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opinion
Why Didn’t Fauci Want Young Men and Pregnant Women to Know the Risks?
On Nov. 15, 2021, Anthony Fauci wrote a decision about COVID-19 booster shots in his private diary. Push the booster on every adult in America. Do it, he wrote, “no matter what the ACIP says”—that is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the independent panel of outside experts that votes on who should get which… -
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Fauci’s Bird Flu Dress Rehearsal for COVID-19
“As usual, I must publicly defend the President’s position, but I work behind the scenes.” That is what Anthony Fauci wrote in his private diary in July 2002. The president he was quietly working around was George W. Bush. Eighteen years later, America would watch Fauci stand at a podium beside President Donald Trump and… -
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The Masks Were Never About Science
On March 8, 2020, Anthony Fauci told “60 Minutes” that a healthy person had “no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Within a year, he was applauding the idea of wearing two. The official explanation is that the science changed—that we learned about presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread. Fauci’s own diary destroys that explanation… -
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Dems Obstruct Rand Paul’s Plea Deal Offer to Fauci’s Assistant
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., blocked a plea deal offer from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s assistant for her testimony about destroying records at her boss’s request in exchange for immunity from possible criminal charges from the Department of Justice. Before the vote, Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., told the Daily… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Psychodrama Cycle Designed to Win It Elections
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: The Anthropic CEO came out, Dario Amodei, and said that there was going to be an AI apocalypse by… -
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The Fauci Revelations Prove That Congress Must Take Back Its Power
For too long, Congress has allowed unelected bureaucrats to wield far too much power over the lives and liberties of the American people. It is time for Congress to take that power back. The COVID-19 pandemic showed us the consequences of failing to do so. “Two weeks to slow the spread” became years of sweeping… -
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Virginia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Folly
Newly released texts show that Dr. Anthony Fauci privately told colleagues that a reaction some people had after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Days later, he told the public that 10,000 pregnant women had received COVID-19 vaccines without any concerning safety signals being detected. “No red… -
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COVID-19: America Needs Closure, but Fauci Says No
Victor Davis Hanson nailed it: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dramatic fall from grace—rooted in his own flaws—is a modern play in the style of an ancient Greek tragedy. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and top adviser to Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, pleaded his Fifth Amendment… -
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Fauci Privately Warned COVID-19 Shot Could ‘Theoretically’ Trigger Miscarriage Risk, Newly Released Texts Show
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in private text messages with other federal health officials that the COVID-19 vaccine could “theoretically” pose a risk of miscarriage for pregnant women after the second dose. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases noted that because “many people have a cytokine storm and fever after… -
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Anthony Fauci Held in Contempt of Senate Committee: Now What?
Now that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has voted along party lines to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, the inevitable question is: What happens next? The answer is both straightforward and complicated. The statute is clear; the politics are not. And the history of contempt referrals teaches a familiar Washington… -
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‘All He Had to Do Was Tell the Truth’: Senate Committee Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress
The Senate committee investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci voted Thursday morning to advance a contempt of Congress citation against him. Last week, Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee regarding questions about the government’s response… -
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Fauci’s Lawyer Fires Back at Aaron Rodgers
A week ago, attorney David Schertler found himself being escorted out of a Senate hearing after disrupting proceedings in defense of his client, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Now, Fauci’s attorney is once again speaking out in defense of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—this time in response to criticism from… -
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Louisiana AG Says State Could Pursue Fauci Over Deposition Statements and Diary Revelations
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the state is exploring a criminal or civil case against Dr. Anthony Fauci stemming from his 2022 deposition. During the deposition in a civil suit brought by Louisiana and Missouri against the Biden administration, Fauci said 174 times that he didn’t recall or didn’t remember certain information. However, new… -
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‘Absolute Criminal’: Aaron Rodgers Unloads on Fauci After Senate Hearing
Aaron Rodgers, NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, sat in a comfy, rotating chair next to Pat McAfee, head down as he listened to McAfee’s next question on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”: “Can you tell us about the mindset of coming into your last season? How do you view this year versus maybe the… -
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Aaron Rodgers Says What Millions of Americans Think About Fauci
LATROBE, Pa.—I was standing a few feet behind Pat McAfee’s stage at Saint Vincent College on Monday afternoon when Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers delivered one of the most candid and authentic interviews you’ll ever watch. The Steelers had just finished their first padded practice of training camp, and McAfee was welcoming coaches and players… -
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Don’t Forget How Florida Defeated Faucism and Vindicated Federalism
Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America’s botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn’t testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-19-era “Faucism,” the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times…. -
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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… -
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SCOOP: The New Ban Hawley Wants After Fauci’s Senate Appearance
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is set to announce legislation to bar all federal employees from soliciting cash prizes while they are in office. The announcement follows the senator grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the millions of dollars he pocketed while allegedly contributing to the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. “No federal bureaucrat should… -
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Fauci May Have Pleaded the 5th, but the GOP Won’t Stop Until It Has the Truth on COVID-19
Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., and the Senate Homeland Security Committee put Dr. Anthony Fauci on center stage Wednesday morning. Republican senators hit him with three hours of questioning about his alleged part in the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 virus. Over 100 times, Fauci stayed silent, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republican committee members claimed… -
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Republicans Hammer Amy Acton’s Role During Pandemic, Associate Her With Fauci
As Election Day approaches, Republicans have been going after Dr. Amy Acton for the role she played in lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video clip posted to X by her challengers in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, Acton states she “had this feeling in my gut of holding Ohio in my arms.” She then gestures…