Victor Davis Hanson: Hearing Represented ‘Complete Career and Personal Destruction of Anthony Fauci’
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday was the perfect encapsulation of what Tony Kinnett referred to later that day on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” as the “complete chaos” of COVID-19 policies.
Victor Davis Hanson, senior contributor to the Daily Signal, joined Kinnett to share his own exclusive assessment of Fauci’s testimony. Or, more accurately, lack of it.
Fauci “did a funny thing” with his “statement blasting his critics and then he gave them no chance to reply,” Hanson said, noting how Fauci called out Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., for subpoenaing him before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases then pled the Fifth Amendment 111 times, creating something of “a one-way hearing.”
“Think of the precedent that that establishes. Congress wants to find out, wants to investigate, subpoena somebody. If you don’t go, you’re going to go to jail if you’re Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro,” Hanson said. “But if you’re Anthony Fauci, as in the case of left-wing Lois Lerner, you just blast everybody and then you shut up and hide behind the Fifth Amendment and make a mockery.”
There were “1,100 pages that in his arrogance, he kept a diary. And in the diary, he admitted to things or he confessed things that were absolutely contrary to his public policies and his positions on everything from masks to shutdowns to quarantines to vaccinations to the role of Scott Atlas in the White House to Donald Trump to the origins of the Wuhan virus itself,” Hanson continued.
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“So we don’t know who to believe. Do we believe when he was confiding to the diary or do we believe when he was talking to the public?”
Hanson then admitted part of him “felt sorry” for Fauci.
“Some of his years were not too bad, but the way that he was so arrogant and the lives that he affected and the people who lost businesses and the people who missed cancer screenings and … surgical procedures because of the nationwide lockdown and the destruction of the economy and the psychological damage that ensued, and people who trusted him when he said that this experimental vaccination was both safe and it would prevent infectiousness and being infected and all of that was untrue.”
“And so, here we see this poor old man was up there trying to plead the Fifth Amendment and he said basically, ‘I have nothing to apologize for. You, you, you are unfair and I resent this … and I’m done. I’m not going to answer one question. And you have no right to cross-examine me on anything in my diary, anything I’ve said.’”
“So, it was really the complete career and personal destruction of Anthony Fauci,” Hanson said.
Kinnett pondered the “downstream effects” of Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment, even with a pardon from then-outgoing President Joe Biden.
He noted it’s “chilling” and warned that if allowed to stand, “then congressional hearings don’t matter. You can just get up in front and plead the Fifth … and nothing ever happens,” Kinnett warned.
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