Miranda Devine: Faucis silence on his monstrous COVID sins spoke volumes and solidified him as a reprehensible villain

What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr.Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic ­diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused.Fauci on Wednesday was comforted by the praise of Democrat senators who hailed him as a hero, thanked him for his “service to this nation” and sympathized with him as a “scapegoat” of right-wing conspiracy theorists.New Jersey Sen.

Andy Kim even quoted Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech to valorize Fauci, the former top US infectious-disease expert who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for ­decades.Like the Black Knight in “Monty Python,” still pugnacious after being reduced to a bloody stump, the Fauci puffers refuse to see they have no leg left to stand on.The damage their censorship did during COVID, and their dishonest glossing of Fauci’s reputation, damns them.Yet instead of self-reflection in the face of overwhelming evidence of Fauci’s complicity in one of the deadliest man-made health crises in history, they double down.

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