Republicans are down so unhealthy proper now that they’re revisiting the COVID-19 pandemic and try guilty Dr. Anthony Fauci for the way it was dealt with.
Dr. Fauci ought to be having fun with retirement and the summer time along 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 rapidly turned contentious when Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Modification greater than 100 occasions to keep away from the potential of giving Republicans ammo they may use to prosecute him for perjury probably.
Fauci, the previous head of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, instantly had Republicans on the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee of their emotions, particularly Rand Paul, whom Fauci straight referred to 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., stated he would name for a vote to carry Fauci in contempt of Congress. After the listening to, Rand stated the committee would vote on the problem subsequent week.
Social Media Got here To The Protection of Dr. Fauci
The whole waste of taxpayers’ cash was not a success with social media, with many calling out Republicans for making an attempt 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’ based on 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 person wrote on X, previously Twitter.
David Axelrod stated on X, “There was lots senators might have requested Dr. Fauci about what classes he realized, 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 acquired the Medal of Freedom from a Republican POTUS for the work he did to save lots of hundreds of thousands 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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