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Victor Davis Hanson: What Fauci Was Writing While America Lived in Fear

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

This episode was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Wednesday at a Senate hearing, where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

Sami Winc: So Victor, I wanted to look at it since you and Jack talked a little bit about Fauci. I know that there’s been a lot of news out about the origins of the virus. 

He says in his diary: 

“The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked-about person in the country and one of the most recognizable people in the world. Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I’m so busy. Seriously, POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I’m taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship. The entire Secret Service corps is coming over to me and chatting. They let me into the first gate without even checking ID. Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it’s all over the place that I am almost 80 years old.” 

And I’m reading that like a little kid because that 80-year-old sounds like a little kid here, Victor. 

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Victor Davis Hanson: So, he’s an academic of sorts. I mean, he left medical school, and he wasn’t really a practicing doctor. He went right into the bureaucracy and worked his way up. Then he turned what was a somewhat obscure agency at the time, the Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. I mean, we do have the CDC, the Center for Disease Control, and we have the FDA, and we have the National Institutes of Health. But somehow, because he was there 40 years, he built an industry and got all this power. 

He had all this power within a kind of closet community. So, when he got out, he got a little bit of fame during the AIDS crisis when he was in his 40s, and that was a narcotic that addicted him to it. Then when the influenza came out in 2013, in those diaries there’s mention that he feels shorted, that he doesn’t get enough airtime. 

So this was his big bonanza, and the problem he has is not just that he was wrong. I mean, he said masks have no utility, but then later you have to wear a mask, and then two is better. Then he said, “If you get the double sequence, Moderna, Pfizer, you will not be infectious and you will not be infected. It’s that simple. It’s........

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