Before the ever accelerating news cycle takes us back to combat operations with Iran, we should note one more facet of the Dr.Fauci story.That Dr.
Fauci invoked the protection of the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday should not surprise anyone.His diaries are damning.
Any statement he makes puts him in peril of violating 18 U.S.C.1001 which penalizes false statements to any federal official.Dr.
Fauci made many false statements during the Covid pandemic.He has received a pardon.
He does not want to re-enter the world of potential criminal conduct by trying to justify his evasions and falsehoods.INSIDE FAUCI'S PRIVATE DIARY: WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT TRUMP, TV PERSONALITIES AND CELEBRITIESDr.Fauci did a lot of good in his long career.
He also did a lot of harm.I trusted him completely at the beginning of the pandemic, but by the time of my third and final interview with him, I was urging him on air to resign as his lack of credibility was harming public health at that moment and long into the future.The interview angered him, which is fine.
Journalists should expect to anger people occasionally.It is part of the job.What Dr.
Fauci revealed to his diary that day has not yet received much attention.The September 29, 2021, entry shows that he himself suffered from full-blown "Trump Derangement Sydrome ("TDS").My attention has been fixed on this entry on September 29, 2021, and not because it followed the interview with me which angered him, but because, as Dr.
Fauci recorded, the interview "triggered him." The doctor’s entry, with its spelling and punctuation, concludes:"This conversation triggered in me some serious thinking about several things including when I actually would want to retire from the untenable situation that I am in of having 10s of millions of people hate me because I stand for the truth.Also, this nonsense about conflating the discussion about gain of function with the lab lead theory is preposterous and totally distracting and draining of everyone’...