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Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons
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Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons
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@janhoglund The international #science community can now empathize with the neighbour of #UnitedStates Senator #RandPaul - who *represents* #Kentucky. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/neighbor-who-attacked-sen-rand-paul-was-upset-over-yard-debris-documents-say
#Boycott Bourbon 🥃 to #resist #fascism in #USpol with #ElbowsUp. 💪
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@janhoglund The international #science community can now empathize with the neighbour of #UnitedStates Senator #RandPaul - who *represents* #Kentucky. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/neighbor-who-attacked-sen-rand-paul-was-upset-over-yard-debris-documents-say
#Boycott Bourbon 🥃 to #resist #fascism in #USpol with #ElbowsUp. 💪
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#RandPaul described a full #Senate vote as unnecessary. #Democrats said Paul was violating Senate rules by skipping the vote, which would likely fail to achieve the necessary 60-vote majority, & called the move dangerous & unprecedented.
A #DOJ spox confirmed copies of the referral had been sent to the DOJ leadership & the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC.
#law #Fauci #Congress #scapegoat #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump
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#RandPaul described a full #Senate vote as unnecessary. #Democrats said Paul was violating Senate rules by skipping the vote, which would likely fail to achieve the necessary 60-vote majority, & called the move dangerous & unprecedented.
A #DOJ spox confirmed copies of the referral had been sent to the DOJ leadership & the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC.
#law #Fauci #Congress #scapegoat #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump
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#Republican US Senator #RandPaul formally asked the #DOJ to prosecute Dr. #Fauci after a committee contempt vote along party lines, bypassing the necessary full #Senate vote.
Paul sent the referral, a formal request to consider #criminal charges, after the contempt finding. But the Kentucky senator, a longtime Fauci antagonist, bypassed a referral vote by the full Senate.
#law #Congress #scapegoat #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-senate-panel-votes-hold-fauci-contempt-congress-2026-08-06/ -
#Republican US Senator #RandPaul formally asked the #DOJ to prosecute Dr. #Fauci after a committee contempt vote along party lines, bypassing the necessary full #Senate vote.
Paul sent the referral, a formal request to consider #criminal charges, after the contempt finding. But the Kentucky senator, a longtime Fauci antagonist, bypassed a referral vote by the full Senate.
#law #Congress #scapegoat #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-senate-panel-votes-hold-fauci-contempt-congress-2026-08-06/ -
Justice Earl Warren Ruled: Congress Isn’t a Stage, Rand Paul Needs To Pay Heed
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren would have had a field day with the spectacle of Senator Rand Paul’s interrogation of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Warren was known for his polite discourse and understood and ruled that Congress is not empowered to haul citizens before its committees simply to stage a performance. In Watkins v. United States (1957), Warren wrote for the Court that Congress’s investigative power is not a blank check. A legislative body, he said, cannot hold hearings […] -
Justice Earl Warren Ruled: Congress Isn’t a Stage, Rand Paul Needs To Pay Heed
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren would have had a field day with the spectacle of Senator Rand Paul’s interrogation of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Warren was known for his polite discourse and understood and ruled that Congress is not empowered to haul citizens before its committees simply to stage a performance. In Watkins v. United States (1957), Warren wrote for the Court that Congress’s investigative power is not a blank check. A legislative body, he said, cannot hold hearings […] -
#RandPaul is a piece of shit. He is a blight on the country. #GOP #GOPAreFascists #TrumpIsAFascist
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/06/nx-s1-5921383/anthony-fauci-contempt-of-congress-vote
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#RandPaul is a piece of shit. He is a blight on the country. #GOP #GOPAreFascists #TrumpIsAFascist
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/06/nx-s1-5921383/anthony-fauci-contempt-of-congress-vote
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Fauci Contempt Vote clears a Senate panel. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, and Rand Paul's committee just referred him to the DOJ.
https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/u-s-politics/fauci-contempt-vote/
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Rand Paul is a disgrace to the U.S. Congress and the State of Kentucky. It has been his intention all along to trick Dr. Fauci into saying something that could be used to fabricate charges of lying to Congress and since Fauci avoided that trap Paul is now abusing his power once again to fabricate contempt of Congress charges. I will gladly contribute to any legal defense fund for Dr. Fauci and I hope that Rand Paul is one day prosecuted for his crimes.
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Rand Paul is a disgrace to the U.S. Congress and the State of Kentucky. It has been his intention all along to trick Dr. Fauci into saying something that could be used to fabricate charges of lying to Congress and since Fauci avoided that trap Paul is now abusing his power once again to fabricate contempt of Congress charges. I will gladly contribute to any legal defense fund for Dr. Fauci and I hope that Rand Paul is one day prosecuted for his crimes.
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From the #NYT
If the committee wanted frank testimony and a full exploration of unresolved pandemic questions, senators could have offered him limited or full immunity covering the testimony, a number of law experts said.
Not doing so “debunks their claim that he’s completely protected by presidential pardon,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, who is a constitutional law professor. “It’s only because they imagine that he can still be prosecuted that they wouldn’t offer him immunity.”
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From the #NYT
If the committee wanted frank testimony and a full exploration of unresolved pandemic questions, senators could have offered him limited or full immunity covering the testimony, a number of law experts said.
Not doing so “debunks their claim that he’s completely protected by presidential pardon,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, who is a constitutional law professor. “It’s only because they imagine that he can still be prosecuted that they wouldn’t offer him immunity.”
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🤬🤯 beyond disgraceful
The #Senate “Homeland Security” Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony S. #Fauci in #contempt of #Congress for his refusal last week to answer questions from the panel. The committee’s chairman, #Republican Senator #RandPaul of Kentucky, has said he wants to see Dr. Fauci “in prison.”
#law #scapegoat #PublicHealth #PublicDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/fauci-contempt-of-congress.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share -
🤬🤯 beyond disgraceful
The #Senate “Homeland Security” Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony S. #Fauci in #contempt of #Congress for his refusal last week to answer questions from the panel. The committee’s chairman, #Republican Senator #RandPaul of Kentucky, has said he wants to see Dr. Fauci “in prison.”
#law #scapegoat #PublicHealth #PublicDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/fauci-contempt-of-congress.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share -
Senate panel votes to hold #Fauci in #contempt of Congress over #Covid hearing.
Good luck proving contempt charges! #RandPaul
Asserting #FifthAmendment is a constitutionally protected right.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/fauci-senate-contempt-vote-covid
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/fauci-senate-contempt-vote-covid
This overreach will end with the #senate having less power than it is trying to have, which will affect its ability moving forward. It will set a precedent of toothlessness which will preclude holding #trump cronies accountable should the senate switch power balance in #midterms.
#republicans , greedily and inadvertently, will shut the door on the abilities of corrective power, which they used in their power grabs, from being used against rhem.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/fauci-senate-contempt-vote-covid
This overreach will end with the #senate having less power than it is trying to have, which will affect its ability moving forward. It will set a precedent of toothlessness which will preclude holding #trump cronies accountable should the senate switch power balance in #midterms.
#republicans , greedily and inadvertently, will shut the door on the abilities of corrective power, which they used in their power grabs, from being used against rhem.
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I was going to rant about the threat of a #contemptofCongress charge against #AnthonyFauci for exercising his #5thAmendment right. Then I was reminded that #JoeBiden pardoned him. Not so sure now. I would have prefered that he give it to that dentist #RandPaul with both PHD barrels. Maybe he should have.
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I was going to rant about the threat of a #contemptofCongress charge against #AnthonyFauci for exercising his #5thAmendment right. Then I was reminded that #JoeBiden pardoned him. Not so sure now. I would have prefered that he give it to that dentist #RandPaul with both PHD barrels. Maybe he should have.
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117031574415801441
73-minute special
Taking apart #Trump ’s latest #disinformation — and the media who prop it up
Trump diversion from #economy, #immigration, and #IranWar: Blame #Communists!
GOP Senators, led by #RandPaul, threatening the imprisonment of #AnthonyFauci for his work during #COVID19 pandemic
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117031574415801441
73-minute special
Taking apart #Trump ’s latest #disinformation — and the media who prop it up
Trump diversion from #economy, #immigration, and #IranWar: Blame #Communists!
GOP Senators, led by #RandPaul, threatening the imprisonment of #AnthonyFauci for his work during #COVID19 pandemic
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117031574415801441
73-minute special
Taking apart #Trump ’s latest #disinformation — and the media who prop it up
Trump diversion from #economy, #immigration, and #IranWar: Blame #Communists!
GOP Senators, led by #RandPaul, threatening the imprisonment of #AnthonyFauci for his work during #COVID19 pandemic
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117031574415801441
73-minute special
Taking apart #Trump ’s latest #disinformation — and the media who prop it up
Trump diversion from #economy, #immigration, and #IranWar: Blame #Communists!
GOP Senators, led by #RandPaul, threatening the imprisonment of #AnthonyFauci for his work during #COVID19 pandemic
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Two messages to Rand Paul
This one at the top is from Facebook. The one below is also from Facebook: "You were vaccinated. Multiple times." A Pittsburgh chef fired that at Rand Paul this week, in reply to the senator's post claiming "we all knew infection was the best protection." Paul's post went up Tuesday, the day before he chaired the hearing where Anthony Fauci took the Fifth. He paired it with an AI cartoon of a grinning Fauci getting his shot, under the headline "Did You Get Your Fauci Ouchie?" A sitting […]https://thebluegrassbluespodcast.com/2026/08/01/two-messages-to-rand-paul/
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Two messages to Rand Paul
This one at the top is from Facebook. The one below is also from Facebook: "You were vaccinated. Multiple times." A Pittsburgh chef fired that at Rand Paul this week, in reply to the senator's post claiming "we all knew infection was the best protection." Paul's post went up Tuesday, the day before he chaired the hearing where Anthony Fauci took the Fifth. He paired it with an AI cartoon of a grinning Fauci getting his shot, under the headline "Did You Get Your Fauci Ouchie?" A sitting […]https://thebluegrassbluespodcast.com/2026/08/01/two-messages-to-rand-paul/
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#MitchMcConnell is (probably was ☠️) the most diabolical #hypocrite in #UnitedStates #history.
#RandPaul is such a congenital 🧬 asshole that his normally staid neighbour attacked him and broke several ribs while the ‘Aqua Buddha’ was mowing the grass around his #BasketOfDeplorables 🏡.
And let’s not even bother to mention the cretinous House Oversight Committee Chairman #JamesComer who is on track to become Governor.
I’m starting to think the people of #Kentucky are not very serious people. 🤔
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#MitchMcConnell is (probably was ☠️) the most diabolical #hypocrite in #UnitedStates #history.
#RandPaul is such a congenital 🧬 asshole that his normally staid neighbour attacked him and broke several ribs while the ‘Aqua Buddha’ was mowing the grass around his #BasketOfDeplorables 🏡.
And let’s not even bother to mention the cretinous House Oversight Committee Chairman #JamesComer who is on track to become Governor.
I’m starting to think the people of #Kentucky are not very serious people. 🤔
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Kentucky’s Two Senators: One Missing, One Investigating
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief
BAYBAY CITY, Leyte, Philippines — July 31, 2026 — 9:05 p.m. PhSTAs the U.S. Senate devoted national attention to renewed questions surrounding the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2023), an unusual political contrast emerged from Kentucky. The state’s senior senator, Mitch McConnell, remained absent from public view while recovering from a serious fall, while its junior senator, Rand Paul, chaired a highly publicized hearing involving former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci. The juxtaposition illustrates how political attention can become concentrated on historical controversies even as contemporary questions remain unresolved (Associated Press, 2026; U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, 2026).
Kentucky’s Absent Senior Senator
Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior senator since 1985, has been undergoing rehabilitation following injuries sustained in a June 2026 fall. His office has stated that he continues physical therapy and intends to complete his Senate term, but his prolonged absence from Capitol Hill and from public political events has generated continuing questions regarding his health and ability to fulfill the responsibilities of elected office (Associated Press, 2026).
Those questions are not merely personal. Every state is represented by two senators, and when one becomes largely absent for an extended period, the practical burden of public representation shifts significantly to the remaining member.
Rand Paul Returns to a Familiar Battle
Kentucky’s junior senator, Rand Paul, has spent years criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci over the federal response to COVID-19. Their public disagreements began during the pandemic, particularly over federal research funding, pandemic restrictions, and scientific testimony presented before Congress.
On July 29, 2026, Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in which Fauci appeared under subpoena. Rather than answer substantive questions, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. During the proceedings, Fauci’s attorney repeatedly attempted to address the committee without recognition and was ordered removed from the hearing room after repeated interruptions (U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, 2026).
The confrontation quickly became one of the most widely reported political events of the day.
A Pandemic Revisited
The COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019 and rapidly spread across the globe during 2020, fundamentally altering governments, economies, healthcare systems, and daily life. In the United States, Fauci became one of the most visible scientific advisers during President Donald Trump’s first administration.
Although Fauci served as a leading public-health adviser, authority over pandemic policy was divided among the White House, federal agencies, state governments, and local officials. Nevertheless, Fauci became a symbolic figure for both supporters and critics of pandemic-era policies.
The July 2026 hearing represented another chapter in a political conflict that has continued long after the public-health emergency itself subsided.
Accountability and Public Attention
The timing of the hearing presents an observation that future historians may find significant.
While Kentucky’s senior senator remained largely absent from public view because of ongoing rehabilitation, its junior senator became one of the nation’s most visible investigators, directing congressional attention toward decisions made during the COVID-19 pandemic—a global public-health emergency that began in late 2019, reached the United States in early 2020, and dominated public life through 2021 and beyond.
The renewed inquiry was unfolding in July 2026, more than six years after the first major U.S. outbreak, while immediate questions remained about McConnell’s health, extended absence, and present ability to represent Kentucky in the Senate.
Whether by design or circumstance, the Fauci hearing had the practical effect of redirecting national media attention away from those contemporary questions. Throughout his Senate career, McConnell became known for procedural strategy, agenda control, and careful management of political timing. Whether the 2026 hearing reflected ordinary congressional oversight, selective accountability, or a broader pattern of political obfuscation will ultimately be left for historians to determine.
Preserving the Record
Archives exist not to decide history but to preserve it.
The documented facts establish that one Kentucky senator was largely absent while recovering from injury, the other was conducting one of the Senate’s most visible hearings, and that hearing revisited events that began during the COVID-19 pandemic more than six years earlier.
Those relationships are matters of chronology rather than opinion. Their long-term historical significance will depend upon evidence that has yet to emerge.
References
Associated Press. (2026, July 28–30). Reports on Sen. Mitch McConnell’s rehabilitation and Senate absence. https://apnews.com/
U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. (2026, July 29). Hearing involving Dr. Anthony Fauci before the Committee. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/
U.S. National Institutes of Health. (n.d.). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases historical information. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/
#AnthonyFauci #congressionalOversight #COVID19 #KentuckySenate #MitchMcConnell #RandPaul #USPolitics -
It's an interesting choice on Rand Paul's part to remind us of the absolute shit show of 2020 made so much worse by Trump's and the GOP's mismanagement of public health agencies.
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It's an interesting choice on Rand Paul's part to remind us of the absolute shit show of 2020 made so much worse by Trump's and the GOP's mismanagement of public health agencies.
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Public servants in the USA watching the Fauci show trial and wondering what the fucking point of serving America is when it elects this trash to run the place into the ground...
...and the Media going along with it as well, why devote your life to public service when a bunch of quacks, gangsters and rapists will shit all over your work and claim you're the Devil.
A foul display
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Public servants in the USA watching the Fauci show trial and wondering what the fucking point of serving America is when it elects this trash to run the place into the ground...
...and the Media going along with it as well, why devote your life to public service when a bunch of quacks, gangsters and rapists will shit all over your work and claim you're the Devil.
A foul display
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@mattblaze Congenital asshole #RandPaul was lucky Dr. #Fauci pleaded his #5thAmendment rights when he was when badgered by credulous cretin from #Kentucky.
Rand ‘Aqua Buddha’ Paul wasn’t so lucky when his neighbour get fed up with living next to a #BasketOfDeplorables. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/neighbor-who-attacked-sen-rand-paul-was-upset-over-yard-debris-documents-say
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@mattblaze Congenital asshole #RandPaul was lucky Dr. #Fauci pleaded his #5thAmendment rights when he was when badgered by credulous cretin from #Kentucky.
Rand ‘Aqua Buddha’ Paul wasn’t so lucky when his neighbour get fed up with living next to a #BasketOfDeplorables. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/neighbor-who-attacked-sen-rand-paul-was-upset-over-yard-debris-documents-say
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@PBSNewsHour @headlines-PBSNewsHour So #SenatorPaul is going to hold Fauci in contempt for . . . exercising his Constitutional rights? 🤨
Well, #RandPaul has now met all the conditions to get his #MAGA card and decoder ring 🙄
What an #asshole
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@PBSNewsHour @headlines-PBSNewsHour So #SenatorPaul is going to hold Fauci in contempt for . . . exercising his Constitutional rights? 🤨
Well, #RandPaul has now met all the conditions to get his #MAGA card and decoder ring 🙄
What an #asshole
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Rand Paul is yet another twisted fuck
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Rand Paul is yet another twisted fuck
