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And you wrote, "Even if a pandemic should occur, the knowledge is worth the risks." Do you still stand by that?
>> I will invoke my right under the fifth amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.
You got rich while people were dying. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, over a million in the end, and you were getting rich. This is, I think, the real lesson of Anthony Fauci as a character, what he is, what he represents, that you can have credentialed experts in lab coats decide how the society should operate through enlightened administration. This is the ideology that co and Dr. Fauci as a character, as a person, as a man, once again, completely and fully invalidated.
Hey there, friends, fans, and foes of Dad Saves America. John Pola here, and well, I thought I would take this Friday to revisit one of my least favorite Italian Americans, Anthony Fauci.
>> New revelations this morning from Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal journal published by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has clashed with the former infectious disease expert for years.
>> If anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.
>> Most notably over whether COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China or came from a market in Wuhan featuring exotic animals.
>> We've put the evidence into the public sphere. So, I would just, just suggest that he tell the truth, and if he tells the truth, he has no liability.
In January of 2020, weeks before the world shut down, Fauci wrote, "Now we know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier." Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to human. Fauci, in the more than 1100 released pages, also reflecting on his newfound fame, including conversations with celebrities like Barbara Streisand, who asked about vaccines, and Julia Roberts, who called him her personal hero. Fauci writing, "It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable."
Throughout the entries, Fauci makes his feelings about President Trump known, calling him a true embarrassment and saying he was spewing nonsense in the weeks before the 2020 election. One of his last acts before leaving office, former President Biden issued Dr. Fauci a preemptive pardon in anticipation of future political targeting. But Republicans argue that wouldn't apply to new statements made today.
>> And of course, it's not clear that any pardon signed by someone who's demonstrably incapacitated and not actually signed by them at all, come on, man.
>> Uh, should be legally enforced in general, but we'll leave, we'll leave that high crime off to the side. This is, uh, this is the first page of Senator, Senator Paul's, uh, Tony's diary. And, you know, it is in the style of a teenage girlish. Uh, it is massive. It is a massive document. I did not read this massive document. I did, however, watch the massive testimony, uh, before the Senate.
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You know, one question is, um, you know, is this diary, which one might say is a kind of a journal of the plague year, if you will, is this diary of Anthony Fauci, sort of fair game? And, uh, former guest of the show, uh, friend, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, current director of the NIH, and I think probably several other agencies at the moment, was asked, is this okay? Is this inbound?
>> Should private notes be held differently than public statements? And would you want your diary put out there for the world to see?
>> This was a private diary that he kept on government servers.
>> Off to a bad start using the government servers. I guess that's better than Hillary, who did the State Department's work off the government servers. [snorts] They got to really figure out which times to use the government servers or not.
>> And they reflect somebody who had a tremendous impact on the lives of every single person in the country, and in fact, in the world.
>> Is there any evidence whatsoever that Dr. Fauci's research led in any way to the development of what became COVID-19? I think there's evidence that Tony Fauci authorized research that happened in the Wuhan lab with, with American taxpayer money, uh, despite the fact that there were other scientists who thought that this kind of research was too dangerous to do.
>> And this ends up being a centerpiece for Senator Paul, who has been going at this from the beginning. I think to some extent, there's not a lot of people left who haven't been convinced one way or the other on this. But it is worth revisiting this moment repeatedly, in part because of what it tells us about political philosophy and the battle for ideas going on right now in our country.
One thing that Tony Fauci used to be up for was the battle of ideas in the Congress. Well, if I become a punching bag, I'm a punching bag. But I, I am very happy to testify before any Congressional Oversight Committee. I have nothing to hide.
>> So that's 2022. His tune has changed a little bit, given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me. The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, "behind bars," unquote.
And you can see his hands shaking there quite a bit. Uh, he is getting old. How old is Anthony Fauci? Born in 1940, December. He is about to be, at the end of this year, 86. Why would you feel like you can't just be honest at 86 years old? Why? Why would you feel like, as you'll see, you just won't answer any of the questions? Well, it all gets laid out, once again, in this testimony, and it is worth revisiting some of the key moments of it, just in case, uh, you've missed some of these arguments, because it, it is, it is pretty outrageous stuff.
Starting with the question of what was Anthony Fauci's role in potentially creating the pandemic in the first place. You know, at the heart of so much of the issue here, and Anthony Fauci's history here, is important, is the question of doing, doing experiments to essentially create the kind of pandemics that you're claiming you're going to want to fight. This is the gain-of-function research problem. And, um, Senator Paul recounts the critical moment where Anthony Fauci funded something that, had it actually come out, would have been 100, maybe a thousand times worse than COVID-19. And this is important. It may be the most important question we get to here today. The avian flu has about 50% mortality for humans. The good news, though, about animal viruses is they don't infect humans very well. It will infect humans, but it doesn't go human-to-human very well. Ron Fouchier, with the money that you provided to him, uh, did an experiment where he caused purposeful mutations to create a new virus, an avian flu that, uh, didn't just infect birds well, but actually infected mammals well, went ferret-to-ferret in an aerosolized manner. People saw this and were aghast, you know, at the decision-making process that you decided to fund this. But this is when, you know, the, the debate came about, and you wrote in support of this in the Washington Post, and you said, "Even if a scientist is bitten, even if a pandemic should occur, the knowledge is worth the risks." Do you still stand by that? Would you like to qualify at all whether or not the knowledge of gain of function is worth the risks? Particularly in this case, since we now know 15 million people died worldwide. Many people believe this came from the lab. Do you think that the risks really are worth the benefits for gain of function research?
Get ready for a recurring theme.
>> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.
So what was this exactly? This was this early effort that back in 2012. Here is actually the paper by Anthony Fauci at the National Library of Medicine, in which he talks about this, about research on highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus, the way forward. And here's the section that Rand Paul is talking about. "Scientists working in this field might say, as indeed I have said, that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks." And I want to read this so you fully understand where he might be coming from. "It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky. However, we must respect that there are genuine and legitimate concerns about this type of research, both domestically and globally. We cannot expect those who have these concerns to simply take us, the scientific community, at our word that the benefits of this work outweigh the risks, nor can we ignore their calls for greater transparency." A theme that we will come back to. "Their concerns about conflicts of interest," keep that in mind as well, "and their efforts to engage in a dialogue about whether these experiments should have been performed in the first place. Those of us in the scientific community who believe in the merits of this work have the responsibility to address these concerns thoughtfully and respectfully."
Uh, you won't get much of that Anthony Fauci from 2012 in this testimony, as we haven't seen, really, since his name rocketed in the spotlight and became somebody that, uh, well, celebrities had on speed dial. But the, the gain-of-function story is important because it, it, the, the timing of some of this cuts to the heart of the timing in Biden's robo-pen pardon.
One of the things you find throughout the testimony is that transparency was not part of Tony Fauci's mode of operation. And while he did keep his diary on government servers, he was pretty quick to find alternative routes to talk to all of his gain-of-function research buddies, like the folks at EcoHealth Alliance, who may have been the money transfer scheme to put the funds into the Wuhan lab. If Morance tells Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, and you've got this in front of you, it's exhibit one. It's in, it's already in the record as part of this. It says, quote, "PS, I forgot to say that there is no worry about Fauci. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail or hand it to him at work or at home. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble."
So, Anthony was too smart to let all his machinations with EcoHealth Alliance, uh, you know, always be on official channels. There were other ways they could do it. That relationship turned out to be kind of important for the Biden pardon. It perhaps defined the odd and seemingly random duration of the pardon, somewhat similar to the duration of the Hunter Biden pardon, which also went back to all of his Ukraine nonsense, uh, in a similar timeframe as well. This is the pardon you have heard so much about. And Dr. Fauci, the only other person that got a pardon like this, I believe, had a last name of Biden.
>> Yeah.
>> This pardon goes back to, and if you'll see, January the 1st of 2014. I'm just very interested why it was this date. Did it have anything to do with the fact that 2014 was also the year that the NIDA or NIH began funding EcoHealth Alliance's "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence" grant?
>> You know, when I think about 2014, it is this strange window because in so many ways, the birth of the catastrophes of the 2020s, we're in that time period. So on one hand, you've got Anthony Fauci trying to make the case for gain-of-function research, and the Obama administration actually saying, "No, we don't want you to do that," spinning up side projects to just do it in China. You've also got Joe Biden and Barack Obama engaged in essentially the early stages of what will ultimately become the great Russia collusion hoax. And so all the seeds planted in that timeframe end up blooming in the catastrophe that is 2020 through 2024. That 2014 area that I'm talking about, of course, is the, the crazy interventions going on by the Obama administration in Ukraine and its conflicts with Russia, then that really started the ball rolling into the new adversarial relationship we have with Russia long before they invaded Ukraine. In fact, it's not clear they would have done that had the mucking around in that timeframe hadn't happened at all.
In January the 26th of 2020, this is before we had even our first tragic death, uh, of coronavirus in the United States. You wrote, "It now appears, using EPA data, that the genomic data, the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market," which was the big rumor that was out there, this wet market in China. "We know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier." On January the 31st, you wrote about a phone call. You wrote, "The people on the phone, uh, on the phone felt the mutations around the furin cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally, since it would require an evolutionary jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the possibility this could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab. The former being the most likely."
So, as many of us know, and at least half the country pretends didn't happen, right from the start, Anthony Fauci was saying one thing in private and to his teammates and colleagues and co-conspirators, and another thing to the public. And that other thing was this: "All must have come from a wet market," and "You're a racist if you call it the China virus or the Wuhan virus," which we used to do. We've actually always called viruses by their city or, or state origin. In fact, in the middle of Woodstock, there was actually a Hong Kong flu going on, a pandemic. But I digress. Not transparency. Uh, actual just lying to the public. We all, again, half of us know this. Revisiting it is worthwhile. And I'm going to come back to the bigger picture at the end here of why this is important beyond COVID.
In fact, Senator Paul plays a video recapping how much Tony Fauci was out there in the world saying this came from a wet market with extreme degrees of confidence, and again, with levels of coordination. Major scientific publications called the lab leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory. So all garbage, all the total destruction of anything like public trust in any of this, and, and, and frankly, for good, because trusting in these people has always been a mistake.
What's his response? You know his response. "Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the fifth amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you."
>> This is how this one goes, folks. I, I played the fifth. [laughter]
>> I hope that you don't find that annoying. There's more where that's coming from. Some of this was genuinely new, at least to me. And Joni Ernst revealed something that, well, just listen to this.
>> Dr. Fauci, we have learned that US coronavirus researchers at UNC shipped quote, "humanized" or transgenic mice to China by around 2017 for use in their dangerous coronavirus work. Under your NIH, coronavirus researchers also used aborted baby body parts in mice research, and taxpayers paid for them to do that. There's only one answer for who does that.
>> Utterly diabolical. Completely just pure eugenics. That's what that is. That's eugenics, folks. That's Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson eugenics.
>> NIH-funded coronavirus researcher Dr. Ralph Baric and his colleagues at UNC put parts of livers, thymuses, and chunks of human fetal lung that they got from aborted almost five-month-old human babies. They put those parts in their research mice. They disgustingly named them BLT mice and wrote they had created a quote, "sandwich of aborted body parts in the mice." Get it, folks? BLT.
>> To which, of course, Fauci's only response could be:
>> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.
>> I hate to make light of this one, but...
>> I, yeah. What are we doing? The most heinous, Dr. Mengele Nazi stuff on taxpayer expense. I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth to Nazi experiments.
Of course, there were experiments going on that also were being suppressed. The good kind, the trying to help people kind. Uh, an employee at NIH, Dr. Nair, led a team of researchers who were diagnosing and treating individuals who'd never had COVID or were severely injured by the genetic therapy injections.
>> And by that, he means the mRNA shots, which, uh, Senator Johnson and others, including friend of the show Brett Weinstein, consider a genetic therapy more than an actual vaccine. In part because the mRNA that got injected causes mutations and causes the spike proteins to come about. It's not really the same thing as saying taking a live virus and injecting a small dose of it and letting your immune system develop the, the response to it. So that, that's the argument, roughly loosely, to the extent I understand it. That's why the, the mRNA shots might be better understood as a gene therapy than as a vaccine. But let's keep going.
>> There was a concerted effort, and I'll enter this into the record. It appears in Inside NIH to quash Dr. Nair's publishing, publishing of that study. And...
>> So why might he want to quash the vaccine side effects? Well, of course, the argument, which was also the argument for basically all of the censorship that took place during the 2020 through 2024 period with regard to COVID, was that any knowledge that there's problems will promote vaccine hesitancy. And maybe among that knowledge was the fact that perhaps Dr. Fauci himself was subject to some adverse side effects. One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine. So he took the, the Moderna vaccine on national TV, telling in a very, very highly publicized press conference, their show people that it was safe. Then he got one of the primary, most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction. He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of his diary.
>> To which, of course, you know the response. You know it's coming.
>> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment and the Constitution.
He would go on to basically say this and only this over a hundred times throughout this three-hour hearing.
>> Well, the secret document that I think you need to say...
>> He pleads the fifth. That's the last of that gag, I promise. Um, now the question is, can he plead the fifth? Well, Senator Holly thinks not so much. You don't have any rights under the fifth amendment because you've been pardoned. As you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more. Brown versus Walker, 1896. When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege. You know that. Your lawyer sitting behind you now, shifting nervously in their chairs. They know it. This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't about the law. This is about contempt. Contempt for this body and contempt for the American people.
So let's just go back for a minute to that 2012 article. So, and just look at what he was saying is important, given he wants to adventure into gain-of-function land. Well, what, what are some, what, what were the bars he was setting for his future self to be judged by? "Nor can we ignore calls for greater transparency." Well, failed that one miserably. "For concerns about conflicts of interest." And of course, efforts to engage in dialogue, he's already shut down. But let's, conflicts of interest here, uh, are pretty astounding. It, it is actually, this is the first time I've heard this, and maybe it's the first time you've heard it. So, if nothing else, this, uh, stroll down the 2020s memory lane revealed just how downright literally corrupt Anthony Fauci turned out to be at the height of the COVID pandemic that he perhaps caused or contributed to causing.
You got rich while people were dying. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, over a million in the end, and you were getting rich. And not only were you doing that, you were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally. Cash prizes totaling over a million. You did all of that during the pandemic, didn't you?
>> You know, you know what he's the answer he's going to give, but over a million dollars in prizes. Let's keep going. It gets so much worse. And what were these individuals doing in the depth of the pandemic in November of 2020, when millions of Americans were suffering from COVID? What were they doing? I tell you what they're doing. Fulkers was on your behalf soliciting and gathering information for a cash award. Let's look at it. We've got his email right here, right over my shoulder. Fulkers says, "I'm working on this nomination for the Dan David Award for Fauci. We need to beef up the COVID part. Do you have language in the can that you could share that delineates how we responded in new ways to COVID?" He sends this to multiple federal employees. What was the Dan David Award? Do you remember, Doc?
>> I plead the fifth.
>> It was a $900,000 cash award. $900,000 cash award. And he got it.
>> 900 grand. Let's keep going. It didn't stop there. You applied for and received at least eight other federal cash prizes on federal time, using federal employees and federal resources. Here they are over my shoulder. Besides the Dan David Award, you've got the Partnership for Public Service. You've got the Add Prize. You've got the Smithsonian Award. You've got the National Academy of Medicine's Award. You got the CDC Foundation. In fact, you turned your staff into a full-time application machine. You actually wrote to people and said, "Do you think maybe I'd qualify?" And you got cash for all of this. And it wasn't just one or two employees, was it? In fact, you used eight separate federal employees on federal time, using federal resources, to solicit cash awards. Isn't that true?
>> Now, keep in mind that Anthony Fauci was already the highest-paid member of our government. Fauci's salary exceeded that of the President of the United States. And I, I would actually make the case that so long as we have a government, we might want to pay these people enough to get some decent, competent people who would otherwise start or stay in the businesses they would start or currently run. I, I, I think there's a case to be made for that, that we actually don't, as hard as this is to say, that maybe we don't pay these people enough. I know that sounds crazy, but in this particular case, he was getting paid plenty, especially in retirement.
The, the one thing that is amazing about this sequence from Senator Holly is, I mean, he's bringing the receipts. Uh, Fauci and his team sort of knew that he shouldn't be doing this and had to basically strong-arm the, the ethics people. I know there are, there are allegedly ethics entities inside the government. I don't know what they do. No one does. They don't appear to do anything that involves maintaining ethics. But listen to this. And the most hilarious part is that you weren't content to even drag them into applying for all of these cash awards. You then had them go out to the ethics agencies and ethics watchdogs and demand that you be able to get the money. That's right. We've got it in your emails. Your staff and employees on federal time, using federal resources, being paid with federal dollars, are soliciting cash for you.
>> Listen to this. Listen to this email. "Tony's assistant routinely tells the sponsors as soon as NIAID is notified that Tony is an award recipient that the cash prizes need heightened review, and we don't just want to say no, we want to try to get to yes. Yes takes time." Why would they be expecting a no? Might be because it's all illegal. Federal law, as you very well know, prohibits the solicitation of cash awards or other personal benefits for federal employees. And it certainly prohibits using your own employees to do this. 5 CFR section 2635.205B. I, that is a statute, I guess. Okay.
So, let's see. Not transparent, massive conflicts of interest, and maybe caused the pandemic. Maybe actually is part of the reason why millions of people died in, with this heightened flu. But even more importantly, is the reason why millions of other people who didn't need to have their lives either disrupted or destroyed had that happen because of senior lockdown. The massive, unnecessary collateral damage of what amounted to totalitarian communism in America in the aftermath of the Wuhan virus was actively campaigned by Anthony Fauci, even while he said he wasn't doing this. On March 14th, 2020, you wrote that the task force recommendations were driven by me, yourself, Deb, and CDC. The next day, you wrote that you had convinced Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the New York City schools. So, you were involved. That same night, Governor Gavin Newsom's chief of staff told you that the governor had decided to close California schools, bars, and restaurants after watching you on television. This man induced massive destruction on America. [clears throat] And as we sit here now, five years later, this should be a bipartisan thing to look back and say Anthony Fauci was a villain. Anthony Fauci was a liar, provably, demonstrably. It's not slander or libel to call him a liar. He has said one thing to the public and another thing in private, and we have it on tape and on paper. That is all. He was the most important voice in all of this. He enriched himself such that his wealth went up by $5 million during the pandemic, from apparently a net worth of $7 million to to a peak of $12 million. And then he received a, a completely unprecedented retroactive pardon that just happened to go back to the period during which he began funding the engineering of the exact virus that would be released on the world out of China with a global adversary as his playground. Great. [laughter] Should be bipartisan. Should be like, "Yeah, with, with the hindsight clarity we should all now have, we should all be feeling pretty bad about Anthony Fauci." Even my mom, who was always kind of reluctant to, uh, turn her back on Fauci because he's Italian. She's like, "Oh, but he's Italian." It's like, "No, Mom. My mom's Italian, too, Mom. They're not all good. We're not all good."
>> You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you say to somebody, "You're going to like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us. You understand?"
>> Well, what did the Democrats do? They basically, well, just watch.
>> I just want to say, and start by just saying thank you to you for your service to this nation.
>> It, it went like this, over and over again.
>> Dr. Fauci, I want to start by thanking you for more than 50 years of service to this country at the National Institutes of Health. And it is unfortunate that you have been put in the position that you are in today.
>> It's unfortunate. He did nothing for that. But the most outrageous one comes from good old Senator Blumenthal.
>> Dr. Fauci, you've spent five decades in public service, including nearly four decades in leadership at the National Institutes of Health, helping to conquer COVID-19.
>> Conquered?
>> [laughter]
>> Every single person on the planet got it, but he conquered it.
>> But also HIV, swine flu, Zika, Ebola, and other epidemics with...
>> Other epidemics you may have invented or have yet to release.
>> Real-life results, saving human lives. Put aside all the flowery rhetoric that we hear in the United States Senate. Dr. Fauci has saved lives.
>> Dr. Fauci has saved lives. He has saved some lives and caused the deaths of other people. So where does it net out? I think the COVID, the COVID catastrophe might wash out whatever victories he had on his scoreboard. Of course, Senator Blumenthal makes a comparison that I couldn't let slide this Friday. This one's just outrageous, and I'll tell you why.
>> The proceeding underway is simply an effort to trap Dr. Fauci in some kind of criminal wrongdoing. That is not the purpose of a congressional hearing. Not the valid purpose of a congressional hearing. During some of the dark days in this body under Senator Joe McCarthy, it became standard operating procedure.
>> An appeal to the dark days of the McCarthy era by Senator Blumenthal is really rich because this guy was maybe among the most diabolical forces for the censorship industrial complex, uh, who bought hook, line, and sinker every element of the alleged Russian interference narrative that constituted a grotesque coup attempt. Um, here he is, 2018, Blumenthal and White House call on Twitter to inform all users who interacted with Russian accounts. This guy sucks. This guy is the new McCarthy, and he, he was actively in favor of shutting everyone down that didn't agree with him. So spare me your, your references to Mr. McCarthy. Senator McCarthy 2.0. Senator, worse than McCarthy ever was. Cuz actually, McCarthy also happened to be mostly correct, and most of the people he flagged as being communists were, were actually stated enemies of the country. So, you know, I'm not saying I agree with everything Senator McCarthy did. I am saying I understand. But that's the Democrats. They are still basically living the life of this. When it comes to Anthony Fauci,
>> Plenty are grateful. You can join Fauci fan clubs. There's Fauci footwear, even fancy Fauci food, donuts in this case. You can buy a "Honk for Dr. Fauci" yard sign, or you can take a nap on your "I Heart Fauci" throw pillow. You can ponder whether to go outside while wearing your "What Would Fauci Do?" t-shirt, or you can stay inside and light your Dr. Fauci prayer candle. And remember Shepherd Ferry's famous Obama image? Well, Dr. Fauci inspired others to copy it, giving us a new way to look at hope.
>> A new way to look at hope. It was also a really good way to look at the degree of mental illness that had captured the young people of America. Dr. Fauci, give us vaccines. Help all the people who have been quarantined. We'll wear our masks, and we'll have to stay distant. We'll wash our hands, and we'll be more resistant.
>> This was the dry run for communism in America.
>> Yes. Promise us, please, we'll have a cure that can fight this disease.
>> And there's now only one Democrat basically who's got any sanity, and it's the one that I think a lot of us thought was was actually handicapped to the point of not being functional insane, and that is Senator John Fetterman of my, my birthplace, Pennsylvania, who actually was the only sane one on the blue side of the aisle, the only one that had any introspection about the timeframe. And I just got to call him out because at this point, I got to imagine his days as as a Democrat are numbered. How could he continue to stay in the party? I just don't know. I have had members of my family die from COVID. And now I also grieve for people that I've met that have lost their business through the, the pandemic. During the pandemic, I was the lieutenant governor. So we were in the middle of, of all of that maelstrom, trying to find the right balance between protecting life and protecting the economics. And for all of it, and it's worth remembering that Pennsylvania was the home of, um, Rachel Levine, the Babylon Bee's Man of the Year, who took his mother out of the, uh, out of the nursing homes where COVID, COVID-infected people were being shoved in, in some of the most insane things that ever happened on Earth.
>> And I'm not sure if we got it all right or wrong. Um, but without a doubt, I can continue to question myself, but one that I, it's not about much more your regrets, but I have one, and that is early on, there was the theory that the virus could have emerged from the lab. And early on, that became like a right-wing kind of theory. And I thought, it seemed to make sense. You know, I hope, I think that the next time our nation's facing something like this, we are not become, you know, as I might have been, blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that's different than, than you are.
Here, here, Senator Fetterman, continuing to be reasonable, continuing to be an actual adult capable of saying, "Oh man, I was wrong. I, [clears throat] was just succumbing to partisan hackery." But I think the reason why he says that, and the reason why the rest of his party won't, and the movement that has captured his party completely, is because John Fetterman is the first to say he's not a progressive. "I am not a progressive." John Fetterman breaks with the left, showing a maverick side. This is, I think, the real lesson of Anthony Fauci as a character, what he is, what he represents, and why he remains an important lesson, especially here in 2026, when the radical left is increasingly taking over one of our parties in the form of the Democratic Socialists of America. Progressivism, the belief [clears throat] that you can straighten the crooked arrow of man, that you can have credentialed experts in lab coats decide how the society should operate through enlightened administration. This is the ideology that co and Dr. Fauci as a character, as a person, as a man, once again, completely and fully invalidated. And, and he evokes really sort of the father, not philosophically, but in terms of power of the progressive movement, Woodrow Wilson, my recurrent great Satan of American history. Woodrow Wilson was the ultimate progressive. He was the Obama of the early 20th century. The Princeton academic who believed that all of these ideas of the founding fathers, that we have to constrain the power of government, that the public had an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that we had a First Amendment that actually was essential for the pursuit of truth, because there was no one that had any access to the truth in some divine way other than God himself. These were the values of this country. The values that founded this country, the deeply held commitments of the people in this country at its founding and for decades and decades to come. And he rejected all of it. In place of it, he believed that we had transcended this messiness of a democratic republic, a constrained state that was limited in its scope, that left most of the most important decisions to the public to sort out for ourselves. He believed no, we, we, as in his class of people, the credentialed class, the managerial elite, that they have all the answers, that they know somehow that they have some secret knowledge of what is right and what is true. In fact, it's so secret that sometimes it has to be kept secret because the rubes of the public really aren't capable of dealing with all the facts.
This gets to Walter Lippmann, a character who Woodrow Wilson put in charge of the postwar propaganda machine. He was a journalist, a major important figure in the birth of essentially 20th-century globalism. He was a big booster of the European Union. And all of their ideas are very, very fundamentally European. They're aristocratic. That there are a kind of, um, predestined class of people who just know better and are better. Lippmann talked about this in his book, *Public Opinion*. He put it into effect in public policy. And of course, all of these people were eugenicists, which they also share in common with Anthony Fauci and his gain-of-function research, debauchery, his use of baby parts, this kind of heinous Dr. Mengele stuff. This class of people at this time were all in on all of that. This was the height of the eugenics movement. It is not a coincidence that the eugenics movement and the birth of political progressivism happened at the same time and were literally the same people. Of course, these things got operationalized by this man, Edward Bernays, who was essentially the father of modern public relations. And so when you see Anthony Fauci going out there into the world, being the PR man for his ideology, he, in some ways, is being the perfect vessel or vehicle for an Edward Bernays-style war on the public's mind. A war to capture the public's mind. His book, *Propaganda*, which is *The Public Mind in the Making*. Propaganda. Edward Bernays. That's who these people were. That's what progressivism is, and that is what Anthony Fauci fundamentally represents. We are living, as we sit here, in what I believe should be the death of progressivism, not the death of differences in politics. There is, there, we will always disagree, and frankly, we will always have the utopian schemers that constitute the progressives and the communists. But on a question of the facts, this idea should be dead. The idea that there is a class of people who, by virtue of their credentials, who, and really through virtue purely of their connections and relationships, their friend groups, their ways of speaking, their culture, that they have some special access to the truth, and that the truth can be known fully, perfectly, by people in this world. That is what Friedrich Hayek would call scientism. "Trust the science" is about as anti-scientific as it gets, but it is thoroughly progressive. That is a progressive PR propaganda reframe of the notion of science. When Dr. Anthony Fauci said,
>> They're really criticizing science because I represent science.
He was being thoroughly progressive and 100% wrong, because the essence of science, the essence of thought, the essence of the pursuit of truth, is grappling with our own ignorance. It's confronting mistakes. It's having a continual process of error correction, which happens through free speech and public discourse, through raucous debate, through people being allowed to say, "Hey, you said this, you said this, they don't add up. Are you a liar?" Or, "You predicted this would happen and it didn't, so I think you're wrong." And you don't just get to shut them down like Senator Blumenthal would would still have us be doing, or content moderate people's opinions out of existence. The entire architecture of this censorship industrial complex that came into full flowering during the peak of Anthony Fauci's powers, and which is now a matter of law in the European Union, and will be brought back to America the second progressives take power, because they believe this, that notion that we can control what people are allowed to see and sculpt the narrative. That is a Wilsonian-Lippmann-Bernays construction. That is an effort to use propaganda to shape public opinion. That is what Anthony Fauci represented. We have it in black and white. And we have to continue to battle it because this is the fight for the soul of the country as we sit here in our 250th birthday year. In many ways, the period of time that was launched around 1913 through to the present was a kind of not-so-quiet counterrevolution against the founding fathers. And we need that cycle to turn again if we're going to continue to flourish as a free society here in America. We have to not merely turn the tides back, but move forward with a fresh understanding of just how fundamentally wrong the past 100 years of political philosophy has been. And no one, no one person I think in our modern discourse, except perhaps Barack Obama, better exemplifies that what we must reject than Anthony Fauci.
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