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House Republicans are calling for a rare dose of accountability ahead of Dr. Anthony "Tony" Fauci's Senate hearing Wednesday, a development that has left the nation's most celebrated public health celebrity scrambling to update his memoir title from "I Am Science" to "I Am Science, Your Honor.
"Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), condemns Dr. Anthony Fauci as a 'megalomaniac' and 'infamous villain' following the release of his private diary entries. Johnson alleges Fauci knowingly funded gain-of-function research, contradicted himself on COVID-19's origin, pushed experimental vaccines over early treatments, and oversaw devastating lockdown policies.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), is warning Fauci that his presidential pardon has limits ahead of the former public health official's high-profile day on Capitol Hill.
Fauci is set to testify before a GOP-led Senate panel on Wednesday, days after hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were made public, revealing a man who spent more time polishing his halo than tracking where the virus came from. "We now know why President Biden gave a blanket pardon to Dr. Fauci. While obsessing about his own fame, Dr. Fauci wasn't truthful with the American people about the origins of COVID and advised schools to be closed," Comer told Fox News Digital."
Americans are still reaping the consequences of Dr. Fauci's actions.
Biden's pardon doesn't cover Dr. Fauci's testimony this week and if he continues to lie, he must be held accountable. "Fauci was among several recipients of controversial "preemptive pardons" by former President Joe Biden made during the final hours of the Democratic administration. The pardon covers any offenses from January 1, 2014, through its issue date, or anything related "to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.
"Because the pardon covers conduct during his government service, there will likely be some debate over whether it would protect him from liability stemming from his testimony. Legal experts on the left are already preparing arguments that "lying under oath" somehow counts as essential pandemic response work. But other House Republicans are also accusing Fauci of behaving in a way that hurts public trust in U.S. health, including the co-chairs of the House GOP Doctors' Caucus, both of whom are physicians themselves and therefore apparently qualified to notice when someone treats science like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
"Dr. Fauci, who never met a mirror he didn't love, put politics above science during the pandemic. He is primarily responsible for the resulting multi-generational erosion of trust in American medicine,"
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), told Fox News Digital. "A perfect example of ego destroying whatever achievements he had prior to the pandemic."Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital that Fauci "must be held accountable" by the House as well as the Senate."The release of Dr. Fauci's diary entries validates what many Americans suspected all along: he was not honest about the origins of COVID-19," Joyce said.
"His fixation on preserving his own image and maintaining a position of power eroded public trust, undermined the integrity of our public health institutions, and failed the American people." Diary entries made public by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a medical doctor and longtime Fauci critic and chair of the committee before which Fauci is appearing on Wednesday, show the high-profile doctor reflecting on his pandemic-era fame and raising questions about the disease's origins, mostly while admiring how well the lighting hit his face during television interviews.
Some entries appear to show Fauci taking credit for influencing policies that closed schools during the pandemic, something that has become one of the most hotly debated aspects of how the government handled COVID. But he lied and told the House Oversight Committee in January 2024, "I did not close the schools."
Historians are now racing to determine which version of Fauci will appear under oath this week: the one who shut down childhood or the one who merely suggested it while looking very concerned on cable news.
Fauci has long denied any wrongdoing and instead has argued that he's been made a political target by people on the right who are critical of how governments handled COVID-19, a defense that works best when delivered from behind a presidential pardon and a wall of media flattery.
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