The week in whoppers: Fauci pulls a 180 on testifying, Mamdani cons New Yorkers on city-run groceries and more

“I am very happy to testify ..

.I have nothing to hide.

I’m going to ..

.cooperate fully.” — Dr.

Anthony Fauci, 2022vs. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment.” — Fauci, WednesdayWe say: Fauci took the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination over and over in response to lawmakers’ questions on COVID, though a presidential pardon shields him from prosecution and the questions concerned key decisions during the worst health crisis in a century.Nothing to hide? Ha! He disproved that 111 times. “Our five city-run grocery stores will set prices .

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at 30% below typical retail prices.” — Mayor Mamdani, MondayWe say: Please.Those stores won’t open for years (if ever).

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Never miss a story.And if they do, they’ll enjoy humongous subsidies paid for by city taxpayers — making them, as Jonathan Turley points out, “the most expensive groceries in the city.” That is, until supplies run out.“I [don’t turn] over private, identifying information of the citizens of New Jersey.” — NJ Gov.

Mikie Sherrill, WednesdayWe say: The feds seek data on 6,600 non-citizens who registered to vote in the Garden State (including 400 who did vote), but in vowing to never comply, Sherrill referred to them as “citizens.” Memo to Sherrill: Your state is part of the US, not its own nation — and Washington oversees immigration policy.  “After decades of ..

.covering for Jeffrey Epstein, the British and American governments seemed to have lost interest in prosecuting sex crimes, [until]  the Tate brothers criticized Israel.” — Tucker Carlson in The New York Times, July 23We say: Most obviously, if law enforcement were cracking down on people who criticize Israel, they’d be target...