Fauci baffles Congress by invoking his right to remain silent 111 times

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“It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify today.”

A visibly shaken Anthony Fauci could not even answer what colour tie he was wearing as he had to be dragged out to Capitol Hill to answer questions about the government’s covid-19 response, his private diary, and taxpayer-funded research in Wuhan.

Again and again, Fauci invoked his right to remain silent – 111 times in all – even when senators asked him about a folder sitting directly in front of him, what day of the week it was, and whether he would simply turn around and look at people who said their lives were destroyed by covid-era policies.

Lawmakers warned him over and over: the Fifth Amendment (the right to remain silent) no longer applies to him because of Biden’s blanket pardon. He could admit everything and still walk away without prosecution.

Fauci had total immunity, and he still refused to tell the truth.

That didn’t stop him from being battered and bruised along the way.

Here are the biggest moments from the hearing. And the big takeaway moving forward.

Sen. Rand Paul began the hearing by laying out Fauci’s litany of misdeeds and demanding he apologize to the American people and ask for forgiveness.

“The American people deserve an apology.”

“I hope today Dr. Fauci will come clean, admit it was a mistake to fund dangerous research in China…….”

“Ask forgiveness….…”

“You did not tell the American people the full story.”

Fauci used his opening statement not to address the underlying allegations, but to attack Senator Paul instead.

With his papers visibly shaking, Fauci accused Paul of waging a personal campaign to embarrass, intimidate, and ultimately prosecute him.

“Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, ‘behind bars,’ unquote.”

Fauci then announced that he would invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than answer the committee’s questions.

“Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion.”

“Therefore, although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.”

As the hearing progressed and Fauci refused to answer every question that came his way, Paul directed Fauci to a red folder sitting on the desk in front of him. Inside, Paul said, was a copy of the federal statute governing a witness’s refusal to answer questions before Congress.

Paul then asked Fauci whether he had the folder.

Paul: “In the red folder on your table is a copy of Section 192 of Title 2 of the U.S. Code. That section makes it a crime for a witness to refuse to answer any questions. Do you have that in front of you?”

Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.”

Paul paused to make sure the absurdity was entered into the official record.

Paul: “Let the record reflect that the witness has refused to answer whether there’s a folder in front of him based on his Fifth Amendment right.”

Paul gave Fauci another opportunity to answer at least one question.

Fauci refused again.

Paul explicitly told Fauci he could not plead the Fifth as a blanket excuse to obstruct the entire investigation, particularly after receiving a pardon.

Paul: “Dr. Fauci, would you like to at least answer this one question for us today?”

Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline….…”

Paul responded that the chairman had denied Fauci’s assertion of privilege and directed him to answer.

Paul: “The chairman has denied your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer, but you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the existence of the pardon.”

“It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify today.”

Sen. Ron Johnson then turned to a deeply personal disclosure found in Fauci’s diary.

Fauci’s private notes revealed that he suffered a pulmonary infarction five months after receiving his first injection. He kept his medical condition hidden and kept recommending the shots for everyone else.

Johnson asked Fauci if he ever considered whether his infarction was linked to the jab.

Johnson: “Your diaries now show that you actually suffered pulmonary infarction….…”

“I was just wondering whether it ever went through your thoughts that maybe that injection, all those boosters you took, might have caused that?”

Fauci did not provide the public with an answer.

Johnson next brought out a massive stack of papers representing studies showing that ivermectin was “60 to 70%” effective.

He contrasted those studies with Fauci’s public declaration that there was no evidence supporting the treatment.

Johnson: “You said there’s no evidence that ivermectin is helpful.”

“On that exact same day there was a website that was tracking the randomized controlled studies.”

Johnson held up the documents.

“Here they are showing 60, 70 percent efficacy of ivermectin. The same day you say there’s no evidence. There were all kinds of evidence.”

In the end, Paul closed the hearing by giving Fauci one final opportunity to answer a direct question and avoid what the chairman described as an unlawful blanket refusal to testify.

Paul: “I’m going to give you one more opportunity to comply with the law. Did you destroy any federal record or tell anyone else to?”

Fauci: “I respectfully decline to answer….…”

Paul then announced that the committee would vote the following week on certifying Fauci in contempt of Congress.

Paul: “Because you refuse to answer, citing a privilege under the Fifth Amendment that is unsupported because of your pardon, and after being denied the right to do so, this committee has scheduled a vote next week on a resolution certifying your contempt.”

If approved, the contempt referral would be sent to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution. Contempt of Congress can carry up to one year in jail, while perjury can carry up to five.

Once you know that, it suddenly makes sense how Fauci acted this whole hearing. He would rather spend a year in jail than admit what he’s done or perjure himself.

Faced with that choice, Fauci chose to decline an answer in front of the US Congress and the entire world – 111 times in total.

Watch the full hearing:

yogaesoteric
July 30, 2026

 

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