All posts tagged "Anthony Fauci"

Republican efforts to hit Anthony Fauci with contempt of Congress charges have stalled because of skeptical Trump officials, per The Wall Street Journal.

According to a Thursday report, Trump administration officials are holding up the GOP's threat to prosecute Fauci because of doubts about whether the legal approach supports an indictment by the Justice Department.

A GOP-led Senate committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress three weeks ago. The August 6 contempt vote was brought by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who brought Fauci into a hearing to face questions about his leadership of the country's COVID pandemic response. Fauci responded by pleading the Fifth more than 100 times....

MAGA's pandemic obsession with harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed its dark core, an analyst argued on Monday.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte discussed how, as MAGA fractures, Republicans have been looking for a scapegoat. Trump's approval rating is sinking as the economy and the Iran war fuel frustration among the coalition's loyal followers.

"For normal people, yearning for a time when we were socially isolated and afraid of dying from a highly contagious virus is downright bizarre," Marcotte wrote. "MAGA, though, has a reason to feel nostalgia for a pandemic that killed millions. It was an era when the GOP got to do what they love more than anything: play the victim as loudly as possible before huge audiences that were especially vulnerable to disinformation."...

A MAGA pundit baffled the rest of her CNN panel by suggesting that a Trump foe "should be in a mental institution."

During an appearance on a CNN roundtable, former Trump White House press staffer Caroline Sunshine went after Anthony Fauci, who has been the target of GOP ire after the party hauled him into a hearing and reportedly contemplated pursuing contempt of Congress charges.

Fauci's diary from when he was the country's top health advisor amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been made public, and Sunshine said on Thursday night that the diary entries prove that he has mental disorders, a statement that shocked the rest of the panel....

A GOP senator accidentally called President Donald Trump's biggest success the "scandal of my lifetime" with his comments on Fox News.

Sen. Ron Johnson spoke with Fox News on Wednesday about COVID vaccinations in light of the recent testimony by Anthony Fauci. He told anchor Laura Ingraham that "these injections cause death" and that the COVID vaccine is the "great government scandal of my lifetime."

However, online critics noted that Trump boasted in the past that his first administration rolled out the COVID vaccines and that Johnson's comments amounted to calling Trump's success a scandal....

"The Daily Show" delivered a hysterical response to Fox News host Laura Ingraham's expressions during the Senate hearing for Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday.

Ingraham was sitting behind Fauci as Republicans unleashed attacks on the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing.

"The Daily Show" zoomed in on Ingraham, pairing her reactions with a montage of her own words....

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, is launching an investigation into former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

According to Politico, Uthmeier's boss, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has concocted a bizarre legal theory for why Fauci, who testified before a hostile GOP-dominated Senate committee on Wednesday, was not allowed to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights under questioning from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

"Uthmeier has launched several investigations since he was appointed by DeSantis in February 2025, from suing health organizations over the state’s ban on transgender treatments for children to recruiting rules used by the NFL," noted the report. This follows DeSantis writing "in a Wednesday X post the former White House adviser cannot claim the Fifth Amendment since he received a preemptive pardon by Biden, and he should be held in contempt for not answering Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s questions about U.S. funding going to a lab in a region of China where the first Covid cases were reported."...