Dr. Fauci Pleads The 5th During GOP-Led Sham Hearing About The COVID-19 Pandemic

Republicans scapegoat Dr. Fauci to distract from their own pandemic failures. Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid perjury, angering GOP senators. Social media calls out Republicans' attempt to relitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Anna Moneymaker / Dr. Fauci Republicans are down so bad right now that they are revisiting the COVID-19 pandemic and are trying to blame Dr. Anthony Fauci for how it was handled. Dr. Fauci should be enjoying retirement and the summer with his family. Still, instead he had to travel to Capitol Hill for a GOP-led congressional hearing on the origins of COVID and how Trump led the response, which quickly became contentious when Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times to avoid the possibility of giving Republicans ammo they could use to prosecute him for perjury possibly. Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, immediately had Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in their feelings, especially Rand Paul, whom Fauci directly called out, saying in his opening statement that the Kentucky Senator had an “unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution...