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Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

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Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

Rand Paul is trying to put Anthony Fauci in prison for not confirming a conspiracy theory, but the key to blunting the next pandemic is universal healthcare. The post Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is appeared first on The Intercept.

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Daily on Energy: Rising pressure on Senate to pass permitting reform before midterms

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Daily on Energy: Rising pressure on Senate to pass permitting reform before midterms

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Wednesday, readers! The annual Mubadala Citi DC Open is being held this week. Some of the top tennis players will be competing, including Jessica Pegula, Naomi Osaka, Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, and many more. 🎾🎾🎾 A few folks from the Washington Examiner, including Callie, are planning to stop […]

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Media's Fauci Love Affair Might've Buried Covid's Origins

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Media's Fauci Love Affair Might've Buried Covid's Origins

Ahead of the doctor's public testimony, making sense of what the dominant press helped to keep buried.

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America Can't Recover Until Fauci Is Held Accountable

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America Can't Recover Until Fauci Is Held Accountable

Because of Fauci, the U.S. government's disastrous pandemic response was based on a tangled web of lies and subterfuge.

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Trump crippled GOP's Fauci hearing with 'baseless' voiding of Biden pardons: lawyer

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Trump crippled GOP's Fauci hearing with 'baseless' voiding of Biden pardons: lawyer

President Donald Trump's campaign to invalidate former President Joe Biden's pardons gave Anthony Fauci the ammunition to stonewall Senate Republicans at a Wednesday hearing, according to a pro-Trump former prosecutor.Bill Shipley, who represented dozens of Jan. 6 defendants, made the case on X.Fauci, 85, the former top government health official, had been forced by Republicans to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which subpoenaed him over the pandemic response and COVID-19's origins, Politico reported.He repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment right and did not answer a single question.As the hearing continued, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the committee chairman, made his frustration clear."It's against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress," Paul warned Fauci. "There will be repercussions for your refusal to testify."After Paul's threat, Fauci's attorney David Schertler tried to interject. But Paul had Capitol Police remove him from the hearing room, Politico noted.Schertler released a statement shortly after his removal."It was outrageous for Sen. Paul to exclude his counsel for counsel making a legitimate legal point," Schertler said. "It proves the baseless and vindictive nature of this proceeding and Rand Paul's personal vendetta against Dr. Fauci."Shipley argued that Trump's quest to void Biden's pardons had undermined the efforts of Senate Republicans."The threats to challenge his pardon — legally baseless IMO — give him cover to assert the Fifth since he can claim there is a potential that he might lose the benefit of the pardon and his testimony might then incriminate him," Shipley wrote on X.In December 2025, President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that all documents signed by Biden's autopen — a machine that replicates a signature — were "null, void, and of no further force or effect," explicitly including pardons.In March 2025, Trump had already targeted pardon recipients directly. "Anyone receiving 'Pardons,' 'Commutations,' or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect," Trump wrote.Republicans have argued that the Biden pardon actually stripped Fauci of the right to remain silent — because a pardon eliminates the threat of prosecution that the Fifth Amendment is designed to guard against, Politico reported. Fauci could, however, be prosecuted for any crimes he was accused of after the pardon was issued.Shipley argued Congress could fix the problem by writing Fauci a formal grant of immunity — a legal guarantee that his testimony cannot be used against him — using the exact language of Biden's pardon. If Fauci then refused to testify, he would face contempt charges, Shipley said.Fauci said in his opening statement he was convinced that Paul's goal was to entrap him, citing Paul's "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution," Politico reported.

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Todd Blanche 'in trouble' as GOP confirmation linchpin suddenly scraps meeting: reports

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Todd Blanche 'in trouble' as GOP confirmation linchpin suddenly scraps meeting: reports

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ran into "trouble" Wednesday when a Republican senator, key to his confirmation, suddenly scrapped a meeting just before a federal judge's deadline for unredacted Epstein files, according to new reports.Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee hold only an 11-to-10 majority, a margin thinned by the death of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — holdouts are Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who just abruptly canceled the meeting. "Blanche nomination in trouble with committee vote slated for tomorrow," Politico's Sarah Ferris reported.The confirmation crisis lands one day before Blanche has been ordered to turn over unredacted Epstein files to a federal judge.Reporter Jim Acosta tied Cornyn's cancellation directly to efforts from Epstein survivors to prevent Blanche's confirmation."After a disastrous confirmation hearing, Blanche met with Epstein survivors at the behest of Cornyn and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), hoping to secure their votes, "wrote Acosta. "That meeting was also a disaster, and the survivors began lobbying even harder against Blanche’s confirmation."According to survivor Dani Bensky, at one point Blanche snapped, "Get to the point!"Now Blanche faces mounting pressure on the matter as a deadline looms. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has ordered Blanche to hand the files — documents the Justice Department redacted and claimed covered victims' names and the names of law enforcement personnel — by 3 p.m. Thursday, the same day Republicans want to hold the confirmation vote, according to a court order."The judge isn't accepting what the government has represented to it as truthful, and is requiring documentation to support its claims," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote.On Wednesday, Cornyn explained why he was threatening to hold up the vote."They know what they need to do, but they simply refuse to do it," Cornyn said, as Punchbowl News' Laura Weiss reported.Both Cornyn and Tillis want confirmation that the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund — created as part of Trump's settlement with the IRS — is permanently dead, and that the Trump family's immunity from future tax audits is narrowly limited. New York Times correspondent Glenn Thrush reported that the DOJ refused to provide a written declaration confirming that Trump's tax-immunity deal was dead, prompting Cornyn to cancel his morning meeting with Blanche. Tillis had previously made Blanche's meeting with Epstein survivors a condition of his support.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Cornyn he needs an answer by 4 p.m. Wednesday on whether the vote can proceed, Weiss reported."I'm not prepared to vote yes," CNN's Manu Raju reported Cornyn saying.Tillis is firmly in Cornyn's corner. There is "no daylight" between them, he said."I just want the agreement so we don't have to [delay the vote]," Politico's Burgess Everett reported Tillis saying.Grassley pointed to the two Republican holdouts when he was asked Wednesday whether he would need to reschedule the hearing. "You'll have to ask Tillis and Cornyn about that," Grassley said, Ferris reported.A delay could push Blanche's confirmation past the August recess and into the fall, Raju reported.

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Laura Ingraham sat in on the Fauci hearing — her reaction says it all

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Laura Ingraham sat in on the Fauci hearing — her reaction says it all

Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham sat through hours of testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday about his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her facial expressions captured the frustration felt by many critics of the former health official. Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle, sat a few rows behind Fauci, and can be seen […]

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Fauci’s cowardly Fifth Amendment evasion

Washington Examiner

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Fauci’s cowardly Fifth Amendment evasion

There’s nothing inherently wrong with invoking the Fifth Amendment. The perception that anyone who pleads the Fifth to protect themselves from self-incrimination is only hiding guilt is wrong. Innocent people are often intimidated or tricked by those in power into implicating themselves. Others might get nervous under oath and worry about misspeaking under pressure. Former […]

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