Miranda Devine: Fauci’s silence on his monstrous COVID sins spoke volumes — and solidified him as a reprehensible villain
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Former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.
Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused.
Fauci on Wednesday was comforted by the praise of Democrat senators who hailed him as a hero, thanked him for his “service to this nation” and sympathized with him as a “scapegoat” of right-wing conspiracy theorists.
New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim even quoted Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech to valorize Fauci, the former top US infectious-disease expert who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades.
Like the Black Knight in “Monty Python,” still pugnacious after being reduced to a bloody stump, the Fauci puffers refuse to see they have no leg left to stand on.
The damage their censorship did during COVID , and their dishonest glossing of Fauci’s reputation, damns them.
Yet instead of self-reflection in the face of overwhelming evidence of Fauci’s complicity in one of the deadliest man-made health crises in history, they double down.
History will not be kind to them, either.
“Admit it was a mistake to fund dangerous research in China,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the Fauci nemesis who leads the committee and is also a medical doctor who has closely studied the virus and the way it was engineered to hurt humans.
“Admit that the risk of this dangerous research exceeded any possible benefits. Ask forgiveness, and pledge to help our government devise safeguards, so a man-made epidemic never happens again.”
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The children locked out of school, the grandparents who died alone, the families torn apart, remain on his conscience.
We would wish him jail, yet he is unlikely to receive the punishment he has earned for directing tax dollars toward the dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in a Chinese lab that unleashed a pandemic that killed millions, and for the coverup and associated lockdown he helped orchestrate.
“All he had to do was tell the truth,” Paul said after the hearing, vowing to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress — the same charge that sent Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail.
At 85, Fauci may escape earthly justice, but his legacy is forever fouled, and the name Fauci will become “a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples,” to quote the Bible.
Still, the hearing proved oddly satisfying.
It was a long overdue public defenestration.
To watch Fauci, sociopath that he must be, sit there rigidly enduring a cold recitation of his sins from Paul and Senate colleagues was cathartic.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) detailed the human cost of Fauci’s lies.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) summed up Fauci’s legacy “not as the man who saved America from COVID, but as a man who destroyed the public trust in America’s public health institutions in exchange for five minutes of fame [to] fuel your own ego and be the center of attention.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered the mocking coup de grace: “Nothing says honesty like taking the Fifth, huh, Doc?” and forced Fauci into the humiliation of pleading the Fifth rather than answering what color his tie is, what day it is, what color is the carpet in front of him.
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The public gallery applauded when Paul threw out Fauci’s arrogant criminal lawyer, David Schertler, who seemed to think he could rebut the senators by proxy.
Paul made a point of saying Fauci had a half a dozen lawyers still there to represent him.
As we watch Fauci’s downfall in real time, we recognize the echo of all the epic comeuppances of mythology and literature. His diary reminds us of the villainess of the French novel “Dangerous Liaisons,” the Marquise de Merteuil, an aristocratic widow whose evil manipulations and true character are exposed when her private letters are released for all society to see. It’s confirmation that there is a moral accounting for us all.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Great Barrington Declaration heroes, Doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, who spoke up when it was dangerous and whom Fauci tried to destroy.
Elon Musk deserves mention for turning X into an open portal that bypassed the dishonest media narrative.
We owe particular thanks to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose doggedness unearthed Fauci’s diary.
“It took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers where they had been sequestered and secreted,” he told Laura Ingraham on…
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