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What he’s saying: Paul has an “unhinged obsession with me,” and his motive for the hearing 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 said.

“Although it pains me to do so … under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci said.

2:30 Fauci video [threads]

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    23 hours ago

    a bigger deal was trump killed funding for people who specifically looked for viruses jumping into farm animals in china. he of course thought why are we paying to do this when china should. Similar to how they stopped paying to innoculation cattle south of us so screw worm would not creep up here. The last person in that program left in something like october of 2019. I mean he could not have screwed up worse if he was trying to.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      2·
      12 hours ago

      MAGA: “Why are we monitoring a problem we don’t have? Cancel that, and send the money to a Billionaire, preferably Me.”

      Program is cancelled, and the problem it was monitoring spreads to America, but we didn’t notice until it was too late, because nobody was monitoring it.

      MAGA: “Oh, that’s how that works. Well, it’s Biden’s fault. Or Obama’s. Or Hillary’s.”

    • Abyssian@lemmy.world
      5·
      21 hours ago

      I’m not… fuck, is reading comprehension that bad even on Lemmy? I’ve been a leftist and science nerd my entire life. I’m not saying Obama bad. I’m certainly not saying Trump good.

      I’m giving my best guess at the reasons behind the current administration trying to grill Fauci at this given point in time. The NIH funding for WIV to research GoF in bat corona viruses started in a year Obama happened to be President. Trump has some irrational (likely partly racist) hatred of Obama. The Midterms are coming up, and looking very bad for Republicans.

      It seems reasonable that Trump or shitsack Miller or someone else in his Inner Circle of Evil Twats is trying to use this as another potential way to stir up shit or at least try to throw more shit at Democrats, before the election. That isn’t saying I think Democrats deserve any of that shit. But even Maga fuckwits are starting to lose confidence and trust in Trump, and they’re very stupid, so if they could get Fauci to say slip up in front of cameras and the Senate in a way that let them start screaming “OBAMA MADE COVID!” the majority of the morons who might have been slipping off the idiot train back into reality and rational thought would likely believe it enough to vote the hard R again.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        I get you but maybe Im missreading the tone. Are you responding like somehow I was arguing with you rather than mentioning another significant thing around it. Mainly from your first paragraph.

        • Abyssian@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Ahh, nah you’re right. That comment of mine had 6 downvotes, and something else trying to explain had 20+ with zero upvotes because it seems people saw lots of words, skimmed, and assumed I must be agreeing that Fauci is the devil 'cause Trump said so.

          When I saw you listing Trump’s part in it and what a sack of shit he is I just assumed you were also thinking I was an an idiot Trumpian. My bad.