As I wrote yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci was not the only one taking the Fifth yesterday on his record during the pandemic. The media effectively invoked the same privilege to avoid self-incrimination for their years of deifying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Across the cable networks, hosts and guests were going into vapors as Republican senators pummelled Fauci over his COVID policies and the glaring contradictions found in his diary entries. Some, like Dr. Scott Ratzan, echoed Fauci’s own prior claim that any questioning of his judgment was an attack on science.
Once again, Fauci had every right to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. That does not mean that it was the right thing to do. Fauci already had a pardon that notably extended back to 2014 when his agency approved gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China. Any prosecution would be difficult in light of the pardon. It would not be impossible since he could be charged with perjury for any false statements. Yet, that was the same threat that existed during countless prior hearings for Fauci.
So what was the difference now? The answer is found in diary entries and other evidence that contradicts Fauci’s public statements on subjects ranging from the lab theory to school closures. It is not that Fauci would have been tripped into false answers but that he did not have any obvious answers to some of these criticisms.
Instead, Fauci invoked the privilege 111 times. That fell short of Vito Genovese’s record, who invoked the privilege 150 times.
Rather than address the long list of criticisms and contradictions for Fauci, the media rallied around the scientist. Fauci was portrayed as something akin to the St. Sebastian of Science, taking barbs and arrows for his faith. It did not matter that over 1.2 million people died, an economy shut down, and millions of children were prevented from attending school based on these alleged errors. Fauci would remain silent rather than risk being charged with false testimony.
On CNN, Dr. Scott Ratzan repeated Fauci’s much-maligned claim in June 2021 that “attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.” Yesterday, Ratzan declared: “This is an assault on science and scientists, and unfortunately, Dr. Fauci is in that seat. 38 years of service to the country, one of the best-known scientists for infectious disease, unfortunately, has taken a lot of heat…”
It was a maddening statement, repeated by many, that treated Fauci as inviolate, if not infallible. Fauci was wrong about issues that produced tragic costs for this country. When confronted about policies such as school closures, he insisted he had never recommended them while privately admitting he had.
Fauci owes the public explanations, including millions who lost loved ones. Instead, he refused to take the risk of being accused of perjury.
Fauci is no Sebastian. Notably, Sebastian remained silent in public to conceal his faith, but when discovered by Diocletian, he remained faithful. The price was to be shot through with arrows, but he somehow survived. After being nursed back to health by Irene of Rome, he immediately confronted Diocletian in public and denounced his abuses. For that act he was beaten to death with clubs and tossed into a sewer.
Fauci spoke endlessly in public and remained silent only when asked to address the contradictions in his diaries and the costs of his alleged errors.
What is also frustrating for many is the reappearance of figures who toed the line on prior narratives about masks, the virus’s origin, and other issues. They are now claiming victimization in being asked to account for evidence that they were wrong. As Dr. Scott Atlas has laid out, many of those who abused dissenting scientists faced no repercussions after those scientists were largely vindicated in later research.
During this period, dissenting scientists were barred from social media, removed from positions, and vilified for expressing views, despite now being vindicated on subjects ranging from the lab origin of the virus, the efficacy of masks, the six-foot rule, natural immunity, and school closures.
Many previously echoed Fauci’s view that questioning these conclusions was an attack on science. One leading columnist wrote a piece titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”
When courageous scientists put their careers at risk (and some lost their positions) to voice their opposition to Fauci’s policies, neither he nor these acolytes said a thing in their defense. Fauci did not defend them as fighting for science and the need to challenge orthodoxy. When their views were later embraced, they received no apologies, let alone restoration.
For my part, I am not interested in hearing from scientists who remained silent as their counterparts were vilified, shadow-banned, and fired. Their deep faith in science did not prompt them to defend those with opposing views even though orthodoxy is the very antithesis of scientific thought.
Again, Fauci has every right to remain silent, but that does not make it right.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
I wonder if a lab leak is the coverup for a lab release. The army games there would be a tempting target.
Jon, your editors are blocking me because I disagree with you.
Moron. You is funny. U ain’t no engineer. Covid traveled on particles so P-95 worked well.
U idiot. Fauci and others were trying to prevent COVID injuries. Wearing a mask was part of that effort. Distancing of 6 feet, too.
He couldn’t shut down nuthin. He offered his opinions. Go get a degree, Don’t bother me again. FOOL
“there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask” – Anthony Fauci
“From a broad public-health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins maybe 10 percent.” – Anthony Fauci
“Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.” Anthony Fauci
How many boosters are you on?Number six number seven?
you’re as stupid as it gets. go get another clot shot.
You are the idiot – if you can smell perfume or flatulence, then the mask isn’t working – even the N 95 – do your own research on the size of virus versus the size of a flatulent particle.
You are just another “useful idiot” who likes to be lied to just to cover for your party for $$ Power and destruction of the US constitution. The Socialist Democrat Party does not give a crap about anyone but their own corruption.
Fauci lied, and many of us knew it and did not trust anything else he pushed. The media helped crucify people who turned out to be right over what Fauci was spewing. He flat our covered up his involvement and China’s/Military. Chinas Military is involved in everything in China. So Fauci was working with the enemy of freedom. He killed all the unvaxxed because of his lies, cover up and destruction/cover up of documents by his dept and many others. Fauci admits he lied, admits he wanted adulation over saving lives, it’s in his diary Einstein. Yet you cannot admit what is right before your eyes? Who is the MORON?
The media worshiped everything he said and used him to get Trump.He made sure the vaccine was old AFTER the election FOOL.
Fauci admitted that the 6 foot rule was not based on any science and just “sort of appeared.” Fauci was opposed to masks, then in favor, then demanded two, then went back to one. “You is funny”??? Who is the one that needs a degree?
Did Fauci ever say a word about means of prevention readily available in 2021 arguably BETTER than the injection?
SanOtize nasal spray by Enovid Pharma, an Israeli firm, nitric oxide based, kills virus in nose, on market in Oct. 2021 and never mentioned on any so-called “news media”. UDS authorities refused to consider approval for sale in US but you can buy it online.
Dr. Peter McCullough published at that time his Povidone Protocol of diluted germ killer, used as nasal rinse to do what SanOtize did for pennies.
August 2020 study from Barcelona hospital showed Vitamin D given to patients already sick enough to be hospitalized reduced deaths 60%. Censored off US media. (It turned out Fauci was taking 6K units but he never recommended this to the public).
Then the censorship of all the books: Sharyl Attkisson’s “Follow the Science” RFK’s books on Fauci and Covid (so was his 2014 book on Thimerasol) Dr. Ardis book “Moving Beyond Covid-19 Lies” where he describes the science undeneath his curing his wife’s 2-year Long Covid using nicotine patches. No US media mention only George Noory’s CoastAM show let Dr. Ardis on. (Noory just hosted Dane Wigginton from GeoEngineeringWatch website where he explains what the Psychotic State is doing with those funny sky trails and HAARP).
And the censorship of mRNA injuries: Dr. Jordan Vaughn’s THOUSAND+ patients with the clotting injuries, numerous offshore studies on the same, hundreds of healthy young athletes who “died suddenly” with NO CAUSE OF DEATH, the turbo cancers all kept off any media. Sen. Ron Johnson’s hearings C-Span would not show and censored off media outlets.
Oh, Brook Jackson whistleblower on faked vax safety data at Pfizer. Her federal lawsuit was dismissed by NYC fed judge who said “oh well it was an emergency”.
And after all that you’re going to get injected with Mystery Juice from Whereveristan you have no right to know the ingredients of? I’m guessing you don’t know about the book China Rx or the Heparin scandal where poisoned meds Made In China (NOT labeled as such) killed hundreds of people in the United States. Not on the news and the FDA said they couldn’t figure out what happened.
YOU are the fool.
No. They were trying to keep people who know nothing about science, like you, from panicking. N95 masks never worked, the CDC SCIENCE (May, 2020 Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases) told us so.
Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Policy Review
Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures
They were going over the flu, but it’s the same issue — infectious virions are too small for N95 masks to filter out. Further, none of you even knew how to wear them. They have be so tight that the form a pefect seal. That meant you would have A FITTED MASK that would leave an INDENTION RING AROUND THE ENTIRE MASK AREA as it painfully cut into you.
The masks you bought couldnt ‘do that. Fauci knew that and even told his friends, in the released emails, that those masks don’t work.
the documents secured by Open The Books do not show Fauci and Collins getting “58 royalty payments” for the COVID-19 vaccines, as was wrongly claimed in the Townhall.com article and in Huckabee’s Instagram post.
If Fauci accusers did some research, they’d find Fauci has clean hands.
He knew damn well it came from a lab that he funded
Key Milestones1933
(First Inference): Fritz Zwicky calculated that galaxies in the Coma Cluster moved too fast to stay together based on visible stars alone, coining the term dark matter for the unseen glue.
1970s (Confirmation): Vera Rubin and W. Kent Ford showed that stars at the outer edges of spiral galaxies spin just as fast as inner stars, proving massive invisible halos surround them.
2006 (Direct Evidence):
The problem we encounter constantly, at least throughout America, is simply this: most Americans are BOOBS.
Guess what? Science did not accept dark matter existed until this century. The world’s greatest physicists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the world, did not know that our universe is made up mostly of invisible matter and energy.
Which proves they were all liars.
TY Prof. Turley for the Spot On Review! The Bottom-line. None of the MSM Pundits or their ‘support experts’ like Dr. Scott Ratzas back up anything they say with EVIDENCE.. whereas both Rand Paul & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have written Thick & Heavy Books Full of Real Source Evidence.. Books which have taken a magnifying glass to all facets involving Fauci and the Pandemic. Follow the money trail. In Peter Schweizer’s research.. in his Book ‘Clinton Cash..’ we learn how Hillary, as Sec of State, was alarmed to find out what was going on at NIH and was worried that it would result in a Pandemic.. This was circa 2009. The MSM & their associated ‘experts’ cannot hold a candle to Real Evidence.. and they know that.. which is why they kick and shout, for their noise to deflect away from The Facts.
Too bad my fellow Americans miss the boat by such a wide margin. Fauci had a secret agenda! Did he collaborate with Gates who placed microscopic spy mechanisms into the vaccines, you know. Fauci is a genius. Spent 35 years convincing everyone he cared about our health! He was Hitler’s third illegitimate child! You didn’t know that, did you?
It’s all in my new book, “Bob Nathan and The Nine Nasty Nose Pickers”
That’s crazy! Fauci made all those guys look like pikers. He’s in a class of his own with his evil plans.
He did nothing wrong. He received requests from thousands who asked for funding, approved by administrators. He signed off on them not kno0wing what most of them contained.
BTW, I support Trump. On this, he is way, way off. I am very close to someone who lives in that world and I guarantee Fauci and Frances Collins don’t have a deceptive bone in their bodies.
6 feet distancing was based on COMMON SENSE.
Americans r the dumbest fools, it is scary.
Ahh, you claim Fauci and Collins “don’t have a deceptive bone in their bodies,” eh? Tell us: have you bothered to READ Fauci’s own diary? Do ya claim he lied to the diary he never thought would be found? The one in which he contradicted almost everything he told the American public?
You’re really a gullible fool.
Airborne pathogens laugh at your masks and 6 feet, yalls so silly
Isn’t it true that Trump could still be penalized for his 34 felony convictions at some point in the future? These guilty verdicts were reached by citizen juries, not Democrats.
If a president commits crimes, especially while out of office, there is no statute of limitations. Trump could still be sentenced to heavy fines and prison time.
Some of Trump’s felony convictions have no statute of limitations. So far Trump was convicted of 34 felonies but there was never a sentencing hearing to determine the proper punishments for his lawbreaking.
Trumped up charges made by far left nut jobs do not constitute crimes. Everyone knows this was b.s. pushed by a kangaroo court. Those citizen juries were far left nut jobs
Dear Anon. from the Darkside. This is Not the Topic Prof. Turley has for his Forum.. Instead of STEALING RESOURCES to dump your own TDS tired-ass BS. why not go pay for your own forum to relieve yourself…..
oh, the TDS affects the uninformed the most! It generates these sorts of revenge fantasies. Trump! dared to win win win despite their desires he fail, how dare he? Is it true? you ask, for you, the possibilities are as limitless as your uniformed imagination!
Fauci FanBoys assert that neither Fauci nor any government official claimed that the vaccine prevents one against infection (and transmission).
That claim is a lie:
Then CDC Director Walensky: Those who are vaccinated “do not carry the virus, don’t get sick”
President Biden: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
And Fauci: “If you’re vaccinated you don’t have a risk, and that’s the reason why we say it’s as simple as black and white. You’re vaccinated. You’re safe.”
Then CDC Director Walensky: Those who are vaccinated “do not carry the virus, don’t get sick”
LIAR. NEVER, EVER SAID THAT, YOU BOOB
“NEVER, EVER SAID THAT”
March 29, 2021, MSNBC interview
suggesting that people who have been fully vaccinated almost never carry the coronavirus.
don’t bother me again
wow lots of uninformed TDS sufferers here today, are you afraid to google certain topics? Afraid the leftys have your search history and will ostracize you for it?
It’s such a hoot how people are *absolutely certain* something never happened–because they didn’t see the proof that it DID happen–never apologize when someone show’s em the video that proves it did. Walensky did say exactly what the earlier poster said she said. But the anonymous Fauci-sucker claims it nevah happened, eh?
what a liar
Fauci? Absolutely! A thousand pages of him telling the truth to his diary, totally contradicting what he was saying to the American public. WOW, what a hoot! And even better are all the Fauci fan-girls who still claim he only told the truth, eh?
The media’s response is telling of who they are. There is nothing to dispute here as all the contradictions delivered to the public were revealed by Fauci’s own words. He can’t deny what he said and really thought.
the depth of danny’s idiocy is exceeded only by the number of times he comments
the depth of Daniel’s idiocy is exceeded only by the number of times he comments
I was looking to quote AIDS activist Larry Kramer’s “An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci,”, San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 1988, only to find ir has been scrubbed from the internet, and a much less harsh easay, years later in the Village Voice, offered as a substitute.
This Orwellian memory holing of Fauci’s history is doubleplusungood.
In the actual open letter, Kramer called Fauci a “liar,” a “murderer,” and a “pill pushing pimp.”
A man of shrewd insight, that Kramer.
yes he did but Fauci came around and was a fierce advocate for HIV treatments thereafter
https://www.villagevoice.com/an-open-letter-to-dr-anthony-fauci/
Again , another comment from mommy’s closet.
So what? The point is that the original letter has been scrubbed.
yes but if we have a ‘scientist-in-charge’ and we have to wait for him to ‘come around’ to the scientific truth, we have a problem with people dying as a result.
Why is the scientific process abandoned and replaced by a scientist hierarchy to ‘decide’ science? Better to control the ‘scientific narrative’ of the left!
I also don’t hear a lot of scientists setting the record straight scientifically on the whole public conundrum of “what is a woman?”, or the origins of man when these topics come up. We have the same problem with “Historians” and many ‘academics’. They’ve all spent their ‘authority’ frivolously.
Yes, this relatively benign Village Voice letter not only remains, but is offered as a substitute for Kramer’s scathing Examiner letter.
No one has a count of the percentage of Americans who think of Dr. Fauci as a weasel and a monstrous bureaucrat, versus the size of the population who consider him a saint and a scientist. Both groups appear to be vast.
It’s the percenatge of media that always falls on one side that bothers me more.
I do not see how, other than being completely misinformed or politically insincere, anyone can sincerely support fauci.
I so look forward to Mr Turley’s next learned article, perchance, on why Fox “legal experts” are perhaps not the best people to act as prosecutors, and what should be the sanctions on Ms Pirro for seeking to imprison innocent people to cover up Donnie’s poor choice of decorators?
Lance Armstrong was a hero once, too. Lance, at least, had sufficient grace to fall on his sword when the facts piled up on him. No one should hold their breath waiting for Dr. Fauci to do the same.
Dog-and-Pony Shows Will Not Satiate Our COVID Bloodlust
Unindicted COVID warlord Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing yesterday, as anticipated, delivered neither answers nor justice for his crimes.
By: Benjamin Bartee ~ Jul 30, 2026
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/dog-and-pony-shows-will-not-satiate
Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point out that these incidents are cumulative and they light a growing fire within the collective memory. Eventually, people are going to snap if they don’t see action taken to rectify past wrongs.
By: Brandon Smith ~ July 31, 2026
https://alt-market.us/chaos-agent-anthony-fauci-represents-a-system-that-needs-to-be-cleansed/
This is one of those columns where Turley condemns mainstream media for not parroting rightwing media. Like it’s just so ‘obvious’ that Fauci’s a villain. Never mind RFK Jr and the destruction he has caused to Health & Human Services. Never mind Donald Trump who turned against the vaccines that his administration developed. Never mind the Chinese who actually engaged in the real cover-up. Instead Turley wants to prosecute Fauci because Fox News producers have ordered that spin.
Please cite the constitution for a legal basis for a health and human services department—Congress may tax for debt, defense, and “general Welfare,” and health and human services are nowhere near general, as is all, or the whole.
Of course, you cannot.
That is a department of pure and only unconstitutional communism.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Please cite where the Air Force is mentioned in the Constitution. You can’t! It’s a rump branch of the military.
Hey dumb-dumb , There was No Air Force until 1947….
The Air Furce is either a branch of the Army, and thus cannot exist for more than two years at a time, or it is an aerial Navy, which can last forever.
Please cite where in the Constitution there is a legal basis for ICE. Of course, you cannot. That is an agency of pure, unconstitutional fascist thuggery. 🙂
Article II
I support the Supreme Court’s view of general welfare in Helvering v Davis (1937) over your interpretation, but feel free to bring a lawsuit challenging the the constitutionality of HHS so that the judicial branch has a case or controversy to rule on.
Let’s get rid of weather satellites! They’re unconstitutional. Every state must fund their own space program!
The real cover up?
If 50s nuclear physicists acted like Fauci’s virologists today, half the planet would be uninhabitable.
Wow , a blind robot explaining the beauty of nature…… Fauci is a rotten to the core LIAR. His filth caused death rivaling the NAZI SS and LEFTWING idiot robots
keep defending his filth. What planet are you on ? FOX News producers producing spin ? You mean FOX has finally started to lie like ABC , CBS , NBC ,PBS and MSLSD ???? You are trying to defend a lying , filthy , corrupted piece of manure who helped develop and manufacture a poison that killed and infected millions and blame it on PRESIDENNT Donald J. Trump just like the afore mentioned liars want you to do little robot.
You mean TRUMP is to blame for all the filth and lies the demorat congress ,and their allies in the corrupt media foisted on him ? Then idiots like you lied , cheated and put Joey Bid-on-me and Camel-ugh into offices they never honestly won , only to blame PRESIDENT Trump ? You are smart in one thing , just like the liars in the leftwing press and their demorat bosses in Congress and the Senate , you remain anonymous. Maybe you could sign it Anonymous due to brainectomy .
““Prosecutors said that after the indictment, the Interior Department ‘provided additional documents to the USAO-DC indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings,’” NBC reported.”
Wait, trump already convicted the guy. Was trump lying?