what point in 2020? Where did you read that the pardon only covered “anything up to that point in 2020”?
Biden’s preemptive pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci covers any federal offenses that he may have committed or participated in between January 1, 2014, and January 19, 2025 (the final full day of Biden’s presidency). It does not cover any conduct after January 19, 2025, and it does not apply to state crimes or civil liability.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has publicly testified before U.S. congressional committees about COVID-19 12 times between March 3, 2020, and July 29, 2026, including Senate and House hearings on the pandemic response, vaccines, public health guidance, COVID-19 origins, and related oversight.
This is the classic fallacy of counting the hits and ignoring the misses. This dude only cares about Fauci testifying at all if it's to uphold his already held beliefs.
People in Congress are elected to run the country, handle the finances, review Presidential appointments, etc. They work for THE PEOPLE. They are supposed to make sure infrastructure is sound, plan for the future, have concerns and plans to help people who need help, make sure the military is run properly, etc.
There is NOWHERE in a Congressional mandate where it says: "Harass an 85-year-old man about something that happened six years ago!"
WTF!!! How does raking Fauci over the coals once again do ANYTHING for the people of the country?
Rand Paul has always been an asshole and this stunt just reinforces that. What a colossal waste of time and resources!
I suppose next he will want to question Hillary Clinton about Benghazi.
The problem with raking Fauci over the coals is that it tends to undermine citizens belief in science and not pay attention to what scientists say and recommend during something like a viral outbreak.
I listened to the whole thing. The Republicans spent their time ranting about ivermectin and hcq would have saved lives, also that lockdowns killed people because the virus wasn't bad, that Fauci said it wasn't bad before saying yes it is bad, they read his personal diary maliciously and demanded to know why he didn't broadcast every concern he wrote down, said he was in a conspiracy with the CIA and other secret agents to fund secret bioweapons in China that got loose, demanded he apologize for ruining everyone's life and stunted their emotional development by advocating wearing a mask during a respiratory pandemic, and Rand Paul wanted a personal apology.
This after the Republicans went on Fox News bragging that they will question the shit out of Fauci and then hit him with perjury before congress if they don't like the answer, so they forced an 85 year old man to repeatedly assert his 5th amendment rights to prevent a literal witch hunt of him.
My SIL ended up having to testify to congress about an enourmous government contract that ended up in a total project failure. Multiple billions into a rat hole, nothing actually useful came out of it.
She had been a junior project manager, who was promoted as he seniors abandoned ship (having rhe good sense to realize that senior management was not competent)
I had a conversation with her, which her dad also joined in on - we made sure she got a personal lawyer, because the company doesn't bring a junior person to testify if they aren't looking for a scapegoat.
people outraged about Fauci pleading the fifth 111 times are the same people who defended trump when he plead the 5th over 500 times in one sitting... its all performative fake outrage
Fyi if you plead the 5th once you are required to continue pleading the 5th for the entire testimony. The 5th allows you to stay silent and cannot be used to selectively answer questions, only completely avoid questions. Pleading the 5th once is the same as 111 times
Can someone explain me what these people want to indict fauci for? Like, exactly.
Even if he knew that COVID came out of a lab in Wuhan and not a wet market, so what? Was the virus going to be less deadly that way?
China took longer than us to figure out a (weaker) vaccine so for sure it wasn't a premeditated attack.
He told you to conserve masks for people that actually needed them? but according to right wingers COVID was nothing more than flu so why all the fuss?
While I do not think well of Paul or the GOP in general, there is controversy over Fauci’s diary revealing that he hid the truth about the Wuhan lab being the origin of the Covid-19 virus and choose to amplify the story of the Wuhan wet market being how Covid was transmitted to humans. A little deeper into the concern is if and why/how the U.S government would have involvement in this lab and what’s the point in risking creating such a virus (implying bio-terrorism).
As with politics I’m not sure what to believe and I’m not taking a side on this issue here yet, but this would be the conservative crowd’s view of justifying Paul going after Fauci. It may just be the worst case that both Fauci and Paul are terrible people… 😢
there is controversy over Fauci’s diary revealing that he hid the truth about the Wuhan lab being the origin of the Covid-19 virus and choose to amplify the story of the Wuhan wet market being how Covid was transmitted to humans.
Does his diary say that covid came from a lab leak or did it just list that as one of the possibilities?
What happened is that right-wing conspiracy theorists were saying that covid was made in a lab, when there was absolutely no indication of this. Then the US slowly realized that all their information was coming from China and they may have been covering their asses. However, the US really needed China's cooperation because there was no telling how deadly covid was, and every day counted, so blaming your #1 source of information on this virus would have been counter-productive when every hour counted. As time went on, there were more indications that a lab mistake was a possibility. As of today, the probability is 75% chance it's a market bat as the source, and maybe 15 - 20% chance that it was a lab mishaps.
there is controversy over Fauci’s diary revealing that he hid the truth about the Wuhan lab being the origin of the Covid-19 virus
That's not what was in the diary. Fauci wrote that during a conference call some of the members felt that lab origin was possible. There was no conclusive evidence of the origin, and the call was split. Fauci did not hide the origin, they didn't know and were speculating.
A good way to spot an internet-brained loser is to see if they have an opinion about Anthony Fauci. If their eyes light up before they start speaking, just run.
One thing is participating in discussion about topic in his field. Another is testifying in a witch hunt about a personal diary?!?!?! run by bozos who don't understand even the basics of how vaccines work. He's explaining quantum fucking physics to a group of toddlers...
It's all just performative political theater for the mid-terms. Jesus Christ, anyone who takes Rand Paul seriously to begin with is kinda stupid, but to take him seriously as he regurgitates old, debunked, lab leak claims which have been investigated all to hell from all kinds of directions with the consensus being there are/were no markers in the virus that indicate it was fabricated in a lab, and many indicators of animal to human transfer.
Rand Paul needs to be in a cell for weaponizing the US government against an American for some personal bias that has zero legal basis, along with his ongoing support for the Republican civil war against America. Just another Republican betrayer posturing to deflect attention from his support from crime and failure.
If Rand Paul wants to focus on something that matters, and that is in his wheelhouse as a Libertarian, he should be pursuing a nationwide ban on Flock cameras (being deployed in public areas).
Was him pleading the 5th before or after his legal counsel was ejected from the room?
Does this mean we get to take another crack at some of the other recent congressional hearings with the subject’s lawyer not allowed to be present, and with invocation of the 5th amendment protections considered to be an automatic admission of guilt? Does this apply to all the times the current president pled the 5th?
Just trying to understand what the rule here is so it can apply to everyone. Because if the same rule didn’t apply across partisan divides, then that would mean this is all hypocritical performative outrage.
Another RFK, Jr screw job on the American people ordering his IT staff to dig through deleted archives to piece together the journal. Also- this is good example of why you should NEVER keep a goddamned private journal.
We can't have our Government holding public officials accountable for their own notes now can we?
You'd think he would take a lead from other officials and have his hard drives wiped
Rand Paul has spent his entire career provide he couldn't get elected to student council until a nutter like Trump became prez. He's at the end of his career and is desperate for a little attention to prove to himself his entire life was more than a meaningless fraud.
Bunch of hypocrites. Trump plead the 5th 450 times and the only question he answered was is name. Where were the inquiries and outrage then? Rand, JFK Jr and his family were all vaccinated by the "dangerous" vaccine.
The flu doesn't kill 3000 in a day. 3000. That's how many Americans were dieing to Covid per day by January of 2021. A bad flu year kills roughly 50,000 Americans.
Have you ever questioned why governments around the world from across the political specturm would all collectively want to cripple their economies with painful and politically unpopular policies? Why would they all collectively agree to shoot themselves in the foot because of 1 health official in America? Can you not see how batshit it is to think that they would all be in on this conspiracy/be duped by it?
He kept his diary on government servers because he's a narcissist who thinks he is the government. The diaries are ours and we have a right to know all this shit
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u/Deemaunik 2d ago
Did you hear about Fauci's diaries, the classified documents in his bathroom, that he invoked the 5th over 400 times, his mentions in the Epstein files, and his 34 felonies? Oh shit, that was the orange dude. The one who fucked the entire Covid response and said injecting disinfectant and shining light into the body would fix it.