A useful idiot.
Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
One hundred eleven times. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government face of the COVID-19 pandemic, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
When questioned by that committee about his role in the government’s response to the pandemic, Dr. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent 111 times. 111 times. It may be a record.
The committee is chaired by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a frequent and vocal critic of Fauci, and it came in the wake of the public release of Fauci’s personal diary that he kept on a government server, which makes it government property.
(Just as an aside, what grown man do you know who keeps a diary?)
The intent of Wednesday’s hearing was for Fauci to be finally held to account. That didn’t happen. Though he was granted a preemptive pardon by Joe Biden and is thus not subject to prosecution, he refused to answer questions – even benign questions such as, “What color is my tie?,” 111 times. Many of the questions were ones the answers to which we already know. It just would have been nice to hear Fauci at last own up.
We now know that though Fauci claimed in public that COVID came from a Chinese wet market, he knew full well that the source was a leak from a research lab in Wuhan, China. A lab in which gain of function research – officially banned under U.S. policy – was taking place thanks to funding provided through a back door by Fauci’s agency with Fauci’s full knowledge.
One could thus argue that the source of the COVID pandemic was Fauci himself.
That’s one example. It’s bad. But it’s not new.
What’s new is Dr. Fauci’s diary. While Americans were effectively placed under house arrest by governors, mayors and county officials who acted on Fauci’s recommendations, while small businesses failed, wiping out the livelihoods and life savings of countless thousands of Americans, while churches were closed and elementary school children were placed in lifelong educational deficit by the closing of schools, and while old people were made to die alone and uncomforted in nursing homes, Fauci was giggling like a school girl at his newfound celebrity.
Early in the pandemic I came to dislike Fauci. What I now understand is that I didn’t dislike him nearly enough.
Gushing about being on magazine covers and talking to the likes of Julia Roberts is galling as hell against a backdrop of 330 million people being stripped of their civil liberties. People were losing their livelihoods, their marriages and for too many, their very reason for living. But all the while, Tony Fauci was having the time of his life.
Anthony Fauci is the classic example of a small man in a big role. It’s clear that his juvenile fascination with his own celebrity made him a useful idiot to the media. That’s because for the media, the pandemic wasn’t a story, it was a means to an end — the taking down of Donald Trump.
Toward that end, they played Fauci like a fiddle.
The pig, must be punished
Luigi Mangione has a legion of fangirls thanks to his murdering an unsympathetic, but innocent, man. Fauci worked overtime to enrich himself and actually hurt people, but where’s the outrage?
Thanks for another great column.
Anthony Fauci in his non-testimony was bad enough. Nor did the Democrats on the congressional panel cover themselves in glory. What a bunch of partisan creeps, falling all over themselves to defend the indefensible. Fauci is demonstrably responsible for the deaths of millions of people, yet Democrats still worship at his shrine.
I hear Cuban-socialistic citizens living in the U.S. are in Canoes paddling to get back there ASAP…or is it the other direction?
Was he useful though? In any way?
I’d say it’s a matter for Ken Paxton to at least start on, but the statute has run on most of the State charges you could indict him on. That leaves civil suits, which may have to do.
I disliked Fauci also, and I feel vindicated because my suspicion was correct! I recognized the egotistical speech and demeanor, and his response to any questions to his authority and expertise. I could barely tolerate watching him during the hearing. His level of arrogance is appalling. I actually think several of the senators would have liked to have smacked him in the mouth! I remember the “mad scientist” movies and Fauci gave an Academy Award performance in “COVID-19”! Will he be held accountable? Doubtful! But his legacy is worse than Biden’s, at least among people with a brain. Maybe he SHOULD be released without charges to answer to the American people. Putting him in jail he would be protected from them.
I’ll bet his own mother doesn’t even like him. He even looks like a weasel and thats being kind.
All I can say is fauci reminds me of a possum that got hold of sour grapes!!!
In my book, no form of punishment could be too severve for this creep. After all he put the country and even other nations through, he joins the world’s most hated monsters. To think a senile old fool would give this man a pardon is beyond unthinkable, but in Biden’s case, most of what he did as president was unthinkable too. After hearing people like Scott Atlas and others question what was taking place, I told my wife it was a hoax, but she gets her news on ABC, like the old saying goes, “A man convinced beyond his will is of the same opinion still.” Like a leeming I followed her and millions of others and went and got the shot. I didn’t have any side effects until I went and got the second and still have pain in my left shoulder when I raise my left arm. I just hope the republican party has enough sense to use his entries in his diary along with some of the other things that happened during our lockdown in campaign ads.
Thank GOD I refused the jab! What is so bad are all the young people who died from taking it! But then, that ole possum just hissed and grinned cause he was getting his moment of “FAME”!
And the $$$$. Don’t forget the $$$$
The result of the Congressional Inquiry:
You right winged conservators are so quick to jump to judgement. Doctor Faudci admitted NOTHING so he is innocent and under fire. Even Biden (or somebody with the auto pen) knew you would one day ask for outlandish accountability!
Don’t try to confuse the issue by entering facts.
Thomas, you are a typical left-wing lunatic! “Don’t try to confuse the issue by entering facts” is a statement that someone makes that isn’t concerned about the truth of the matter, only the appearance of concern. Democrats never worry about facts when they are inconvenient. Fauci may not have admitted to anything during the hearing, but his own writings in his diary confirm MANY of the things we suspected at the time. Arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic, maniacal, the list goes on! I don’t expect Fauci to be held “accountable” because there is nothing to be done to him to recompense the offended. But, we shouldn’t be fooled again!
Thomas, do you not understand that Fauci used millions of American dollars to fund gain of function research in China, research that resulted in the deaths of millions, and misery for millions more? Only a dismal lack wit would defend Fauci. You are such.
I am an GDI – Gosh Darn Independent and I cannot stand that guy. He lied, lied some more, and now after his diary has exposed him, he has nothing to say? Give me a break! Prison, rest of his life and make him wear three to four masks all the time.