In disgracing himself, Fauci finally gets the attention he craved

Anthony Fauci is making headlines again. He must be so pleased. The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director’s diaries have revealed him to be a pathetic, attention-seeking narcissist, as well as a liar.

This week, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times in order to avoid answering questions before a Senate hearing. But the bureaucrat who once famously told skeptics, “I represent science” is already operating under the protection of a blanket preemptive pardon doled out by Joe Biden’s autopen in 2025. So you have to wonder what he was scared of revealing.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who chaired the committee hearings, has hounded Fauci for years, accusing him of hiding his complicity in the development of the COVID virus. Paul, himself a doctor, has revealed evidence that Fauci’s agency helped finance gain-of-function research, which could have led to the development of the virus that causes COVID-19. Paul insists that some of that money went to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, which the CIA and many others cite as the likely source of the COVID outbreak. 

Fauci has long denied that any such funding existed. But documents published in 2021 through a Freedom of Information request show that taxpayer money was indeed given to EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that in turn funneled grant funds to the Wuhan lab for bat coronavirus research.

Richard Ebright, a biologist at Rutgers, pointed out when those documents became public that they exposed as “untruthful” claims by Fauci and others “that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in........

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