Of course the malignant little troll went that route. The coward just had to invoke the 5th. Fauci thinks he won by using this gambit during today’s hearing. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci accused Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., of carrying out a “slanderous” campaign against him, going on to invoke the Fifth Amendment during his opening statement at the Senate on Wednesday.

“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate [Paul’s] repeated, public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote ‘behind bars,’ unquote,” Fauci said.

“Therefore, although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long career in government, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you,” Fauci said.

“Slanderous?” Oh really now? We are now supposed to believe the diary entrees that Fauci wrote on government computers are what? Being taken out of context? Are being cherry-picked to make Fauci look bad? Are going to be used as a smear campaign against him? 

That’s what some liberals want you to believe. Behold Kerry Kennedy. 

Mum admired you, Dr. Fauci, and considered you a hero, as do I.

Excerpt from Dr. Fauci's diary: "I received a call from Ethel and Kerry Kennedy explicitly inviting (me) up to Hyannisport for 4th of July weekend. They were so nice over the phone. They said that they loved and… pic.twitter.com/18pOH8ccF0

— Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) July 28, 2026

I tell you, the willful blindness of many is still prevalent. 

The fact is, Fauci’s diaries clearly show a malignant narcissist obsessed with his own image and thoroughly enjoying the attention he’s getting throughout the Covid pandemic response. As it turns out, he’s been this way for decades. 

In baseball (and I presume other sports), there was a saying that you aren’t supposed to read your own press clippings.

This is because allowing the praise to get to your head ultimately is bad for future performance.

Fauci not only read his own press clippings, he lived for… https://t.co/X2G9InAC7X

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 28, 2026

But now that his diaries written on government devices have been made public, Fauci is exposed. As I noted here, Fauci not only KNEW from the outset that Covid wasn’t the danger that he was insisting it was during TV spots and the Covid press briefings, he unequivocally made clear that the virus came from a lab accident. 

The Washington Post and the New York Times aren’t telling anyone about that. Instead, they’ve been trying to paint even more lipstick on the pig. 

Perhaps surprisingly, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have now published articles on the Fauci diaries. Unsurprisingly, both are complete whitewashes. They sanitize his record and reduce the criticism to the suggestion that he may have been a little too narcissistic.

Neither outlet confronts the diaries’ central revelation, which is that Fauci repeatedly said one thing in private and another in public. That applies to the possibility of a laboratory origin, the supposed role of the Wuhan seafood market, the Wuhan lab’s extraordinarily dangerous gain-of-function research, the infection fatality rate, dissenting scientists such as Jay Bhattacharya, and much more.

This was their chance to admit that they were wrong to trust Fauci, that he was a charlatan, and that they had failed their readers by acting as establishment propaganda outlets rather than journalists. They could even have blamed Fauci and washed their own hands of the entire scandal.

But they cannot bring themselves to do even that.

Nope. Instead, the New York Times prints this garbage. 

More than 1,100 pages long and dating from 2019 to 2022, Dr. Fauci’s diary reads like a black comedy of manners in which a 79-year-old social-climbing scientist becomes the face of the government’s response to a pandemic and then the toast of the town — the toast of this town. As the death toll rises, so too does the doctor’s status and self-regard. He falls in with a fast crowd and becomes consumed by his own image.

It’s like Thackeray’s Vanity Fair crossed with The Plague by Camus.

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But there were other Americans who became disillusioned with Dr. Fauci, his methods, his advice and his media ubiquity. To anyone who blamed him for school closures, lockdowns, vaccine mandates they disagreed with and more, the diary entries have come as vindication of the suspicions they held about the character of this man they fault. He was having fun.

No you jackasses. It wasn’t about the fact that his diaries show he was thoroughly enjoying his celebrity status and having fun little dinner parties with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Recall where we were in 2020/2021: Graduations cancelled. Funerals capped at ten, then banned. A school year gone, then most of another. Weddings postponed twice & held in backyards. Parents who died alone because the guidance said no visitors to nursing homes. On & on & on it… pic.twitter.com/KXAJWhxKAT

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 29, 2026

It was about the fact that Fauci was the face of the lockdown protocols that resulted in:

Schools locked down for over a year

Band kids playing their instruments through masks 

People dying alone in hospitals or nursing homes 

Surfers being arrested for surfing… alone

Teachers doing lockdown dances to …keep the schools closed 

George Floyd riots and his multiple funerals were fine but attending the funeral of one’s father, mother, or grandparent was strictly verboten 

I stood outside and basically watched my grandmother die through a window. Yet I could waltz right in after she died to say goodbye. I’ll never forget what they did. I still have the note my kids made to put on the window. Fauci should be in prison for life at the very least. pic.twitter.com/K2VeKWuq9E

— Esk (@Esk_58) July 27, 2026

Yes, that. One thousand percent! The cruelty of the lockdowns led by and promoted by Anthony Fauci and others cannot be ignored, excused, or erased. In fact, even some on the left are now realizing the truth. 

Fauci KNOWS what he did was malicious and corrupt. He was enjoying his celebrity status and preening before the pandering media while privately detailing the fact that he knew this virus wasn’t as dangerous as it seems. 

And so, this morning, the cowardly little troll pleads the Fifth. 

SCOTUS Brown v. Walker (1896). It also does not allow 5th Amendment protection to continue. Plenty of precedent to jail Fauci until he provides truthful testimony. McDougal is a start.

— OGShweddyB (@SchweateB) July 29, 2026

Does Fauci pleading the Fifth over even a stupid folder open the door to dumping his pardon? It could be. We will have to see. 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click