The Senate Judiciary Committee has now voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt. Which is a very small start to what should be a plethora of consequences regarding what that little troll has inflicted upon so many Americans for decades.

A Senate committee voted on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for declining to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his past testimony to Congress regarding risky, US-funded “gain of function” research

The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 along party lines to refer the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for potential prosecution after he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times last week.

The contempt resolution authorizes Vice President JD Vance, the president of the Senate, to certify the Homeland Security panel’s report on Fauci to DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

He utilized the Fifth 111 times during that hearing. Now why would he do that given that Joe Biden gave him a blanket pardon covering the entirety of the Covid years? I mean seriously, he faces no governmental prosecution over anything he did during the Covid pandemic. But you know, invoking the 5th 111 times isn’t because of that. It’s because of consequences from the states and American citizens. 

Furthermore, no matter the pardon, Fauci can and IS being held in contempt for refusing to answer questions during the Senate committee hearing. The pardon isn’t a blanket pardon as much as Fauci would like it to be. 

State attorneys general also have a role, as they are free to file both criminal and civil charges against Fauci. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a state investigation into Fauci on Wednesday, saying that “It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.” This may include, in addition to perjury, investigating charges of “fraud, violations of public trust, [and] specific duties of care that medical officers may have,” according to the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro.

When you get past the “In FAUCI WE TRUST” rhetoric and the bobbleheads, action figures, and t-shirts emblazoned with Fauci’s face, you see a man who has consistently put protecting and burnishing his own reputation with the elite class above average Americans who were hit hard during the lockdowns. Businesses were destroyed, livelihoods were upended, and family members died alone. But Fauci got his applause, awards, and recognition.

The diary entries show a man of almost unfathomable arrogance who cared far more about the plaudits he received on an episode of Morning Joe than the aftermath of the havoc he wreaked on the country. Taken together, the diary shows a man so consumed by vanity, pride, and ego that he essentially became the figurehead of a new American religion, a Joseph Smith for the age of the wonky bureaucrat.

As Fauci said on MSNBC in an infamous 2021 statement, “A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.” Fauci, the high priest of COVIDism, presided over a dark time in American history, a cautionary tale that our country should never want to repeat.

While states like Florida are crafting their own cases against Fauci, which the pardon doesn’t cover, he has other problems brewing. It isn’t just his emails on government servers, now the Senate Judiciary has his government cell phone.

BREAKING: I have confirmed @SenRonJohnson subcommittee (the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations) has obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s iPhone that was used during his time at HHS.

The phone was provided by HHS and likely provides new insight, records into Fauci's conduct.… https://t.co/aEy8TSQPxD

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 5, 2026

Given how prolific he was in writing in his diary, all 1100+ pages worth, you can darned well bet there’s a LOT of information stashed on that iPhone! 

Fauci turned in his government phone when he retired, according to a person familiar with the matter. Federal employees typically return government-owned devices when ending their service.

Fauci used the phone during his time as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to a spokeswoman for Johnson, whose subcommittee obtained the phone records. Fauci played a central role during the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic in 2020, publicly contradicting President Trump at times and urging more public caution than some political figures, which made him an enemy of Trump loyalists.

Here’s something to consider. This was a government phone. Fauci wrote his diary on government laptops, and his diary shows that he requested that government emails be deleted after reading. Which is against federal law. Which leads to the next question. Is there anything on Fauci’s government iPhone that asks to hide or delete government information? Or will it show who he called and when, and how soon after did key stories appear in the media? 

Already well-established though that members of the scientific community felt the urgent need for burner phones given the implications of what they were dealing with.

And really, who among us, when working on the unquestionable Science, haven't required a burner phone? pic.twitter.com/KZhJ2lDhH6

— James Brown (@XiolaBlues) August 6, 2026

Anthony Fauci is a contemptible troll. His choices and promotion of pandemic policies have adversely affected millions. He can claim he bears no responsibility for the Covid response all he wants. We all know that’s a boat load of horseshit. Fauci deserves the contempt charges and should not have ever EVER been given a pardon. 

Feature Photo Credit: Dr. Anthony Fauci at a press briefing, March 31, 2020 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks, public domain)