Fauci Pleads the Fifth and Kills Republicans’ Big Covid Hearing

Anthony Fauci will not testify before Congress Wednesday. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was subpoenaed to testify before a Republican-led Senate committee regarding his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he won’t—instead, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment in his opening statements. Fauci remarked that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul—who issued the subpoena and has repeatedly called for Fauci’s arrest—has an “obvious obsession with calling for my…