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More: The party-line vote approving the contempt resolution came a week after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-08-06 09:50 AM | Reply

Witch hunt.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-06 09:56 AM | Reply

Is this the same contempt the co-chair is under???

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-06 10:00 AM | Reply

Is this the same contempt the co-chair is under???

#3 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

Yep.

It underscores that Fauci is entirely wise not to trust these bastards and not to give them an inch.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-06 10:02 AM | Reply

POTUS Joe Biden's pre-emptive pardon does not protect Dr Anthony Fauci from contempt of congress charges.

Dr Fauci, who entered federal service at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968 and thus avoided the draft and combat in SE Asia, may have been better treated by the NVA or Vietcong than by his fellow Americans.

The detestable Rand Paul (R-KY) should befall a "hit and run" accident or catch a lethal bout of "Exploding A__ Disease" forthwith.

Please.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-06 10:17 AM | Reply

We all watched the little troll take the fifth. Open and shut case.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 12:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

But its okay when trump pleads the 5th after saying only guilty people do that.

You're in a cult.

#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-06 12:17 PM | Reply

We all watched the little troll take the fifth. Open and shut case.
#6 | Posted by visitor_

That's actually quite funny. By taking the fifth, he provided no evidence. There isn't even a case to open.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-06 12:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

When Trump takes the 5th, don't you assume he's guilty or hiding something?

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 01:05 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

When Trump takes the 5th, don't you assume he's guilty or hiding something?
#9 | Posted by visitor_

I don't have to assume Trump is guilty.
Trump has been found guilty of 34 felonies.
Fauci has been found guilty of zero felonies.

Do you think Trump and Fauci are on equal footing, when it comes to telling the truth?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-06 01:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Do you think Trump and Fauci are on equal footing, when it comes to telling the truth? Yes, yes I do.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 01:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Re 11

Absolutely Nothing Trumpy says can be trusted without verification from at least TWO RELIABLE SOURCES.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a decorated physician-scientist with over 50 years of public service. He served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and advised seven U.S. presidents.

Dr Fauci is one of those reliable sources.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 02:12 PM | Reply

Trump is a BSer. Fauci is a liar. Fauci's notes to himself in his diary don't match his public statements.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 02:50 PM | Reply

A reliable source doesn't need an unprecedented sweeping pardon and then take the 5th a hundred or more times.

#14 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 02:55 PM | Reply

A reliable source doesn't need an unprecedented sweeping pardon

#14 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Trump/MAGA doesn't care about Fauci's pardon.

It's like that reflecting pool "vandal". Fauci is a man they've decided they want in jail.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-06 02:57 PM | Reply

@#15 ... Trump/MAGA doesn't care about Fauci's pardon. ...

The pardon only works at the Federal level.

If State AGs decide to go after Dr Fauci, the pardon won't stop them.

3 state attorneys general subpoena Anthony Fauci
thehill.com

That's likely another reason why he took the 5th ...

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-06 03:05 PM | Reply

Call me when they issue a special extention to the statute of limitations or file charges based on the memo field of a personal check.

#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 03:12 PM | Reply

Noel Casler Comedy
@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social
Dr. Fauci spent his life trying to save children, Trump spent his life trying to --- them. You're going after the wrong guy, GOP.

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-06 03:13 PM | Reply

In the Trump didn't molest any kids but Fauci's recommendations killed thousands of them.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 03:18 PM | Reply

"Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt"

The man was obviously doing something correct to be held in contempt by this Senate.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-06 03:20 PM | Reply

The disgusting orange loves raping 13 year olds who resemble Ivanka and filling mass graves.

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-06 03:21 PM | Reply

In the Trump didn't molest any kids but Fauci's recommendations killed thousands of them.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ FREUDIAN FLAG: Takes it in the Trump.

#22 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-06 03:21 PM | Reply

Call me when anyone issues a special "extension" to the statute of limitations or file charges based on the memo field of a personal check.

It's never happened. You are a poor lost soul babbling desperately about nonsense for attention.

Good luck with that.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 03:24 PM | Reply

Fauci's notes to himself in his diary don't match his public statements.
#13 | Posted by visitor_ at

Visitor: Let's look at what you say versus your real thoughts. Probably more consistent on the Retort than anywhere else in your life.

What do you say to whoever writes your checks? Same as what you think about them?

[Presuming employment here.]

Then again, people who keep diaries are usually literate and at least self-reflective. Don't expect a flood of diaries from the Trump cabal.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-06 03:25 PM | Reply

Call me when they issue a special extention to the statute of limitations or file charges based on the memo field of a personal check.

#17 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

It's never happened. So you can call me too when it does.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 03:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

In the Trump didn't molest any kids but Fauci's

#19 | POSTED BY VISITOR

1) I'll bet that he did. release the Epstein Files. Let's find out.

2) Bets aside, it's completely clear that Trump is covering for people who molested kids.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-06 04:00 PM | Reply

We about to find out what that pre-emptive pardon is really worth.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-06 04:26 PM | Reply

We about to find out what that pre-emptive pardon is really worth.

#27 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

What you are actually about to get is a lesson in how the constitution works. Again.

Though I doubt you will learn anything. Again.

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 04:33 PM | Reply

When Trump takes the 5th, don't you assume he's guilty or hiding something?

#9 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Nope.

I assume Trumpy is ALWAYS guilty or hiding something. Turns out it's a pretty safe assumption.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 04:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In his diary he mentions a meeting in which 10 out of 12 scientists believe that not only was it a lab leak but that the virus appeared to have been artificially manipulated. What did he say publicly at that time?

#30 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 08:31 PM | Reply

You're a ------- lying pile if ----. ---- off, MAGAT scum

#31 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-06 08:49 PM | Reply

In the Trump didn't molest any kids but Fauci's recommendations killed thousands of them.

#19 | Posted by visitor_

He punched a 13 year old girl who bit his ---- after he tried to force her to suck it.

"The FBI summaries state the alleged victim recalls being introduced to Trump who immediately disliked her because she was a "boy-girl" " meaning a tomboy. She claims when left alone in a room with him, Trump said "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be", unzipped his pants and forced her head down to his penis.[260] The report says she then immediately "bit the ---- out of it", and that in response he "pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head". Trump said something to the effect of "get this little bitch the hell out of here" and kicked her out.[259] She told the FBI she bit him because he "disgusted" her."

en.wikipedia.org

#32 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-08-06 08:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Sorry, not sorry, St. Fauci is no saint.

#33 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 08:53 PM | Reply

What do the independent witnesses say about that alleged incident?

#34 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 08:55 PM | Reply

#32 | POSTED BY GTBRITISHSKULL

You're giving Visitor_ a chub.

The only reason he isn't raping children is he's way too fat and poor to get one.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-06 09:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I tell you what, Clownshack and Gtbritishskull, you bite my ---- and I'll do more than just punch you.

#36 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-06 10:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

We all watched the little troll take the fifth. Open and shut case.
#6 | Posted by visitor_

Sorry, not sorry, St. Fauci is no saint.
#33 | Posted by visitor_

Well there you have it.
Fauci is guilty... of not being a saint.
Case CLOSED.

You have nothing but hurt feelings.

In a way, it's good.

There's a tiny shred of humanity wriggling around inside you.

Your last remaining shred of human decency regrets that it was your hands ended the lives of all the people you put on ventilators.

The rest of your psyche, which is broken, wants revenge for that.

So you blame Fauci.

You were Just Following Orders.

You're a victim here too.

That's true.

But if you can't forgive yourself, no amount of persecuting Fauci will make you feel better.

Please get professional help. What you are doing to yourself here is causing you harm, and you need to stop.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-06 10:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#36

Poor sad little MAGAT can't get a date. Try brushing your teeth once in a while

#38 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-06 10:56 PM | Reply

No such thing as a good Republican in the time of Trump, he is about doing to America what the Russian billionaires did to Russia as the Soviet Empire fell. Russia now is a pretend democracy, with its independent media all muzzled, and the rule of law for the rich and powerful friends of the dictator...doesn't exist.

#39 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-07 06:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No person.. shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..

Nuff said.

#40 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-07 10:26 AM | Reply

Amazing the support for a man that used tax dollars to engineer a bioweapon to kill the sick and elderly.

#41 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-07 11:12 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

used tax dollars to engineer a bioweapon to kill the sick and elderly harmless Democrat hoax.

#42 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-07 11:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Pedo 47 rapes and kills children.

#43 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-07 11:31 AM | Reply

Re #41

You sir, are amazingly stupid.

#44 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-07 01:18 PM | Reply

Hellbent on putting Fauci in jail, Rand Paul wants to skip a Senate vote
www.politico.com

... Rand Paul wants to fast-track prosecution of former Covid czar Anthony Fauci.

The legal process will be fraught.

After the Kentucky Republican pushed a contempt of Congress resolution through his Senate committee on party lines Thursday morning " saying Fauci had impeded his investigation of the pandemic by refusing to answer questions last week " Democrats demanded he take it to the full Senate for a vote they could filibuster. Paul said he's going to instead take it straight to the attorney general.

For Fauci, the difference is massive. A failed Senate vote to hold him in contempt would show he's still got defenders after Republicans released a diary showing his enthusiasm for fame and then grilled him while he took the Fifth. A referral to the attorney general puts a decision on prosecution in the hands of a Trump Justice Department that has shown it's willing to play politics.

"Maybe he should" be prosecuted, President Donald Trump told reporters about Fauci on Thursday, referencing the contempt prosecutions of two of his allies, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, that began when Democrats controlled Congress. "What he did is far more serious than a lot of crimes."

After his committee voted, Paul said he's sick of waiting to hold his pandemic nemesis accountable. "This way we don't sit a month waiting to determine whether or not to bring it to the Senate floor," he told reporters. "It will immediately be referred over, and I think it's important for them to look at." ...


#45 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-07 01:36 PM | Reply

Amazing the support for a man that used tax dollars to engineer a bioweapon to kill the sick and elderly.

#41 | Posted by visitor

Hmm, I have to wonder why Fauci hasn't been arrested by the FBI since this is such a cut-and-dried case. And who was he working for when the pandemic started?

#46 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-08-07 02:14 PM | Reply

We all watched the little troll take the fifth. Open and shut case.

#6 | Posted by visitor_

It's funny how ignorant and unAmerican the supposedly patriotic right is.

#47 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 02:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Amazing the support for a man that used tax dollars to engineer a bioweapon to kill the sick and elderly.

#41 | Posted by visitor_

Amazing somebody who supposedly works in healthcare would say something so brazenly stupid.

#48 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 04:40 PM | Reply

Visitor is brain dead.

#49 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-07 04:52 PM | Reply

Amazing the support for a man that used tax dollars to engineer a bioweapon to kill the sick and elderly.
#41 | Posted by visitor

Trump put Fauci on the White House Coronavirus Task Force so he could secretly undo the bioweapon, is that how your brain works?

Trump awarded Fauci a Presidential Commendation for hiding China's lab leak of Fauci's bioweapon, is that how your brain works?

You are, in no uncertain terms, insane.

#50 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-07 05:01 PM | Reply

Visitor is brain dead. a troll.

He posts the most blatant trolling comments looking for attention.

At least the person using username BullJohnson/BullBringer pretends they're engaging in conversations.

#51 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-07 05:10 PM | Reply

Trump put Fauci on the White House Coronavirus Democratic Hoax Task Force

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-07 05:12 PM | Reply

Do you think Trump and Fauci are on equal footing, when it comes to telling the truth? Yes, yes I do.

#11 | Posted by visitor_

Because you're a f*&^ing terard.

#53 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:13 PM | Reply

A reliable source doesn't need an unprecedented sweeping pardon and then take the 5th a hundred or more times.

#14 | Posted by visitor_

If you weren't such a stupid pile of s*&^, you'd know that the reason Fauci was given a preemptive pardon was because it was a given that useless, leeching turds like Rand Paul would put on a display of theater and go after him for nothing.

The very existence of these proceedings and this thread are confirmatory evidence that the pardon was necessary.

Now go stick a fork in a light socket you unAmerican s*&^bag.

#54 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:16 PM | Reply

Call me when they issue a special extention to the statute of limitations or file charges based on the memo field of a personal check.

#17 | Posted by visitor_

Call me when you realize the extension wasn't unique or that said memo constitutes physical evidence.

Serious question: other than being a stupid pile of s*&^, what exactly is broken in your brain that you're so deadset on clinging to a complete pile of semi-solid dog s*&^n like Donald Trump? I mean, God damn the whole ------- Reagan's corpse thing was creepy and stupid, but you can go back to that if it means abandoning the current piece of s*&^ you think exemplifies a decent human being (and, therefore, showing what an indecent, absolutely s*&^bag human being you are...).

#55 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:19 PM | Reply

We about to find out what that pre-emptive pardon is really worth.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds

No, you're about to find out how unAmerican and anti-constitution you and the people you vote for are.

Because that's all this is.

And, pathetically, it's all in absolute support and adoration of an actual criminal that you swallowed endless excuses and BS rationales for ignoring their criminal conduct.

#56 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:23 PM | Reply

Reliable sources claim Fauci's diary contains an entry about how he got all his scientific knowledge from some guy he met at the Flying J. restroom stall #3.

#57 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-08-07 05:23 PM | Reply

In his diary he mentions a meeting in which 10 out of 12 scientists believe that not only was it a lab leak but that the virus appeared to have been artificially manipulated. What did he say publicly at that time?

#30 | Posted by visitor_

Link to it.

Because I have a feeling you're full of s*&^ and are just regurgitating a bad interpretation that's been fed to you.

#58 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:25 PM | Reply

Sorry, not sorry, St. Fauci is no saint.

#33 | Posted by visitor_

Herein lies your problem. You, consciously or not, view Trump in a very cultish manner.

So, you assume others must view his perceived adversary in a similarly cultish manner.

But we don't. In fact, the main argument in favor of Fauci is very much that he was a human making human decisions on what information he had available and some was mistaken and corrected as more information came out.

The one thing you stupid s*&^bags always neglect to account for is how countries around the world enacted similar policies and control measures. Was Fauci so all powerful he was also forcing nearly the entire world to follow his whims?

No, of course not. He was proscribing standard public health mitigation measures.

#59 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:29 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

I thought you said you were leaving the country to service Punjabi truckers in Europe? Hurry up and leave.

#60 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-08-07 05:29 PM | Reply

Oh, and when this is all said and done, I hope Rand Paul suffers every manner of consequences for this garbage.

I'm tired of that fake piece of s*&^ leeching off the US populace while doing absolutely nothing of worth or note.

F*&^ him and his hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance.

#61 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:33 PM | Reply

I thought you found CO2 so benign you were going to tie a bag around your head and go to bed?

#62 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:34 PM | Reply

"countries around the world enacted similar policies and control measures."

^
If they engage this historical fact, it will be
from the perspective that all the other countries are liberal, and the USA alone stands for freedom now.

Which is why we have to stop immigration, for example.

It all comes back to Trump saving them from the liberals.

#63 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-07 05:35 PM | Reply

Oh, and BTW moron, I already left.

But since you've apparently never left what ever red state s*&^hole you reside in, you're unaware that Europe has the internet and it actually functions at the speed you pay for (less than half the price without the currency conversion BTW) both WiFi and mobile.

So while it may be shocking to you, I'm currently sitting on my back patio looking at stars, enjoying exceptionally comfortable if not slightly cool temperatures while drinking a Cote de Rhone that would probably cost 3-4 times as much in the states just to suffer the reminder that somewhere always there is some worthless skidmark wandering around sucking up resources and channeling their miserable existence into misery for everyone else around them instead of simply walking off into the nearest wild place and letting their betters live their lives while you piss off and disappear.

#64 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 05:57 PM | Reply

It all comes back to Trump saving them from the liberals.

#63 | Posted by snoofy

Probably. Because their thought (use the word lightly) processes aren't tethered to reality.

I'm sure we'll get lucky and they'll throw in some conspiracy theories about the WHO as well to smooth over the gaps in their "knowledge."

#65 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 06:02 PM | Reply


Trump put Fauci on the White House Coronavirus Task Force so he could secretly undo the bioweapon, is that how your brain works?
Trump awarded Fauci a Presidential Commendation for hiding China's lab leak of Fauci's bioweapon, is that how your brain works?
You are, in no uncertain terms, insane.
#50 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

You realize if you lie about things you get away with things right Snoofy.

He funded science even after Obama issued temporary funding moratorium on new federal grants for gain-of-function research involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses due to safety concerns.

Fauci kept on funding it via an alternative source, the EcoHealth Alliance.

His diary is full of one story in private, then in public tells a different story.

Insane would be to imagining what you posted was happened because Fauci was an honest person.

#66 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-08-07 06:07 PM | Reply

#64
So what do you like better, big Texan truckers or your new Punjabi truckers ?

#67 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-08-07 06:10 PM | Reply

I like you finally giving in to your true feelings and going on a massive, gay tryst bender to get it all out of your system, then either shutting the f*&^ up about it or disappearing entirely to embrace your true self.

Either way, you're not funny, original or interesting. So kindly f*&^ off.

#68 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 06:19 PM | Reply

He funded science even after Obama issued temporary funding moratorium on new federal grants for gain-of-function research involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses due to safety concerns.

He? The director of NIAID personally approved grants that nobody else saw?!?!

Or is this just another area of knowledge that you're spewing garbage about but don't know a damn thing in regards to real knowledge?

You're such a pathetic pile of s*&^.

#69 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-07 06:23 PM | Reply

So what do you like better, big Texan truckers or your new Punjabi truckers ?

#67 | Posted by fortfisher

Maybe we'll just follow your lead.

#70 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-07 06:23 PM | Reply

I thought you said you were leaving the country to service Punjabi truckers in Europe? Hurry up and leave.

#60 | Posted by fortfisher

You are oddly obsessed with this.

To the point that...well, I think its self explanatory.

#71 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-08-07 07:04 PM | Reply

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