Anthony Fauci spent years embodying: “I am the Science.”
Today, Fauci became: “I plead the Fifth.”
Carla Gericke of The Independents breaks down today’s explosive Senate hearing, where Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times after Sen. Rand Paul released his pandemic-era “diary.”
Let’s be clear: Fauci has constitutional rights. Everyone does. That is the point.
But constitutional rights do not erase public accountability—and this hearing exposed the operating system in all its grotesque glory.
The man who helped shape policies affecting hundreds of millions of people can refuse every substantive question under oath, while ordinary Americans were fined, fired, censored, deplatformed, separated from dying relatives, and treated like criminals for questioning those same policies.
Democrats called the hearing an attempt to “entrap” Fauci. But what about the Americans entrapped by mandates, emergency powers, shifting rules, and a public-health bureaucracy that demanded obedience while shielding its own decision-making?
From the diary’s public-private contradictions to the spectacular collision between the “I am the Science” persona and the Fifth Amendment, Carla examines what the record actually shows, why the accountability gap exists, and why the court of public opinion may be the only courtroom left.
Watch. Decide for yourself.
BONUS joke: Fauci’s rap name should be “Fifthy Stents.”