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Thursday, July 30, 2026

The anti-Trump resistance has settled on its Anthony Fauci narrative. The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday was a witch hunt. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who deeply influenced the restrictive guidelines during the Covid pandemic, had no choice. The good doctor had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It's a nice story, but the camera doesn't lie. More than an hour into the proceedings, Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, exposed the stone wall strategy. He requested those in the audience to stand up if they had paid a professional, legal, or personal price for dissenting from Covid orthodoxies during the pandemic. The senator then asked Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci refused.

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Many hundreds of thousands of Americans who "dissented from COVID orthodoxies" died. Their deaths were brutal. This must be the classic losing argument. But I guess that the evidence was literally buried, and so a fascist cycle of myth finds room to propagate.

Donald Trump and MAGA behaved like superstitious loons in 2020. Now, the destruction to themselves in the year failed to wake them up. Now they all nurse their wounded fee-fees. Buy a clue: COVID ne er cared about your sick pride.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-30 10:51 AM | Reply

'The Free Press', lmao.... Barry Weiss' personal Israel First propaganda machine.

www.google.com

One might also not that:

"This funding sparked a fierce political and legal battle over whether the experiments technically qualified as "gain-of-function".

Senator Rand Paul has aggressively campaigned against former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing him of funding dangerous "supervirus" engineering and trying to cover up a lab leak.

Dr. Fauci has consistently maintained that the NIH-funded research did not meet the strict regulatory definition of dangerous GoF enhancement, making a pandemic strain molecularly impossible to emerge from those specific trials."

www.google.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-30 11:03 AM | Reply

"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.

"Paul also ordered Fauci's lawyer removed from the committee room for trying to speak.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said the hearing is part of a "campaign against science" that "has made this country less safe."

"If there are valid scientific questions about the origins of this pandemic ... they should certainly be addressed, but not in a show trial, not as part of a continuing vendetta against a single individual," Blumenthal said."

Excerpts, more on the far right Conspiracy Theory witch hunt at the link:

www.axios.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-30 11:06 AM | Reply

How are we any closer to the truth? How are we going to get closer?

Fauci is the only witness called. Are there any others?

Can an argument be made Fauci's silence is the last word (LOL) on the matter?

What "truth" does this committee plan to produce? If they aren't going to call any other witnesses (and Fauci knew this which is actually why it might have been easier to plead the 5th) then what truth is going to emerge?

As Senator Blumenthal said....."they(questions) should be addressed"

The committee had to know Fauci wasn't going to give them anything.

They can vote on contempt but then what??

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 11:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fauci had no reason to plead the 5th. Biden's handlers gave him a blanket pardon so it was impossible for him to incriminate himself so long as he answered questions truthfully. Yet he wouldn't even do that.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-30 11:33 AM | Reply

Donald Trump has stated that Fauci's pardon is void.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-30 11:35 AM | Reply

I don't know if it was truly a "blanket pardon".

Not even sure what that means. I would imagine the pardon has defined parameters. defined offenses, defined time period.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 11:47 AM | Reply

Fauci: "Wear masks."
Pedo Republicans: "No!"

Fauci: "Socially distance."
Pedo Republicans: "No!"

Fauci: "Take the vaccine."
Pedo Republicans: "No!"

*million Americans die*

Pedo Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"

These stupid Pedophiles can't even tell us what Fauci did wrong. But the Pedos will talk about anything they can to avoid discussing grocery prices, oil prices, Epstein, the Iran war, manufacturing job losses, murdering US citizens, home prices, measles, Trump grifting, hospitals closing, lettuce -----, and everything else they ------ up.

This is how stupid Pedos like Jeff are.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-07-30 12:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#8 | Posted by Pedophant

How many times have you been raped?

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:02 PM | Reply

" This is how stupid Pedos like Jeff are.

#8 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2026-07-30 12:00 PM | REPLY"

Pedo! *drink*

You may be the biggest hack on this site and that is really saying something.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-30 12:05 PM | Reply

The truth is Patricide Jeff's child-raping hero had mass graves that were visible from space.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-30 12:23 PM | Reply

#8

Great post... I bet all Trumpybelle had in Retort was ad hominem.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-30 12:26 PM | Reply

" This is how stupid Pedos like Jeff are.
#8 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2026-07-30 12:00 PM | REPLY"
Pedo! *drink*
You may be the biggest hack on this site and that is really saying something.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

No denials of #8.

No defenses to #8.

No arguments to #8.

Just a Pedophile posting a sad, weak, crybaby whine for all to read.

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-07-30 01:01 PM | Reply

#13 You constantly post straw and BS. I am not going to respond to false allegations. It's plain dumb and so are you.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-30 01:05 PM | Reply

#8 | Posted by Pedophant
How many times have you been raped?
#9 | Posted by eberly

That response was almost as useless as Jeff's tantrum.

You already know the answers to your question at #4. There is no "truth" to produce here. It's just a tantrum by Republican pedophiles trying to ignore all the ---- they've screwed up.

You sit on the fence so hard they'll be pulling splinters out of your ass until the day you die.

#15 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-07-30 01:05 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by Pedophant

You expect anybody to believe you think that many people are the pedophiles you're calling them?

Including Bellringer?

Nobody, not even Corky (the ad hominem police), believes that.

THAT is why you're a hack.

not the hypocrisy and ignorance of the GOP you pointed out.

It's your creepy obsession with pedos.

It is agreed upon here 100% of the time as an admission of your own transgressions.

IOW, everyone here thinks you're a disgusting POS pedophile.

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:06 PM | Reply

15

Congrats. You managed to use the word "pedophile" only once in a single post.

That's improvement.

Although it's for nothing. You won't convince anyone here you're not a pedophile.

Not with that level of obsession.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:08 PM | Reply

#17

Congrats. You managed to call someone, "Pedophant".

The Party and people that supports a Pres who is currently breaking the Law by still withholding millions of Epstein Files deserves every bit of the heat they get for doing so.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-30 01:11 PM | Reply

-You sit on the fence so hard they'll be pulling splinters out of your ass until the day you die.

wow, you reveal more and more with every post.

My fence sitting angers you. Why on earth should it bother you?

Yet somehow it does. You expect something here you can't have.

Nobody is your friend here, Pedophant.

Nobody

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:14 PM | Reply

18

It's just temper tantrum by a lonely internet wannabe begging for attention.

So I'm giving him some attention. It's all he wants.

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:16 PM | Reply

- a lonely internet wannabe begging for attention.

Psychological projection is one of my fav things about this place.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-30 01:18 PM | Reply

-Psychological projection is one of my fav things about this place.

just mine.

you pretend you don't see it when someone is hurling their purse at folks screaming if it's in the right direction.

No, you don't care about any of that stuff. just when certain people do it.

it's "deserved" when it satisfies your lust for political punditry.

If you had any dignity or decency whatsoever, you'd see that display for what it is.

But you can't. Instead......you're defending it.

LOL

#22 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:22 PM | Reply

Anyhoo, Fauci's appearance could be used in law school classes to illustrate how/why one assists a client in avoiding an obvious perjury trap. The MAGAts' jackals-in-a-pack behavior might help introduce students to the sort of smarmy hectoring customarily associated with the Inquisition, purge sessions in communist nations, and Roland Freislers antics in Hitler's People's Court.

#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-30 01:24 PM | Reply

23

I think it helps Fauci knew he was the only witness. If he knew there were others who intended on not taking the 5th, then it might make him look worse doing it.

Perhaps a misstep by this committee. You would think they could have lined up others to talk talk talk....and tell them what they want to hear.

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 01:27 PM | Reply

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