Fauci pleads the Fifth: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment 111 instances at a listening to on COVID.
The smug Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights a stunning 111 instances when known as to testify earlier than Congress about COVID, even along with his laughable pardon in impact (“Dr. Fauci’s silent treatment,” July 30).
It is clear that he’s more involved along with his fame than the fact. Sen. Rand Paul is correct: He belongs behind bars.
Bo Madden
Jupiter, Fla.
Who will get a pardon backdated for 12 years and isn’t fearful about public outrage? I assume Democrats thought they might be in the White House ceaselessly. It appears they ignore the worth of public trust.
I perceive how embarrassing that is for Fauci, however why write your personal feedback on a authorities server and never assume it could ever be launched? I hope they do proceed with contempt costs.
Greg Raleigh
Washington, DC
This listening to, reminiscent of the McCarthy period, was no more than a continuation of Sen. Rand Paul’s marketing campaign in opposition to Fauci. Taking the Fifth was the sensible factor to do as a result of a method or one other, Paul goes to proceed his vendetta.
Lou Maione
Manhattan
Fauci’s option to plead the Fifth 111 instances was reprehensible however predictable. His silence gave credence to the general fraudulent and devious techniques he imposed on the American people during the pandemic.
Children being disadvantaged of an instructional setting made worse by necessary mask-wearing and people being fired for noncompliance with the vaccine mandate are just a few of the harms inflicted upon Americans.
Fauci’s legacy can be of a vile mad scientist who was consumed with self-adulation and profited off of to the detriment of thousands and thousands.
Denis David
East Rockaway
Republicans and right-wing media retailers are denouncing Fauci for taking the Fifth over 100 instances earlier than a Senate investigative panel.
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Yet these similar people have been silent when President Trump took the Fifth Amendment more than 440 instances in 2022 during the New York legal professional basic’s investigation into his business practices.
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
If you seemed up the phrases “arrogant” or “egotistic,” you’ll see a image of Anthony Fauci.
There is a place in hell for a man who triggered a lot injury and ache and — when requested to apologize and take duty for his actions — cowardly hides behind the Fifth Amendment. Just watching him smugly sit in entrance of Congress made me bodily sick.
Jean Cole
Juno Beach, Fla.
The sheer conceitedness of Fauci at the Senate listening to could be enough to make you despise him. But these clean, lifeless eyes added to his zombie-like demeanor. Over a million Americans died from COVID on his watch, and he acts as in the event that they’re simply one other entry in his diary. May historical past document that this physician failed his oath to “do no harm.”
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
COVID was not created or first found in the United States, however many Americans succumbed to it. Fauci is to not blame for its national and worldwide results on our nation and the world.
Wayne Williams
Camden, NJ
So Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment over 100 instances during his Senate testimony.
He nonetheless comfortably collects his very massive federal pension whereas sitting on a pile of analysis funds that he gained by cozying up to Big Pharma during the pandemic.
Police officers and different civil servants lose their pensions for much much less extreme indiscretions.
Bill Riegel
Suffolk County
Anthony Fauci, the once-esteemed coronavirus czar, stoically invoked his Fifth Amendment rights a staggering 111 instances earlier than the Senate Homeland Security Committee investigating the infamous gain-of-function experiments which will have created the COVID virus.
Isn’t it about time this lauded and puffed up “Mr. Science” determine good points the well-deserved “Dr. Franken-Fauci” moniker?
James Hyland
Beechhurst
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