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Body Language Expert: Fauci Looked Terrified, Fake, and Completely Busted Under Oath [WATCH]
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Body Language Expert: Fauci Looked Terrified, Fake, and Completely Busted Under Oath [WATCH]

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Newsmax host Greg Kelly and body language expert Lena Sisco analyzed Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate testimony, arguing that his posture, facial expressions, and physical movements revealed fear, stress, and what Sisco described as a lack of respect for those questioning him.

Kelly opened the discussion by reflecting on Fauci’s appearance before senators.

“Man, what a difference the truth makes!” Kelly said. “He was at times petrified, at times contemptuous, at times well.”

Introducing Sisco, Kelly asked for her overall assessment.

“Welcome back, Lena. I want to show you some specific clips, but do me a favor. Overall, just give us a quick snapshot. What kind of man did you see today testifying?”

Sisco did not hesitate.

“A liar.”

She referenced comments made during the hearing by Sen. Josh Hawley.

“I think Senator Awley. I hope I’m pronouncing his name right. He couldn’t have said it better. He said nothing says honesty more than taking the fifth.”

According to Sisco, refusing to answer questions can reflect concern about revealing deception.

“Listen, liars don’t want to talk because they’re so afraid that they’re going to give away the truth in their body language or words, so they say nothing.”

She added, “And that was the big elephant in the room today.”

Kelly then played footage showing Fauci repeatedly placing his fingertips together during the hearing.

“I found this to be I don’t know, I don’t know what the hell. What do you make of that? It says something.”

Sisco identified the gesture as a “steeple.”

“It does, and you’re right. So it’s a steeple, and it’s a power pose.”

She said the gesture often followed visible nervous behavior.

“But the funny thing is, is that he did it after he was fidgeting?”

According to Sisco, Fauci alternated between playing with his pen out of boredom and nervousness.

“So if you watched him play with his pen often, there were some times he played with it out of complete boredom, as though he wanted to leave, and other times out of nervous energy.”

She concluded that the hand gesture appeared calculated.

“Whenever he didn’t know what to do with his hands, he would go right to here to say, ‘Nope, I have to regain power and authority.’ But it was all contrived.”

Kelly also pointed to Fauci’s posture throughout the hearing.

“I found him. He was slouching a little bit.”

He added, “You know, if you were a nine-year-old kid at dinner, your mom would tell you to sit up a little bit.”

Sisco interpreted the body position as a subconscious response to fear.

“When the body curls up like balls in, his chin would tuck. He’d look down. He’d close his shoulders in. That is a subconscious reaction to fear.”

She explained that people instinctively protect vulnerable areas of the body when experiencing fear.

“So when we have fear, we will tend to protect our body. This is the most vulnerable spot of the body, the neck.”

Rather than touching his neck directly, Sisco said Fauci protected it by changing his posture.

“And you can see him by covering it up this way. And some people may touch their neck, but he doesn’t. He just tips and kind of curls over and avoids eye contact.”

Kelly next played video from Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who challenged Fauci during the hearing.

Moreno urged Fauci to acknowledge people who he said had been criticized for expressing views that later proved accurate.

“If you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid, and that you thought that during these times saying these things made you somehow a lesser human being, Dr. Fauci, you just turn around and look at the people Behind you,” Moreno said.

“You’re not willing to do that. That’s not a question. It’s not a question to your lawyers. Not a question. It’s a request.”

Moreno continued, “All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth. You can’t even look at him.”

After the clip, Kelly asked Sisco for her reaction.

“Wow! Did he want to? He looked a little scared there.”

Sisco said she noticed something different.

“He, but he also had a little smile on his face.”

She said Fauci displayed similar expressions several times during the hearing.

“And a couple times after he would be asked a question and gave us his canned response. He would smile.”

According to Sisco, that expression communicated confidence rather than concern.

“And that smile is, ‘I’m getting one over on you. I won this.'”

She concluded that Fauci showed little respect toward those addressing him.

“So for me, I really don’t think he cares at all.”

She added, “If he did, he would have turned around and looked at them out of respect. He has no respect.”

Kelly then turned to questioning by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who discussed scientific debate over natural immunity.

“My favorite quote from that is from Martin Koldor from from Harvard,” Paul said. “You called him one of the people that you had to take down, the fringe epidemiologist.”

Paul continued, “He jokingly said on Twitter, he said, ‘Yeah, we knew about natural immunity from 486 BC, from the time of the Athenian plague, we lost all knowledge of it in 2020. The good news is it’s slowly coming back, 24 to 2025. We’re beginning to understand what natural immunity is again-not something perfect, but a useful tool that could have been used, but also something that could have helped people.'”

Kelly then asked Sisco what she observed.

“What’s going on?”

Sisco said Fauci appeared significantly more stressed during Paul’s questioning.

“This topic stressed him out.”

She explained that several physical reactions suggested elevated stress.

“So I can tell that cortisol spiked in his system for two reasons.”

“Number one, he did this eye blink flutter, and when cortisol releases in the body, and it’s our stress hormone, it dries us out in our mouth and in our eyes.”

She also pointed to repeated face touching.

“And the next thing he started doing was touching his face a lot.”

Sisco concluded that the movements were consistent with someone experiencing heightened stress.

“Right, he’s scratching and touching. When cortisol releases in the body, we go into fight or flight. The blood goes to our head; it makes the surface of our skin itchy.”

She added, “So he’s scratching intensely during this question. That tells me it is very stressful for him.”

Kelly ended the segment with a joke directed at Sisco.

“Damn! I think I’m gonna just put my hands in my pockets, if I ever see you.”

Sisco quickly replied, “No, don’t do that. That’s not good.”

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Knife Wielding Maniac Meets Deadly Reality After Attacking LA County Deputies [WATCH]
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Knife Wielding Maniac Meets Deadly Reality After Attacking LA County Deputies [WATCH]

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A violent confrontation in Lancaster, California, ended exactly the way sane people would expect when a man allegedly armed with a knife attacked Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a parking lot.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released body camera footage Tuesday showing the June 20 incident, which began after a concerned citizen reported a man swinging knives in public. That call brought deputies to the scene, and the situation escalated fast.

According to KABC, the man was identified as Robert Castro. Surveillance footage shows three sheriff’s patrol vehicles arriving as deputies moved to confront him in the parking lot.

Castro is seen walking away at first, but that changed when the first deputy drove up.

Instead of complying or stopping, Castro turned toward the patrol vehicle and rushed in the deputy’s direction.

As the deputy exited his vehicle, Castro attacked him with a knife.

The deputy, facing a direct threat to his life, fired several rounds and Castro fell to the ground.

The Sheriff’s Department described the encounter plainly, without the usual activist fog machine that so often appears whenever officers are forced to make split-second decisions.

“Before Deputy #1’s patrol vehicle came to a stop, Castro turned and rapidly walked in the deputy’s direction.

Castro then ran at Deputy #1, drew a knife, stabbed the deputy, and Deputy #1 discharged his service weapon.”

A second deputy arrived moments later to assist his wounded partner.

When Castro moved toward the knife on the ground, that deputy ordered him not to reach for it and then opened fire when the danger continued.

“Don’t move, don’t move!” Stop reaching!” the deputy repeatedly yelled during the encounter.

Castro eventually stopped moving.

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He was later transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to KABC.

The wounded deputy was also taken to a hospital for treatment.

Physicians treated him for a stab wound, a detail that should matter to anyone still pretending these calls are harmless misunderstandings.

The Sheriff’s Department also released another portion of its account explaining the second deputy’s response.

It stated, “When Castro moves his hand, Deputy #2 commands him to ‘Stop reaching.’ The second deputy then opens fire.”

This is the kind of footage that cuts through the usual noise.

A citizen saw a man swinging knives, deputies responded, and one of those deputies was stabbed before deadly force was used.

In a healthier country, the lesson would be simple.

Do not charge police officers with a knife, do not stab them, and do not reach again once you are on the ground beside the weapon.

But in today’s political climate, especially in places dominated by soft on crime talking points, even obvious cases can get dragged into the familiar circus.

The public gets lectures from people who were nowhere near the scene, while deputies are expected to absorb chaos and somehow make everyone happy.

Body camera footage matters because it lets the public see what officers actually faced.

In this case, deputies were not dealing with a paperwork dispute or a peaceful passerby, but an armed man who reportedly turned a public parking lot into a danger zone.

The incident is another reminder that law enforcement officers are asked to walk straight into situations most critics would flee from in a heartbeat.

When they survive those encounters, the same armchair experts often show up to second guess every second.

Castro made a deadly choice, and the deputies responded to a deadly threat.

That is not complicated, no matter how hard the professional excuse makers may try to make it.

CNN Analyst Says Fauci Made Legal Mess Worse with Fifth Amendment Stonewalling [WATCH]
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CNN Analyst Says Fauci Made Legal Mess Worse with Fifth Amendment Stonewalling [WATCH]

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Dr. Anthony Fauci walked into a Senate hearing this week facing tough questions about COVID origins, federal research funding, and pandemic accountability.

He walked out having handed Republicans a made for television moment that even a CNN legal analyst admitted may have deepened his legal trouble.

The hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee was chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, one of Fauci’s most persistent critics.

Paul and other Republicans pressed the former federal health official on National Institutes of Health funding, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and whether Americans were misled during the pandemic years.

Fauci’s response was not exactly a master class in transparency. Again and again, he invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer direct questions under oath.

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

That line reportedly came more than 100 times during a hearing that lasted nearly three hours.

For a man once treated by the corporate press as the unquestionable voice of science, the optics were brutal.

Republicans did not get many answers, but they did get something politically powerful.

They got a public record of Fauci refusing to answer while sitting before a Senate panel examining one of the most consequential government failures in modern American history.

Later on CNN’s “OutFront,” host Erin Burnett asked legal analyst Ryan Goodman whether Fauci’s strategy would actually protect him or make his situation worse.

Goodman, a professor at NYU School of Law, did not exactly deliver the answer Fauci’s fan club wanted.

“I think it makes it worse,” Goodman replied.

That admission stood out because it came on CNN, not from some conservative backbench podcast or a Rand Paul press release.

When even a legal analyst on that network is saying Fauci may have stepped in it, the old media protection racket starts looking a little less sturdy.

Goodman pointed to Joe Biden’s pardon of Fauci, which covered actions before January 2025.

According to Goodman, that pardon may have removed much of Fauci’s criminal exposure for past conduct, but it also may have weakened his ability to refuse testimony.

“It’s even a curious way in which you wonder what his legal advice was, why they decided to do that, because he does not face criminal jeopardy for the pardon, in all likelihood, he’s pardoned for all actions before January 2025.”

In plain English, the very pardon meant to shield Fauci could now create a different problem.

If he cannot be prosecuted for the covered conduct, Republicans argue he has less basis to clam up when lawmakers ask what happened during the COVID era.

“But that also means that you’re forced to testify,” Goodman continued, explaining that prosecutors often rely on immunity or pardons to compel testimony.

Goodman added that Fauci could theoretically face contempt if a Justice Department decided to pursue the matter.

That is the kind of legal twist that turns a defensive maneuver into a flashing red light.

Burnett also noted that Fauci’s explanation about avoiding perjury traps may not be persuasive to ordinary Americans.

“Then, of course, again, to the layperson, it’s the saying, well, why wouldn’t you just say the truth? What would be the problem in that?” she said.

“I understand that’s a layperson thing, but it doesn’t sound good.”

No, it does not sound good.

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Most Americans who lived through lockdowns, mandates, school closures, censorship campaigns, and endless lectures from the expert class probably have a few questions of their own.

Fauci accused Paul of trying to lure him into statements that could be used against him later.

Paul, meanwhile, has spent years challenging Fauci over federal funding connected to research in Wuhan and whether officials were honest about the possible origins of the virus.

Fauci has repeatedly denied that NIH funded research that created the virus responsible for the pandemic.

Still, the origins debate remains unresolved, with American intelligence agencies split between natural transmission and a possible lab incident.

For years, Fauci’s defenders brushed off Republican scrutiny as theater.

Yet this hearing placed his credibility back under a national spotlight, and his answer was basically the same refusal repeated until the room ran out of oxygen.

Republicans may not have gotten the testimony they wanted Wednesday.

But if Goodman is right, Fauci may have given them something else, a fresh legal argument and a very ugly public record.

The man who once told America to trust the experts now appears unwilling to answer the questions.

That is not exactly the accountability tour the public was promised.

Fauci’s Own Words Come Back to Haunt Him After Pleading the Fifth Over a Hundred Times [WATCH]
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Fauci’s Own Words Come Back to Haunt Him After Pleading the Fifth Over a Hundred Times [WATCH]

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is discovering that old television clips have a nasty habit of surviving, especially when they collide with new testimony on Capitol Hill.

His 2022 promise that he had nothing to hide is now looking like one of Washington’s more spectacular about faces.

Back then, Fauci sounded eager, almost cheerful, about the prospect of congressional scrutiny.

“I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee,” he told CNN in 2022.

He did not stop there. “I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done… I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all,” he added.

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Fast forward to Wednesday, and the former face of the federal Covid response had a very different message for the Senate.

Rather than explain and validate everything, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

Under the guidance of his attorneys, Fauci declined to answer questions from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and others on the committee.

The subjects included his role in the pandemic response and questions surrounding gain of function research.

The contrast was impossible to miss. In 2022, Fauci sounded like a man eager to clear the air, but in the hearing room, he sounded like a man whose lawyers had replaced the old media script with a much shorter one.

Fox News Digital reported that it reached out to Fauci for comment about his earlier statement.

The silence around that request only added more fuel to a story already loaded with political dynamite.

Fauci argued during the hearing that Paul has an “obvious obsession” with trying to see him prosecuted.

That is a familiar Washington move, when pressed on substance, question the motives of the person asking the questions.

He also claimed Paul’s release of more than 1,000 pages from his personal diaries was designed to “get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote.”

Fauci told the committee that he respected the legislative branch and had a long record of cooperating with Congress.

Then, following his attorneys’ advice, he invoked his constitutional right not to answer the committee’s questions.

Paul, who has led the push to scrutinize Fauci’s conduct, is not treating the Fifth Amendment pleas as the end of the matter.

He is now raising a sharp legal question tied to Fauci’s reported presidential pardon.

“The legal question is, if you’re pardoned, can you really claim the Fifth?” Paul asked during an appearance on “The Will Cain Show.”

That question matters because the Fifth Amendment is designed to protect witnesses from incriminating themselves.

Paul’s point is that if a pardon already removes criminal exposure, then the legal ground beneath Fauci’s refusal may not be as solid as his attorneys would like.

For years, Fauci enjoyed a level of media protection usually reserved for liberal icons and endangered Democratic talking points.

He was presented as the voice of science, while Americans who questioned school closures, mandates, origins theories, or federal guidance were treated like troublemakers.

Now the same man who repeatedly assured the public that he could explain everything has chosen not to answer anything.

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That is a remarkable development for someone who became one of the most powerful unelected officials in America during the pandemic.

The newly released diary materials have also intensified scrutiny of Fauci’s mindset during the crisis.

Critics say they reveal a public health official deeply aware of his celebrity status while the country was still reeling from deaths, lockdowns, and economic chaos.

Paul is seeking a vote to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former public health official refused to answer questions 111 times.

That effort sets up another major fight over accountability for the decisions made during the pandemic years.

Millions of Americans remember the closed classrooms, ruined businesses, forced masking, shifting guidance, and smug lectures from the expert class.

They were told to stop asking questions and trust the science, and now the man most associated with that command is leaning on the Fifth.

Fauci may have had plenty to say on CNN when friendly cameras were rolling.

But under oath, before a Senate committee, his famous confidence suddenly gave way to silence, and that silence is now the story.

Mamdani’s Judiciary Panel Sparks Fury After Stunning Jewish Lawyer Omission [WATCH]
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Mamdani’s Judiciary Panel Sparks Fury After Stunning Jewish Lawyer Omission [WATCH]

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has managed to find yet another controversy, which at this point is starting to look less like bad luck and more like a governing style.

The latest uproar centers on his newly announced advisory committee for judicial nominations, and critics say the panel is missing a rather obvious part of the city it is supposed to represent.

Mamdani has already drawn heavy criticism for a parade of radical statements and policy ideas.

He wrongly suggested he might have some power to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, floated a messy pied à terre tax plan, and pushed his government grocery scheme that would use taxpayer money to open stores, then use more taxpayer money to sell staples below market prices.

Now the mayor is facing questions over his 18-member Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.

The group is supposed to help advise him on judicial nominations, a task that carries real weight in a city where the courts touch everything from crime to housing to business disputes.

The problem, according to several Jewish legal organizations, is that the committee appears to include no Jewish members.

In New York City, where Jews make up roughly 10 percent of the population and are deeply represented in the legal profession, that omission did not exactly pass unnoticed.

Some estimates place Jewish lawyers at between 35 and 50 percent of the New York City legal community.

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In other words, assembling a judiciary advisory panel in New York without a single Jewish attorney, former judge, or legal professional is not just an oversight critics are willing to shrug off.

“Your recent announcement of appointees to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary has left us deeply disappointed,” read a joint letter from the leaders of the Queens Brandeis Association, Jewish Lawyers Guild, the Brooklyn Brandeis Society and the Bronx County Jewish Bar Association.

The groups did not dance around the issue. “Not a single Jewish attorney, former judge or legal professional was appointed to a committee your administration described as one that would be ‘truly reflective of New York City,’” the letter continued.

That line cuts directly at Mamdani’s preferred branding.

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The mayor and his allies love to talk about representation and inclusion, right up until the people asking to be included are inconvenient for the left wing narrative.

One rejected candidate, attorney Arthur Leventhal, reportedly said a Mamdani spokesperson claimed he was passed over because his firm had represented Ghislaine Maxwell on an appeal issue.

Leventhal noted that this is what defense attorneys do and said he hoped the lack of Jewish members was “not intentional.”

The letter from Jewish legal leaders also placed the committee dispute in a broader context.

They said the decision “follows a troubling pattern that has left many Jewish New Yorkers feeling increasingly marginalized” after Mamdani rejected the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and omitted Jewish neighborhoods from a map of immigrant enclaves in the city.

That is not a small complaint in a city already dealing with rising antisemitic incidents and growing hostility from the radical left toward Israel.

Mamdani’s own rhetoric has only added fuel to the fire, especially with his attacks on Netanyahu and his posture toward Israel.

Mamdani previously released a video calling Netanyahu a “war criminal” and saying “we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people.”

Two days later, two men were stabbed, including a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke, and the suspect allegedly yelled, “Allahu akbar.”

No responsible person should claim one political video caused one criminal attack without evidence.

Still, in a city where public rhetoric matters, leaders do not get to pretend their words float harmlessly into the air while tensions are already boiling.

The ADL also called out the situation, adding to the pressure on Mamdani.

For a mayor who promised a government reflecting New York City, leaving Jewish legal professionals off a judiciary advisory panel has become a glaring political problem.

The mayor’s defenders may try to explain it away as coincidence, process, or some bureaucratic mishap.

But many New Yorkers are looking at the full picture and seeing the same pattern again, radical politics first, everyone else later.

Mamdani’s socialist agenda was already alarming enough for taxpayers, business owners, and anyone who prefers grocery stores run by grocers instead of City Hall dreamers.

Now his judicial advisory controversy has added another question for New Yorkers, who exactly counts in this administration’s version of representation.

NYC Shops Busted for Allegedly Letting EBT Cards Buy Drugs Outside SNAP Rules [WATCH]
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NYC Shops Busted for Allegedly Letting EBT Cards Buy Drugs Outside SNAP Rules [WATCH]

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New York City store clerks are now under scrutiny after an O’Keefe Media Group investigation accused multiple shops of allowing customers to use Electronic Benefit Transfer cards to buy Kratom, a drug like herbal product that is not covered under the federal food stamp program.

According to the report, James O’Keefe and his team recorded store workers allegedly processing purchases of Kratom with cards tied to government benefits.

If accurate, it is another ugly peek inside a welfare system that taxpayers are constantly told is tightly managed.

Kratom is commonly sold in powders, capsules, and liquid extracts.

Supporters often market it as an energy booster or pain relief option, while the Mayo Clinic has warned that people who use it can place themselves at greater risk of addiction.

Federal rules are not exactly mysterious here. SNAP and EBT benefits are supposed to be limited to eligible food items, not drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or whatever questionable product a corner shop wants to slide across the counter.

OMG reported that its undercover journalists went into several stores and watched clerks allegedly attempt to process Kratom purchases by selecting “EBT Food” or “EBT cash.”

That is not a clerical typo. That is exactly the kind of loophole hunting that makes working Americans wonder who is minding the store.

The outlet also said it called the number on the back of a New York EBT card for clarification.

“A call to the number on the back of a NY EBT card produced further clarification. A representative stated that EBT cards cannot be used to purchase any drugs. However, the same representative acknowledged that once cash is withdrawn from an EBT account via an ATM or terminal, the funds can be spent without restriction,” the report stated.

That admission is the kind of bureaucratic fine print that turns reform talk into a necessity.

The card cannot be used for drugs, but once the money is pulled out as cash, the government apparently throws up its hands and wishes everyone the best.

O’Keefe confronted one clerk over the alleged transaction, and she reportedly asked him for proof.

He then produced a receipt showing the purchase had been run as “Benefit: Food.”

The report said employees denied wrongdoing when confronted.

“When confronted, store employees denied processing the transactions. One location closed its door on our undercover journalists. Our investigation notes that even the attempt to accept SNAP benefits for ineligible items constitutes a crime under New York Penal Law,” OMG stated.

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The accusations land at a time when national attention on EBT and SNAP abuse is already growing.

Americans keep hearing that fraud is rare, yet the stories keep arriving like clockwork from one state after another.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has said SNAP is full of “fraud and abuse and corruption” and needs serious reform.

She reviewed data from 29 states and reportedly found EBT cards carrying balances of more than 10,000 dollars, cards left unused for years, and benefits issued to people who did not exist.

That is not a rounding error.

That is a flashing red light for a program spending massive sums of taxpayer money every single day while politicians lecture voters about compassion and pretend accountability is somehow cruel.

Rollins has said nutrition programs at the Department of Agriculture spend about 400 million dollars in taxpayer funds each day.

When that much money is flowing through a government program, the public has every right to demand clean books, strict enforcement, and consequences for abuse.

Vice President JD Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud has also been working on efforts to address systemic SNAP problems.

The question is whether Washington will finally treat welfare fraud like a real issue instead of a public relations inconvenience.

The Kratom angle adds another layer of concern.

Police in Florida recently said two adults were arrested after the death of a toddler was attributed to her consumption of Kratom pills, a grim reminder that this is not just a harmless checkout line controversy.

If the OMG findings hold up, New York officials should not shrug and move on.

Taxpayers did not sign up to bankroll drug purchases through a program sold to the public as food assistance for needy families.

Bernie Moreno Crushes ‘Piece of Sh*t’ Fauci After Stunning Fifth Amendment Dodge [WATCH]
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Bernie Moreno Crushes ‘Piece of Sh*t’ Fauci After Stunning Fifth Amendment Dodge [WATCH]

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Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio is not backing away from his blistering criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci after the former COVID czar appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Fauci, the former NIAID director and the public face of America’s chaotic pandemic response, was called to testify under subpoena before a committee chaired by Senator Rand Paul.

For many Americans who lived through mandates, school closures, ruined businesses, and government lectures, the hearing was long overdue.

The session, titled “Testimony of Anthony Fauci,” began Wednesday morning in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

It followed Paul’s release of what has been described as Fauci’s Diary Package, a collection that raised fresh questions about Fauci’s fixation on fame while the country was staggering under the weight of the pandemic.

Moreno used his time to say what millions of Americans have been thinking for years, especially those who watched bureaucrats gain power while ordinary citizens lost livelihoods.

His confrontation with Fauci quickly became one of the most explosive moments of the hearing.

The Ohio Republican hammered Fauci over what he viewed as narcissistic conduct during a national crisis.

While families were burying loved ones and small businesses were being crushed, Fauci was treated by the corporate press like a medical celebrity instead of a government official who owed the public serious answers.

“Here I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying, who the f**k do you think you were for doing that?!” Moreno asked Fauci.

“It is a total disgrace what you did to this country, and if my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you, I hope the voters, the United States of America, watch the clips of every one of you doting on a guy who is more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people,” he added.

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That moment alone would have been enough to dominate the day, but Moreno was not finished.

After leaving the hearing, he was approached by The Gateway Pundit’s Alicia Powe, who pressed him on one of the most obvious questions hanging over the entire spectacle.

Powe wanted to know why Fauci was now refusing to answer questions after previously testifying multiple times without the same level of silence.

For a man who spent years appearing on television, issuing sweeping guidance, and scolding Americans from the safety of government authority, the sudden caution did not go unnoticed.

“Senator Bernie Moreno, why do you suspect Anthony Fauci is pleading the fifth after testifying (so many times) before?” she asked.

Moreno did not offer a polished Washington answer or hide behind committee jargon. “Because he’s a piece of sh*t,” Moreno quips.

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That blunt response instantly captured the mood of many Americans who believe Fauci has dodged accountability for too long.

The ruling class may clutch its pearls, but plenty of regular voters are far more interested in answers than in polite theater.

Fauci’s decision to rely on the Fifth Amendment during questioning is certain to fuel more scrutiny.

Democrats and their media allies may try to frame it as routine legal caution, but conservatives see something far more revealing from a man who never seemed shy when cameras were rolling and friendly hosts were tossing soft questions.

The hearing also put Democrats in an uncomfortable position, since several of them continued defending Fauci despite years of public frustration over pandemic policy.

That defense will not be easy to explain to parents, workers, churchgoers, and small business owners who remember exactly how heavy the government boot felt.

Moreno’s message was raw, direct, and impossible to miss.

Fauci may still have admirers in the permanent bureaucracy and legacy media, but in the court of public opinion, the patience of the American people has worn painfully thin.

Ted Cruz Demands Fauci Face Jail for Cowardly Fifth Amendment Dodge Over 100 Times [WATCH]
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Sen. Ted Cruz is not letting Washington’s favorite pandemic bureaucrat slip quietly into retirement sainthood.

After Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Texas Republican said it is time for contempt charges, a perjury prosecution, and jail.

Fauci served as a former White House Covid adviser and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

To millions of Americans, he became the face of lockdowns, school closures, mandates, and smug lectures from a federal class that rarely pays for its own mistakes.

“Years from now, they’ll look back and say, ‘What collective madness overtook this country?’” Cruz told Fox News Digital.

Cruz accused Fauci of treating Congress and ordinary Americans with contempt while presenting himself for years as the final authority on the virus.

“I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades,” he said.

“His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again.”

The explosive hearing came after Committee Chairman Rand Paul announced he would seek contempt charges against Fauci.

The former pandemic adviser refused to answer questions throughout the session, leaning repeatedly on the Fifth Amendment to avoid self incrimination.

The spectacle was not exactly the confident victory lap Fauci’s defenders in corporate media spent years preparing.

Instead, the man they once treated like a secular pope sat under subpoena and went silent.

“Dr. Fauci ought to think about what it says about the end of his career, that what he will be remembered for the most is pleading the Fifth more than 100 times,” Cruz said.

Then Cruz delivered the line that cut straight through the usual Washington fog.

“He’s been the most damaging bureaucrat in the history of America.”

The fight between Fauci and Senate Republicans is not new.

Cruz, Paul, and other lawmakers have pressed him for years over Covid origins, federal funding, shifting public statements, and whether the American people were fed a tidy official story while inconvenient facts were shoved under the rug.

At the center of Cruz’s argument are Fauci’s private diary entries, which Republicans say expose serious contradictions between what Fauci considered behind closed doors and what he told the public.

“In his diary, he wrote early on that it was clear that the COVID virus did not come from the wet market in Wuhan, and then he turned around and said exactly the opposite thing on national television,” Cruz said.

The released diary material reportedly showed Fauci weighing possibilities that he later downplayed in public.

One entry indicated that scientists considered a deliberately inserted laboratory origin worthy of expert review, even as public messaging nudged Americans away from that possibility.

That matters because Washington used its preferred narrative to silence debate.

If Americans questioned the wet market line or suspected a laboratory connection, the expert class told them to sit down, stop reading, and trust the people with the credentials.

Cruz also pointed to the school shutdowns, one of the most damaging chapters of the pandemic response.

He said Fauci privately claimed credit for persuading officials in New York and California to close schools, while publicly distancing himself from that disaster.

“In his diary, he brags about convincing Democrats in New York and California to shut schools down, and yet he goes on TV and says, ‘Oh, I wasn’t for shutdowns,’” Cruz said.

Fauci had repeatedly claimed in public interviews and testimony that he “did not close the schools.”

That contradiction is exactly why Senate Republicans are demanding accountability instead of another round of soft interviews, glossy profiles, and applause from the same people who cheered every restriction.

“The school shutdowns, which Fauci bragged that he was responsible for, may well be the single most destructive public policy step we’ve seen in decades. That learning loss will stick with those kids the rest of their lives when they’re 90 years old.”

“They will still be suffering the consequences of Anthony Fauci’s corrupt and dishonest shutdowns.”

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Those shutdowns left children behind academically, socially, and emotionally while teachers unions and Democratic governors treated classrooms like bargaining chips.

Parents saw the damage in real time, even as cable news experts insisted the grownups in Washington had everything under control.

A man who demanded trust from the nation for years cannot now expect the public to shrug when he refuses to answer basic questions under oath.

Paul’s contempt push now puts the Senate on the record.

Cruz is making clear that the era of polite grumbling over pandemic abuses should be replaced by real consequences for the officials who misled the country.

For conservatives, this hearing was never simply about one doctor.

It was about whether unelected bureaucrats can mislead Congress, manipulate public fear, wreck livelihoods, damage children, and then skate away because the credentialed class calls it science.

Florida vs. Fauci: AG Opens Probe After COVID ‘Expert’ Suddenly Loses His Voice Under Oath [WATCH]
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Dr. Anthony Fauci may have walked into Congress with a presidential pardon in his pocket, but that apparently did not buy him a clean getaway.

Florida is now stepping into the fight, and the Sunshine State does not seem interested in pretending the COVID years were just one big bureaucratic oops.

After Fauci appeared before Congress on Wednesday and declined to answer questions by invoking the Fifth Amendment, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office is launching an investigation. For a man long treated by the corporate press as untouchable, the moment had a very different feel.

“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media.

“My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”

That statement came after Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, faced another round of scrutiny from lawmakers.

Instead of clearing the air, he leaned on constitutional protection, which tends to raise eyebrows when the public was told for years to trust every word from the public health throne.

Former President Joe Biden gave Fauci a full and unconditional pardon on the final day of his term.

The pardon covered any offenses Fauci may have “committed or taken part in” connected to his government roles from Jan. 1, 2014, through Jan. 19, 2025.

That pardon may protect Fauci from federal prosecution, but it does not block state prosecutors from asking their own questions.

That distinction matters, especially in a state like Florida, where leaders pushed back harder than most against the lockdown regime.

The legal path may not be simple.

Fauci was a federal employee shaping national policy, which means any state criminal case would face serious hurdles before it ever reached a courtroom.

Still, Florida could explore whether pandemic restrictions created grounds for civil claims tied to damaged businesses, closed classrooms, and government decisions that crushed ordinary Americans.

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Millions of families remember very clearly who paid the price while elites issued lectures from comfortable offices.

Governor Ron DeSantis became one of the most visible opponents of lockdown policies, and Florida moved faster than many states to restore normal life.

That history gives Uthmeier’s investigation a sharper edge, because Florida was not exactly eager to bow before the public health bureaucracy.

The latest pressure on Fauci follows the release of more than 1,000 pages from his pandemic diary by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

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Paul has argued that those writings show a gap between Fauci’s private thinking and the public health decisions he promoted.

That is not a small accusation.

If Fauci privately understood one thing while publicly pushing another, Americans have every right to demand answers, especially after livelihoods, childhoods, churches, and community life were disrupted on a massive scale.

Congress has questioned Fauci before, but the diary added fresh fuel to the fire.

Lawmakers are now looking at his personal written thoughts, not just his polished testimony and media friendly sound bites.

There is also the possibility that the Senate could move to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.

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Such a finding can carry the possibility of jail time, although whether Washington has the appetite to pursue that is another question entirely.

For years, conservatives were mocked for asking basic questions about mandates, school closures, lab origins, and the power handed to public health officials.

Now the same establishment that demanded blind trust seems a little less eager to talk under oath.

Biden’s pardon looked like an attempt to slam the federal door shut before anyone could dig too deeply.

But Florida’s move shows that a presidential pardon is not the same thing as public vindication.

Fauci may not face state criminal charges in the end, and any civil route would take time.

But the larger point is already clear, the questions are not going away just because Biden tried to wrap his favorite pandemic official in legal bubble wrap.

For the Americans who lost businesses, watched their children fall behind, and were treated like villains for questioning the narrative, this investigation is long overdue.

Fauci is not out of the woods, and Florida just made sure everyone knows it.

Hero Teen Lifeguard Reveals Fierce Vow During Terrifying Ocean Rescue [WATCH]
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A rookie California lifeguard is getting national attention for the kind of raw courage that cannot be taught in a committee hearing or polished up by a public relations consultant.

Ryder Williams, a 16-year-old lifeguard in his first season with California State Parks, is being hailed after charging into dangerous surf at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz to save 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai.

The rescue unfolded Saturday as heavy crowds packed the beach and treacherous waves pounded the shoreline.

Officials said Williams had already been busy making safety contacts from Tower 2 because the water was volatile and the beach was crowded.

Then Nathaniel lost his footing in ankle deep water.

In seconds, the boy was swept into deeper surf, where powerful waves turned an ordinary beach day into a life threatening emergency.

Williams did not hesitate.

He later told his father, retired firefighter Shane Williams, exactly what was going through his mind as the ocean hammered him and the child.

“I wasn’t going to let go of that kid.”

That is not the language of a kid looking for applause.

That is the language of responsibility, duty, and courage, three words that still mean something outside the bubble of elite politics and excuse making.

“He was going to drown, and I wasn’t going to let that happen,” Williams told his father after the rescue, according to the account now drawing praise across the country.

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In his first public statement since the incident, Williams described the split second actions he took after spotting Nathaniel in trouble.

His account was calm, direct, and frankly more composed than what Americans hear from plenty of adults in positions of power.

“I radioed it in, threw my radio and sunglasses at the base of my tower as I ran toward the kid. I put my fins on my wrist, popped my buoy and entered the water to get ahold of the child,” Williams said.

Once in the water, the situation only grew more dangerous.

The waves were not simply pushing against them, they were crashing over them again and again as Williams fought to keep the child alive.

“Due to the volatility of the water, I was unable to tube up the victim,” Williams said, explaining that the boy had gone limp while the surf battered them.

Fellow lifeguard Aaron Bohnen eventually reached Williams and Nathaniel after several more waves slammed into the pair.

While bystanders tried to help, Williams yelled for them to get back to shore, a decision that likely prevented the emergency from spiraling into an even larger rescue.

That detail matters.

Real leadership is not just rushing toward danger, it is keeping everyone else from making a deadly situation worse.

After Williams and Bohnen brought Nathaniel safely back onto the beach, the young lifeguard retrieved medical equipment so the boy could be assessed.

The child was returned safely to his family, which is the only outcome that mattered to Williams.

Then came the part that says everything about this teenager. After saving a child from violent surf, Williams climbed back into his tower and finished the rest of his shift.

President Trump has praised Williams and plans to invite him to the White House to receive a high civilian honor.

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The story has struck a nerve because it is simple and powerful.

A boy was in danger, a young lifeguard saw it, and he acted without waiting for permission, applause, or a camera crew.

“I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to return the child to his family safely,” Williams said.

“This is my job and I love what I do.”

That humility is part of why the rescue has captured so much attention.

Williams is not presenting himself as a celebrity or chasing some dramatic speech, he is treating heroism as part of the job.

America could use more of that mindset. Less whining, fewer excuses, and more people willing to run toward the problem when others are frozen in place.

For Nathaniel Rai and his family, the stakes were not political or abstract.

They were personal, terrifying, and real, and a 16 year old lifeguard met the moment.

Williams may be young, but his actions showed a level of grit and responsibility that deserves every bit of the praise coming his way.

On a dangerous California beach, he made one decision, held on, and brought a child home alive.


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