Fauci’s Contempt Vote Scheduled for Next Week
The Senate will hold a contempt vote for Dr. Anthony Fauci next week, reports indicate.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will consider the contempt resolution on August 5. Should the resolution be approved, it will be sent to the Department of Justice with a recommendation to prosecute Fauci.
During Fauci’s hearing, where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said, “Because you refuse to answer citing a privilege that is unsupported…this committee has scheduled a vote next week on a resolution certifying your contempt.”
“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, ‘behind bars,’” Fauci said during his testimony.
“Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion,” he added. “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 to the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a subpoena to Fauci in June following his initial refusal to testify.