Dr.Anthony Fauci’s words are coming back to haunt him after resurfaced comments from a 2022 interview with CNN showed a complete 180 on his attitude toward testifying before Congress."I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee," Fauci told CNN in 2022.Fauci, under his lawyers’ guidance, did not answer a single question from Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., or others on the committee about his COVID-19 pandemic response or gain-of-function research, instead invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times.SEN RAND PAUL QUESTIONS WHETHER FAUCI'S INVOKING THE FIFTH AMENDMENT WAS VALID AFTER BIDEN PARDONAnthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to COVID-19, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.(Left (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images), Right (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images))"I have nothing to hide.
I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done… I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all," he added in the CNN interview roughly four years ago.Fox News Digital reached out to Fauci for comment on his 2022 assertion. Fauci argued during Wednesday’s hearing that Paul, who recently released more than 1,000 pages of his personal diary entries, has an "obvious obsession" with pushing for his prosecution.He said the diary release was designed 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."FAUCI'S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTEDAnthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and medical advisor to several U.S.presidents, testifies under subpoena about his role in the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, at a U.S.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., ...