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Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Paul, touch on COVID origins, Trump

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul released more than a thousand pages of journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, teeing up what is likely to be a contentious hearing on Wednesday.

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Trump explodes after surprise attack with curse-laden threat: 'Going to get a beating'

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Trump explodes after surprise attack with curse-laden threat: 'Going to get a beating'

President Donald Trump erupted Wednesday following a surprise Iranian attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan earlier that morning, vowing to respond with a curse-laden threat.“We are going to beat the f------ s--- out of them,” Trump told Fox News, according to Trey Yingst. “We'll be hitting them hard, they're going to get a beating.”Following a brief lull in strikes between the United States and Iran, the U.S. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan came under fire early morning Wednesday from a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles. No casualties have been reported as of Wednesday morning.“So clearly, the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a 'surprise attack,' he says U.S. forces had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles,” Yingst said. “The president says he has reviewed video of the shoot down, and it was U.S. forces conducting this operation to defend that area. He said it was real time, they were calling out coordinates and ensuring that none of this incoming Iranian fire got through.”Iran’s Revolutionary Guard acknowledged it had launched strikes at the U.S. base, according to the Associated Press, setting the stage for another round of escalation between the United States and Iran.“Again, President Trump telling Fox News 'we are going to beat the f-ing S out of them,' and that U.S. strikes will take place against Iran in response to the surprise attack overnight against U.S. forces in Jordan,” Yingst said."We are going to beat the f****** s*** out of them"- Trump in response to Iran's suprise attack on US base in Jordan pic.twitter.com/aDuzi9j1bB— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) July 29, 2026

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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment right at Paul’s hearing

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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment right at Paul’s hearing

Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, invoked his Fifth Amendment right on Wednesday when he appeared before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing held by the committee’s chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). In his opening remarks, Fauci blasted Paul’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution.” The two have a…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing bombshell

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Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing bombshell

Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment at the start of his Wednesday hearing, ripping Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for “unhinged” remarks and claiming the only purpose of the Homeland Security Committee’s investigation was to put him “behind bars.” “Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me,...

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BREAKING: Dr. Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment and Will Not Testify at Senate Hearing on His Actions During COVID Epidemic – The Monster Will Not Testify! (Video)

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BREAKING: Dr. Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment and Will Not Testify at Senate Hearing on His Actions During COVID Epidemic – The Monster Will Not Testify! (Video)

Dr. The post BREAKING: Dr. Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment and Will Not Testify at Senate Hearing on His Actions During COVID Epidemic – The Monster Will Not Testify! (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Dr. Fauci invokes his Fifth Amendment right not to testify at Senate hearing

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Dr. Fauci invokes his Fifth Amendment right not to testify at Senate hearing

During his opening statement, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right and will refrain from answering questions from Senators in their probe of his Covid pandemic response.

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Trump's worst fear revealed as he faces GOP 'reckoning': analyst

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Trump's worst fear revealed as he faces GOP 'reckoning': analyst

President Donald Trump, not even halfway through his second term in office, is about to see his worst fear realized as he faces a reckoning within the Republican Party, according to a new analysis. The Atlantic analyst Jonathan Lemire argued this week that Trump has "crashed into reality" as he "flails" both internationally and domestically. "Recent months have delivered a reckoning for Trump, who has crashed hard against some real limits," wrote Lamire. "His approval numbers have sunk, and Republicans are finally, in small doses, beginning to defy him." The president predicted his war with Iran would be a quick surgical strike but it has now metastasized into a five-month quagmire with mounting casualties, depleted weapons stockpiles, and surging gas prices making him "just the latest U.S. president to be humiliated by hard-liners in Tehran," wrote Lemire.National policy has stymied as well. "Trump has demanded that the Senate blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, which would make voting more difficult and require voters to provide proof of citizenship," Lemire noted. "But Republicans have refused." Once the midterms conclude, Trump will face the grim future, he wrote."Trump could face his worst fear," wrote Lemire. "Irrelevance. He will be a lame duck, down to his final two years in office, and at some point will no longer be the nation’s top topic of conversation. As focus shifts to the presidential primaries, Trump risks disappearing from the headlines. Even some of his closest allies don’t know how he’ll react," he wrote.What comes next for Trump looks worse, Lemire wrote."Trump may no longer be among each day’s top stories—arguably for the first time since he came down the Trump Tower escalator more than a decade ago. It’s not as if he will suddenly vanish; he’ll aim to play GOP kingmaker, and he’ll still be commander in chief. But he’ll be staring at life as a private citizen again," he predicted.

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Trump says US will ‘beat the f—ing s—‘ out of Iran after surprise missile attack

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Trump says US will ‘beat the f—ing s—‘ out of Iran after surprise missile attack

WASHINGTON -- President Trump vowed Wednesday to "beat the f—ing s— out of" Iran in response to a surprise missile attack by the Islamic Republic targeting US troops stationed in Jordan.

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Trump spills on supposed call to Biden after 2020 defeat: 'The rest is history!'

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Trump spills on supposed call to Biden after 2020 defeat: 'The rest is history!'

President Donald Trump revealed new details Wednesday regarding a supposed phone call he had with former President Joe Biden following his 2020 election loss, one that he claimed was “well received,” but “not acted on.”Trump’s claim was couched in a lengthy rant shared on his social media platform Truth Social against Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022. Trump downplayed Fauci’s influence during his first administration, while alleging that Biden later made the health official a “king.”“Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a ‘King!’” Trump wrote. “I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn’t have a clue, or was dishonest. The call was well received, but sadly, not acted on. Biden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power. The rest is history!”Fauci has come under renewed scrutiny after the publication of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary. He’s scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, where he’s expected to be questioned on his knowledge of gain of function research and the origins of the COVID-19 virus.“His ideas were CRAZY! Also, I said from the beginning that the Virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China. Fauci strongly disagreed, always trying to protect China. I Inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980’s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him,” Trump wrote. “He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker. In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to. I went the Federalist way, and let the governors decide. The Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats.”

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Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Paul, touch on COVID origins, Trump

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