Anthony Fauci’s recent appearance before Congress is a good reminder that his reign of error would not have been possible without a deeply partisan and starstruck press.
As Fauci sat last week before members of Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment and wriggling in his seat like a toddler, one could not help but be reminded that this man was sold to the public as a real-life, living saint.
He was treated as a savior — even as he lied through his teeth.
Fauci said he had “nothing to do” with the disastrous pandemic-era school closures, challenging critics to “show me a school that I shut down.” But his own diary, which, in a classic case of Faucian carelessness, he saved to a government server, reveals the truth.
In now-released personal notes, Fauci boasted of having persuaded New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the city’s schools. He also bragged to himself that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) chief of staff had told him personally that, “based on my TV appearances,” the governor “decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants.”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member