Republicans are down so dangerous proper now that they’re revisiting the COVID-19 pandemic and try accountable Dr. Anthony Fauci for the way it was dealt with.
Dr. Fauci must be having fun with retirement and the summer time together with his household. Nonetheless, as an alternative he needed to journey to Capitol Hill for a GOP-led congressional listening to on the origins of COVID and the way Trump led the response, which shortly turned contentious when Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Modification greater than 100 occasions to keep away from the opportunity of giving Republicans ammo they may use to prosecute him for perjury presumably.
Fauci, the previous head of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, instantly had Republicans on the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee of their emotions, particularly Rand Paul, whom Fauci straight known as out, saying in his opening assertion that the Kentucky Senator had an “unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution.”
On the finish of the listening to, committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., mentioned he would name for a vote to carry Fauci in contempt of Congress. After the listening to, Rand mentioned the committee would vote on the problem subsequent week.
Social Media Got here To The Protection of Dr. Fauci
The entire waste of taxpayers’ cash was not a success with social media, with many calling out Republicans for attempting to relitigate the occasions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“So asking sitting Sen. Mitch McConnell to show that he can serve after being within the hospital for over a month is a ‘marketing campaign ploy’ in keeping with Rand Paul however pulling Dr. Fauci out of retirement to reply questions on COVID from 6 years in the past for the tenth time isn’t????,” one consumer wrote on X, previously Twitter.
David Axelrod mentioned on X, “There was loads senators may have requested Dr. Fauci about what classes he discovered, and the nation ought to, from the COVID pandemic. As an alternative they engaged in an apparent try and demonize and entrap the 85-year-old, who obtained the Medal of Freedom from a Republican POTUS for the work he did to avoid wasting tens of millions right here and overseas from the AIDS epidemic. This was not about public well being. It was about one senators longstanding vendetta.”
The place’s the lie?
It’s a rattling disgrace how Republicans, like Ohio senator Bernie Moreno, who hilariously has his personal drama involving Ohio Rep. Max Miller, who allegedly threatened to kill his ex-wife Emily Moreno, the daughter of the Ohio senator, handled Fauci, a person who gave his lfie to serving his nation.
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