Josh Hawley just put Fauci on notice. At today’s Senate hearing, Fauci sat there and started pleading the Fifth on everything. Hawley cut straight through it: “Let’s just get one thing straight. You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned.”
Biden handed Fauci a preemptive, full pardon covering potential federal offenses from 2014 through January 2025. Once you accept a presidential pardon, the legal jeopardy for those federal crimes is gone. Supreme Court precedent (going back to Brown v. Walker) is clear: if there’s no realistic risk of prosecution for the covered offenses, the privilege against self-incrimination doesn’t apply to them.
So Fauci’s lawyers are shifting, stalling, and having him take the Fifth anyway. They know the ground under that privilege is shaky now. You don’t hide behind the Fifth when the pardon already wiped the federal slate clean for the relevant period. Hawley called it out in real time. Fauci and his team can keep repeating the magic words, but the pardon they accepted changed the rules.
Senator Hawley let loose.
“You've done more to harm science than anybody in my lifetime. And I hope you'll go home and write that in your diary.”
Sen. Josh Hawley unleashes a scathing attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci during his Senate hearing, accusing the former top public health official of putting personal… pic.twitter.com/m4BnQpd1H2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 29, 2026
Democrats are reading poetry to Fauci. It’s not Dante’s Inferno, but it should be.
Democrats are currently reading poetry to Fauci in the Senate OVERSIGHT Hearing.
No, I’m not joking. pic.twitter.com/EYzlP0NWx4
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 29, 2026
Dr. Fauci’s lawyer wouldn’t stop screaming so he was ejected. It figures Tony would have a crazy lawyer.
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul just had Capitol Police EJECT Anthony Fauci’s attorney from the building after he REFUSED to stop screaming during the hearing
Lock this guy up too.
This is one big Fauci crime syndicate. pic.twitter.com/D8ibme62bB
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 29, 2026
This Is Why the Lawyer Went Bonkers
Sen. Paul informs Anthony Fauci that he’s BREAKING THE LAW for by REFUSING to answer questions in this hearing.
PAUL: “In the red folder on your table is a copy of Section 192 of Title II of the US Code… That section makes it a CRIME for a witness appearing under subpoena to refuse to answer any questions pertinent to the question under inquiry. Do you have that in front of you?”
FAUCI: “pleads the fifth”
PAUL: “Let the record show that the witness has refused to answer whether there’s a folder in front of him based on his Fifth Amendment right”
That is when Fauci threw his lawyer at him.
Lawyers who challenged the insanity of COVID restrictions across America are being vindicated today watching Fauci’s hearing. We were ALL right- ALL ALONG. Shame on every judge in this nation who lacked the fortitude OR intellect to independently stand, investigate and accept… https://t.co/hW1P2Cha7E
— Sigal Chattah (@Chattah4Nevada) July 29, 2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci will not answer any questions at today’s hearing. They really need to break that pardon.
He was shaking as he made his statement.
🚨 BREAKING: Dr. Fauci has just OPENLY REFUSED to answer ALL SENATORS’ QUESTIONS under the 5th Amendment
What a PATHETIC little elf, always escaping accountability
“I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.” pic.twitter.com/Oe8SSkXkWf
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 29, 2026
