What he’s saying: Paul has an “unhinged obsession with me,” and his motive for the hearing is to “get me to say something — anything — that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars unquote,” Fauci said.
“Although it pains me to do so … under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci said.
It’s frustrating, but an entirely correct response from Fauci, because this isn’t and was never about facts or data or science at all. The hearing is political kabuki of the absolute dumbest variety.
I can’t wait for the headlines that take this as an admission of guilt and confirmation of all those stupid conspiracy theories
Ah, so that means all the times orangeboi did the same thing it was also an admission of guilt, right? Because that is the correct response to such an unrepentantly imbecilic line of logic.
But to be clear, orangeboi 100% did rape underage girls, amongst a whole fuckload of other heinous things.
I saw a reel where Hawley said “nothing says honesty like taking the fifth, hey doc”? And then stared at Fauci like he just got owned, not realizing he looks like a moron for saying that.
My Facebook “friend” already posted he and his conspiracy theorist friends are “batting a thousand” based on this new revelation.
Course the Trump supporters will ignore the fact he said it 400 times or so during a deposition cause he’s obviously innocent. Apparently that was only in 2022 but I’m sure they just missed that in their news.
Those headlines are already out. Idiots like Rand Paul are already saying it.
I had to turn one clip off because some idiot from Florida kept bragging about how her state was the state of freedom and how the federal government came in and opposed totalitarian restrictions.
This is like the McCarthy hearings, that also targeted civil servants. Except this time it is everybody that doesn’t kiss the ring.
Absolutely crazy, absolutely without reason, USA is a shitty country, and nobody is doing anything!
The logical result of electing an obvious malignant narcissist, and the American people went ahead and did it anyway.
USA as a country and society has gone insane.If they had something he’d be charged. This is a fishing expedition, hoping an 85 year old might slip up and say something that they can frame as incriminating.
Wow, he looks pretty good for 85 and all the shit he’s been through. Compare that face to all the other >=75 year-olds in DC politics.
They need a new episode for the maga crowd 🙄
Well, if they get bored they could remember about that thing we tere talking about before that was never really concluded… it sounds so long ago now. Einstein files? Ephaim files?
Everyone’s just glossing over the personal diary bit. How the hell does a Congress member get someones personal diary?
Part or all of it was written using ‘federal property’ aka probably his laptop.
Is that like for programmers when the corp tells them that everything they code on company time belongs to the corp?
Let’s talk more about the child raping rather than this sideshow bullshit.
Why not? Anytime the republicans get questioned they same the same thing, or, “I cant remember.”
They never answer the question.
They usually flip out like screaming shit-gibbons who just got goosed.
The 5th is a great right, glad we have it
Always listen to the advice of your lawyer.
Awww cmooon, step into my bear trap. Commmme ooooon. Step into the awww…
Ok open fire.
This is Hillary Bengaze redeux.
edit Jesus, is reading comprehension this bad on Lemmy, or is this post just full of people who love Trump and his bullshit? I’m not saying Fauci is bad. I’m not saying Obama is bad. I will add an ELI5 bullet point tldr for yall.
tl;dr:
- Trump&co worried bout midterms in case they can’t cancel or rig them enough.
- NIH funding for corona virus studies in Wuhan started when Obama happened to be President.
- Dumb Trumpians starting to stop believing all his shit.
- Trump hate Obama. Trump think if he can get Fauci slip up and say something he can twist into “OBAMA MADE COVID” his dumdums will believes it and votes for him again.
- The US Govt is not super trustworthy. Sometimes they do or pay for bad things. Sometimes they lies.
Well, of course Fauci took the Fifth. The NIH, headed by Fauci, had authorized and directly funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study Gain of Function research to increase the transmissibility of bat corona viruses in humans. Research into making viruses just like the Corona virus more transmissible in humans, at that lab right near where Corona first appeared. I posses enough suspension of disbelief to think elves and magic are real, but not enough to believe that’s a coincidence.
The US has done it’s damndest to act like it had no involvement in Corona. To either pin it on China since that’s where it appeared or insist it’s origins can’t be known. I’m sure 40 years from now there will be a batch of documents declassified that admit the US was directly responsible for the fuck up that led to the deaths of a shitload of people… because that’s what pretty much every batch of files the US declassifies after virtually everyone involved has shuffled off this mortal coil always shows.
That’s not saying Fauci should be in jail. That’s not saying I’m a fan of the idiot Republican response and witch hunt. It’s stupid and likely a Trumpian ploy to try to blame Obama and Democrats for Covid as the NIH began funding WIV in 2014.
Fauci was simply doing his job. The US government was funding a very bad line of research, that went very wrong, then lied about it and covered it up, and moved that research to different facilities as the US government tends to do. It’s something the US government and people in it should answer for, and things that should come out into the light. But this isn’t any attempt to honestly do that. This is Trump’s evil puppeteers trying to find a way to pin something huge and awful on Democrats before the midterms in case his other plans to rig or cancel the elections don’t pan out.
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Would you be willing to point out what exactly I said that seems crazy to you?
Uh… Waitress? Yeah… Um… Can I have some of whatever the hell you gave this guy?
Lost at the confusion here. The NIH funding and it’s dates, the research that was being done, the location of the lab doing that exact research being exactly where Covid started appearing, all of that stuff is public record. Those are just simple facts.
Are you all saying that even though the US Government was paying for research to be done into making bat corona viruses more transmissible in humans at WIV, and right then during said research a bat corona virus that is surprisingly transmissible in humans appears for the first time, right beside that very same laboratory… you all believe that’s just an amazing coincidence?
It makes more sense to you that Covid was really spread to humans because some wild bats bit some random unknown animal that ended up in the market right beside where we were paying for bat corona virus research to be done… and that passing through this unknown animal is what just happened to make it extra transmissible in humans, the same thing that was being researched on the same viruses right next door? Even though that’s never been shown or traced or ever shown up again in any other sample in any other area meat market in all the years since? Because the super trustworthy US Government that never lies or covers anything up said they had no idea what happened?
I don’t get it. I know Trump lies constantly, virtually every time he talks… but he didn’t invent having the US government lie and cover shit up and deny any responsibility or involvement. That’s been a thing for a very long time. The US government has committed loads of atrocities and then lied and covered them up.
From the Trail of Tears to Operation Wetback to overthrowing South American governments and invading the Middle East, to the CIA turning a blind eye or taking part in cocaine flooding the inner cities, to ICE gunning down innocent people in public every other day… our government has done a lot of terrible things. And they almost always lie about those things and only release the truth decades later when random batches of documents everyone stopped caring about end up declassified.
Why is the US government being connected to the Corona Virus something people see as insane? What do you think they would do if a virus they’d been funding making spread easier through humans accidentally got out in a lab leak and millions of people across the world started panicking and dying?
Own up to it? Say “Our bad on that one. We apologize to the people of the world. Stay inside, don’t go near each other, close your businesses, and hopefully only a few million older folks will die because of this.”
7 to potentially 35 millions people globally died from Covid. Do you genuinely believe any country would be willing to admit responsibility in that? To have endless demands for repayment for medical costs, financial losses to businesses, financial losses to other governments, lawsuits for compensation for untimely death of relatives, etc, etc?
The one country who (before Trump) saw itself as the global leader for justice and freedom and insisted had China or any large rival overtaken them the would would be plunged into evil communist hell, admitting to responsibility for something that would almost certainly have a large negative effect on their standing throughout the world and definitely do that unless they paid out trillions in compensation?
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Laugh Out. Loud. That’s a lot of words to explain your batshittery.
Feel free to let me know what you find crazy or even unreasonable about it.
I took the time to fully convey my thoughts on the topic. I know that words can be tuff and thinking can make your head ouchy, but I believe in you and think that if you really try you could muster up some genuine thoughts and response instead of making yourself look like an idiot.
I know your mom and I don’t say it very often, but we’re not completely disappointed in you. Make us proud, slugger.
