Senate Republicans try to smear Fauci over COVID, but he refuses to play their game. “There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.
Fauci, who was appearing before Paul's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under subpoena, took the weapon out of Paul's hands by simply refusing to answer a single question other than to state — 116 times by my count — "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution." (Los Angeles Times)
In the meantime, while the GOP Senators are trying their damnedest to rewrite the history of COVID during Trump’s first Reich, pretending that Heir Trump poohed-poohed the entirety of the dreaded virus. We have a current Director of HHS, Bobbie (I eat roadkill, and snort cocaine off of bathroom toilets) Kennedy doing his best to remove the word Health and Human from the services his department was established to defend!
As a reminder, Rand and your self-absorbed GOP hypocrites: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump frequently downplayed the virus's severity, claiming it would "go away" and suggesting that the number of cases would soon be "close to zero," despite warnings from health officials about the expected spread of the virus.
The GOP loves to play the game of gotcha when it comes to anyone who is not them and indeed who is not their Lord and Master, Trump. They refuse to look at the world around them, pretending that the measles virus has erupted like Mt. Vesuvius, that foodborne bacteria have gone wild, that too many people have no access to vaccinations, and that nutrition programs in the country and around the world are causing severe health hardships.
But, Rand Paul at heart is a Republican so the here and now never matter, because he and his MAGA-based hypocrites are too afraid to help the people who voted them into power because Trump hates those people
