4 takeaways from Fauci's journals ahead of his Senate testimony
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Adding to this, 1:56 In this April 22, 2020, photo President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Alex Brandon/AP Dr. Anthony Fauci will sit before the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) on Wednesday in what will surely be a fiery hearing before a committee chaired by Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has long accused Fauci of deceiving Americans about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, Paul is expected to focus on Fauci's private journal entries between December 2019 and December 2022.
Notably, Over the weekend, Paul rolled out a tranche of Fauci's journal entries -- a more than 1,100-page document -- revealing his inner thoughts about the origins of COVID, a detailed log of events within the White House situation and press briefing rooms, and his myriad media appearances about the response to COVID-19 and other health outbreaks.
As per the latest buzz, In this April 22, 2020, photo President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Alex Brandon/AP Paul subpoenaed Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to testify about his time leading the country's pandemic response. Paul has shared he aims to hold Fauci accountable for his oversight during the response and has called for Fauci's imprisonment in the past. However, Fauci has protection from potential prosecution because of a preemptive pardon issued by former President Joe Biden.
In further updates, In a statement announcing the pardon of Fauci and others before he left office, Biden shared it was not issued because of any acknowledgement of wrongdoing or as an admission of guilt of any offense -- it was issued because of threats of "unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions" by future administrations.
On top of that, While it's not clear who or what entity Paul subpoenaed to obtain the diary entries, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared Monday on Fox News that he provided the records to the committee.
"It took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers, where they had been sequestered and secreted and we handed them over this week to Rand Paul and [Sen.] Ron Johnson," Kennedy shared.