FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican leading a dive into Dr.Anthony Fauci’s old government iPhone alleged that "career bureaucrats" within Fauci’s old agency are sabotaging the senator’s and others’ quest for information from the pandemic era.Sen.
Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital that he believed longtime employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were putting up roadblocks to his own probe and other information trawling expeditions pushed by HHS Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr."Again, we don't know what we don’t know," Johnson said.
"We don't know what HHS has.Bobby Kennedy doesn't know what HHS has."FAUCI HELD IN CONTEMPT AS COVID CELLPHONE LANDS IN HANDS OF SENATE INVESTIGATORSKennedy said Fauci is to blame for Americans’ lack of trust in public health and added that "they shouldn’t" because they were "lied to." (Alex Wong/Getty Images; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)Johnson, along with Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., received a copy of Fauci’s personal work phone from HHS as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s broader investigation into the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). On Monday, Johnson’s panel, the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released the first tranche of private messages found on the device, which included over 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails.The first batch of texts, exchanged between Fauci and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr.Rochelle Walensky and Dr.
Vivek Murthy, who would become surgeon general under the Biden administration, revealed that Fauci had concerns about the effects of the second dose of mRNA vaccines on pregnant women in the first trimester.FAUCI'S HHS IPHONE TURNED OVER TO SENATE INVESTIGATORS AS CONTEMPT VOTE LOOMS"I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of," Fauci wrote."Since many people have signif...