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Rand Paul Boots Fauci Lawyer From Hearing as Gallery Erupts in Applause [WATCH]
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Rand Paul Boots Fauci Lawyer From Hearing as Gallery Erupts in Applause [WATCH]

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Anthony Fauci finally found himself back under congressional scrutiny Wednesday morning, and the scene delivered exactly the kind of accountability moment millions of Americans have been waiting years to see.

The former face of the federal COVID regime appeared before a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of Fauci’s most persistent and well-informed critics.

Fauci opened with a statement claiming Paul had an “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,” then promptly invoked the Fifth Amendment.

That move may have kept Fauci from answering direct questions about his record, but it did not spare him from an embarrassing spectacle.

His attorney, David Schertler, managed to become the main event after repeatedly ignoring the rules of the hearing.

Schertler had reportedly been instructed not to sit at the witness table because he was not a witness.

He did it anyway, parking himself beside Fauci as the former bureaucratic pandemic czar declined to answer questions.

The attorney then began speaking during the proceedings despite not being recognized and despite not having a microphone.

Apparently, the same crowd that lectured Americans for years about respecting institutions suddenly forgot how hearings work.

Paul was not interested in letting Schertler hijack the room.

The Kentucky Republican cut him off and reminded him that he had no right to take over the proceedings.

“You will respect these proceedings. You were told not to sit at the table. You insist on sitting at the table and we told you you would not be recognized. You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive. Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail. I can’t do that today. But I can have you escorted from the premises,” Paul told Schertler.

That should have ended it.

Instead, Schertler kept talking, giving Paul every reason to call security and have him removed from the room.

“There’s a row behind you, sir. That’s where you were told to sit … and now you’re disrupting the proceedings,” Paul said as the attorney continued his performance.

The chairman made clear that the hearing would not be turned into a Democrat friendly sideshow.

Then Paul delivered the line that captured the whole mess. “This is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered: For a lawyer not listening to the rules. That’s the way you want to be remembered, and that’s what you’re going to do.”

As security escorted Schertler out, the gallery broke into applause.

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For a public that endured lockdowns, mandates, school closures, shifting guidance, and endless sanctimony from Fauci and his allies, the reaction was not exactly hard to understand.

The moment was made even richer by the fact that Fauci was hardly abandoned.

Paul noted, with obvious dry humor, that Fauci had several other attorneys present, so nobody needed to faint over the idea that the most protected man in pandemic politics had been left alone.

Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, who was seated in the gallery, shared what she witnessed from inside the room.

Her reporting added to the sense that the hearing had become a revealing snapshot of how the Fauci orbit operates when it is not being treated like royalty.

For years, Fauci presented himself as the embodiment of science while federal power was used to crush dissent, silence questions, and shame ordinary Americans into compliance.

Parents watched their children fall behind, workers lost jobs, churches were treated like threats, and small businesses were flattened while the expert class congratulated itself.

Yet when Fauci had the chance to answer questions under oath, he chose the Fifth.

That is his legal right, of course, but Americans are also free to draw their own conclusions from a man who spent years demanding trust and then refused to provide answers.

Schertler’s removal only sharpened the contrast.

The same political machine that scolded citizens about rules and responsibility could not even follow basic hearing instructions when the spotlight turned back on them.

Paul, who has challenged Fauci for years on COVID policy, federal health power, and research questions, did not allow the hearing to become another carefully managed performance.

He enforced order, called out the antics, and gave the public a rare sight in Washington: someone actually refusing to indulge the protected class.

Fauci wanted to frame the hearing as persecution. Instead, he helped remind the country why so many Americans lost trust in the public health establishment in the first place.

The applause in the gallery said plenty.

After years of lectures from Fauci world, plenty of Americans are ready to see the lecturing class sit down, stop talking, and finally answer for what it did.

‘Who the F**k Do You Think You Are?’: Fauci Gets Torn a New One by Bernie Moreno [WATCH]
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‘Who the F**k Do You Think You Are?’: Fauci Gets Torn a New One by Bernie Moreno [WATCH]

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Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing, laying the blame for pandemic era mandates squarely at the feet of the former White House COVID czar.

Fauci, long treated by the corporate press as if he existed somewhere above ordinary accountability, sat with his attorney nearby as Moreno made clear this would not be another polite Beltway recital.

“Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you’re above reproach.

Somehow you feel like you don’t need to be treated like a normal American,” Moreno said.

The Ohio Republican then walked through the list of views that got ordinary Americans mocked, censored, fired, or treated like public health heretics during COVID.

Many of those supposedly fringe concerns now look a lot less crazy than the experts insisted at the time.

Moreno pointed to Americans branded racist for using terms tied to the virus origin in China, people who questioned the six foot rule, workers punished over vaccine mandates, and parents furious over school closures. That was not conspiracy talk to millions of families, it was lived reality.

He asked spectators in the room to stand if they had been shamed for holding those views.

Several people rose, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Moreno then pressed Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci declined, choosing instead to speak with someone behind him who appeared to be an attorney or aide.

“Look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth,” Moreno demanded.

“You can’t even look at them.”

The people who paid the price were in the room, while the man who helped shape the national COVID response would not even give them the courtesy of a glance.

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Moreno also recalled a pandemic news story about a mother and her children being arrested for not wearing masks outside while watching a football game.

He said that episode helped push him toward public service.

“When that story broke, I said to myself, ‘I cannot stand idly on the side and watch this happen,’” Moreno told Fauci.

“It was about six years ago today that I decided ‘I’m going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate.’”

Moreno then delivered the central accusation, asking in blunt terms who Fauci thought he was to help impose such sweeping decisions on Americans.

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It was a rare moment in Washington when the fury outside the marble halls actually made it into the room.

When Moreno tried to question Fauci, the doctor repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.

The report said Fauci did so roughly 1111 times during the hearing, an astonishing figure for a man who spent years speaking with supreme certainty into every available camera.

Republicans on the committee repeatedly tried to draw him out with pointed questions.

Fauci declined again and again, relying on constitutional protection despite having already received a full pardon from then Joe Biden.

Moreno also noted Fauci’s decision to hire David Schertler, a high powered lawyer who represented former Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey in the bribery case that ended with the Democrat’s conviction.

The senator needled Fauci over whether his legal situation was more serious than he wanted to admit.

At one point, Moreno asked whether Fauci would apologize to the people harmed by his actions. “Do you have the dignity to just say you’re sorry?” he asked.

Fauci again invoked the Fifth Amendment. For Americans who lost jobs, watched kids fall behind, or were treated like second class citizens for questioning the official line, that answer spoke volumes.

Committee Chairman Rand Paul of Kentucky later said the panel will vote next week on whether to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer questions. Contempt charges can carry penalties of 1 to 12 months behind bars and fines of up to $100,000.

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The hearing was not just about relitigating the pandemic.

It was about whether powerful officials who helped crush livelihoods, close classrooms, and shame dissenters will ever face real accountability, or whether Washington will simply hand them lawyers, pardons, and another round of applause from the usual media choir.

Socialist Mayor Snaps at Reporters as Seattle Shooting Questions Explode [WATCH]
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Socialist Mayor Snaps at Reporters as Seattle Shooting Questions Explode [WATCH]

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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson found herself on defense Monday after reporters pressed city officials over why the public waited hours for clear answers following a deadly mass shooting at Seattle Center.

Three people were killed and four others were wounded Sunday evening when gunfire erupted at the Bite of Seattle food festival, a major summer event that had drawn thousands near the Space Needle.

The shooting began around 6 p.m., according to officials, but the city did not hold a full press conference until shortly before 11 p.m.

That left residents, witnesses and families trying to make sense of a violent scene while official information came out at a crawl.

Seattle police posted one update about thirty minutes after the shooting, confirming that officers were investigating.

At that point, the public still did not know whether anyone was in custody or whether a suspect might still be on the loose.

Wilson did not issue her first statement until around 8:30 p.m.

By then, frustration had already spilled across social media, where Seattle residents demanded to know why city leaders were moving like a committee meeting had broken out during a public safety crisis.

On Monday, Police Chief Shon Barnes said the city had “no problem” reviewing how it handled public communication.

That was a polite way of acknowledging what everyone else could already see.

Wilson argued that officials were trying to avoid spreading bad information while still keeping the public informed.

“If we had been reporting up to the minute everything that we were hearing in the swirl that happened last night, there would have been a lot of inaccuracies out there that would have confused people and that we then would have had to correct,” Wilson said.

“We are managing this tension, and we are doing the best that we can to provide accurate information in a timely manner without increasing confusion.”

That explanation might have sounded better if the city had not already botched one major detail.

In Wilson’s initial statement, her office said two people were in custody in connection with the shooting.

Wilson later corrected that claim, saying only one person was actually in custody.

So much for the carefully managed information strategy.

Adding fuel to the fire, officials said before the Sunday night press conference that they were waiting for “dignitaries” to arrive.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Rep. Pramila Jayapal later appeared at the briefing alongside Wilson and Seattle Police Assistant Chief for Special Operations Tyrone Davis.

Asked Monday whether the public had been forced to wait while elected officials made their way to the cameras, Wilson denied that any office requested a delay.

“As soon as we coordinated with SPD and agreed that it was time to talk to the media, as soon as we knew that we were going to be doing that, I and Gov. Ferguson and Congresswoman Jayapal arrived on the scene within minutes,” Wilson said.

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That answer did not exactly calm the room.

When a city suffers a mass shooting at a packed public festival, people tend to care less about political choreography and more about whether their children are safe.

Authorities said two men, ages 19 and 44, died at the scene.

A 56 year old woman later died after being taken to Harborview Medical Center.

Four others were wounded, including a 2 year old boy. Police said they believe three people exchanged gunfire during the chaos.

One suspect was taken into custody, another suspect was killed, and officials were still searching Monday for another possible suspect.

That alone explains why timely public communication mattered so much.

For Seattle residents, the issue was never just whether officials eventually produced a corrected timeline.

The issue was whether leaders in a city already battered by crime and disorder understood the fear spreading across the festival and throughout the community in real time.

Instead, the public got limited updates, shifting information and a late night parade of officials once the microphones were ready.

In the vacuum, rumors did what rumors always do.

Critics saw the episode as another example of progressive city leadership struggling when public safety demands urgency instead of process.

Seattle has spent years under leaders more comfortable with slogans than street level reality, and residents are tired of paying the price.

Wilson and her team can promise reviews, better messaging and lessons learned.

But after bullets flew at a crowded food festival and innocent people were killed, Seattle residents were not asking for polished talking points.

They wanted answers.

They wanted them quickly.

And they wanted them before the dignitaries arrived.

Mamdani ‘Is Inciting the Bloodlust of His Marxist Revolutionary Comrades’: Miranda Devine [WATCH]
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Mamdani ‘Is Inciting the Bloodlust of His Marxist Revolutionary Comrades’: Miranda Devine [WATCH]

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New York Post columnist Miranda Devine criticized New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a Fox News appearance, arguing that a searchable database made available through the city’s website could expose residents to potential safety risks.

The discussion began as Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy described the database and questioned whether it could create security concerns.

“What that’s referring to is since this guy put a searchable database online on the city’s website,” Doocy said. “All you got to do put in an address or a name, and it’ll pop up. That’s not safe.”

Devine agreed with Doocy’s assessment, arguing that making the information easily searchable could have unintended consequences.

“That is not safe,” Devine said.

She claimed the database could encourage people with malicious intent to target homeowners.

“That is really inciting the bloodlust of his Marxist revolutionary comrades, like Hassan Piker, who has said that he wants to see red capitalist blood in the streets.”

According to Devine, the database could also attract individuals seeking to occupy properties unlawfully.

“This is inviting either professional squatters to move into these homes, or worst case, Luigi wannabes to prey on these people who have done nothing wrong other than have a New York City bolt hole as their second home, their pied a terre.”

Devine argued that the issue reflects what she sees as Mamdani’s broader political philosophy.

“You know this is this is just what Zoram Mamdani is all about,” she said.

She contended that while Mamdani presents himself as an advocate for human rights, his political agenda is different.

“He poses as this sort of principal defender of human rights,” Devine said. “That’s that’s when he’s doing his Israel bashing and his capitalist bashing.”

Devine then offered a broader criticism of Mamdani’s political ideology.

“But really, he is just a Marxist Islamist revolutionary who is bent on destruction and mayhem, and he’s driven by hatred.”

She also referenced opposition from some families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks regarding Mamdani’s attendance at Ground Zero commemorations.

“And that’s why the 911 families don’t want him at ground zero because all he’s doing is asserting his dominance,” Devine said.

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The discussion focused on the debate surrounding the searchable database, with Doocy emphasizing his concerns about public safety and Devine arguing that the policy could expose certain property owners to unnecessary risks while reflecting what she described as Mamdani’s broader political agenda.

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Raging DNC Boss Ken Martin Reportedly Hurls Phone as Democrat Cash Crisis Deepens [WATCH]
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Raging DNC Boss Ken Martin Reportedly Hurls Phone as Democrat Cash Crisis Deepens [WATCH]

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin is reportedly facing a fresh headache inside the party machine, and this one involves an alleged fit of rage, a junior staffer, and a phone flying toward a desk.

According to the New York Times, Martin angrily threw his phone at an aide’s desk earlier this month as pressure mounted over the DNC’s ugly financial picture.

The staffer reportedly complained to human resources, which then met with Martin about his conduct.

That is quite the scene from the party that never tires of lecturing the country about decency, norms, workplace culture, and emotional intelligence.

Apparently, those standards get a little more flexible when the fundraising numbers look like a political horror show.

The alleged outburst landed as Democrats stare down the coming midterms with a committee that is not exactly swimming in cash.

The DNC is leaning on a $15 million loan, described as its largest ever borrowing in an off year cycle, and it has reportedly put up its Washington, DC headquarters and other assets as collateral.

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A DNC official tried to wave away concerns in a statement to The Post.

“This is not new. The loan documents were publicly released in November, and the DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014, and many other years,” the official said.

The committee declined to comment on Martin’s alleged phone episode.

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That silence is convenient, but not exactly surprising for a party apparatus that seems to have plenty to say about Republicans and very little to say when its own house is wobbling.

Federal Election Commission records show the DNC had $16.3 million cash on hand at the end of last month.

That figure sits below the $18.5 million in debts and loans currently on its books.

The contrast with Republicans is brutal for Democrats.

The Republican National Committee ended June with $128.5 million cash on hand and no debt, according to FEC records.

That gap matters even more after the Supreme Court recently struck down limits on coordinated spending between parties and campaigns.

In plain English, parties with money can move more aggressively, and parties pawning the furniture may find the midterm map even less forgiving.

Martin has tried to talk up the DNC’s fundraising, telling nervous Democrats that the committee has posted historic numbers for a party without the White House.

He argued in a Substack post that the DNC raised $154.8 million through June 2026 from small and large donors, compared with $95.2 million over a similar period during the 2017 and 2018 cycle.

Still, happy talk only goes so far when vendors are reportedly being asked not to send bills until after the midterms.

DNC Executive Director Roger Lau pushed back on that characterization, saying, “This is nothing more than standard negotiations with vendors over contracts and payment processes.”

That sounds polished enough for a press release, but voters and donors can read numbers too.

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When a national party is juggling debt, borrowing against assets, and trying to calm internal panic, the spin starts to look thinner than a Biden campaign crowd.

Martin’s tenure has already been messy.

He took over in February 2025 after Democrats were still reeling from their 2024 defeat, when the party’s coalition looked exhausted and its message looked stale.

Almost immediately, Martin had to deal with the David Hogg problem.

The former DNC vice chairman drew backlash for meddling in Democratic primaries while holding a leadership role inside the party structure.

Then came the fight over the DNC’s autopsy of the 2024 election.

Martin initially resisted releasing it, then faced criticism after the document was made public and critics complained about errors and missing pieces.

The leaks have reportedly driven Martin into a more paranoid and frustrated posture.

In a May staff meeting after the autopsy mess, Martin reportedly snapped about leaks from inside the building and told staff, “My success is your success,” before adding, “So the weaker I am, the weaker all of you are.”

That kind of message may be intended as team building, but it lands more like a warning from a boss under siege.

For a party already struggling with donors, morale, debt, and credibility, that is not exactly the inspirational poster version of leadership.

Martin has reportedly joked in private about how long he will survive as DNC chairman.

Earlier this month, before meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both New York Democrats, he reportedly received assurances they were not preparing to force him out.

For now, Martin appears to be hanging on, but the picture is not pretty.

Democrats are heading toward a major election cycle with money problems, internal leaks, leadership drama, and now a reported phone tossing incident inside headquarters.

Republicans will gladly let the DNC keep pretending everything is fine.

If Democrats want to lecture America while borrowing against their own building and calming down angry bosses behind closed doors, that is their circus, and apparently their collateral too.

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Revealed: Mainstream Media Stars Took China-Linked Trips as Beijing Chased Friendly Coverage [WATCH]
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Revealed: Mainstream Media Stars Took China-Linked Trips as Beijing Chased Friendly Coverage [WATCH]

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Foreign agent filings are raising serious questions about how a Chinese Communist Party linked influence operation courted some of the most recognizable names in American journalism.

The records describe efforts tied to the China United States Exchange Foundation, known as CUSEF, to arrange access for reporters whose work could help shape perceptions of Beijing.

The filings do not simply describe harmless cultural exchange or some innocent sightseeing tour with noodles and polite handshakes.

They show operatives discussing how to generate “favorable coverage” and “effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public” regarding China.

CUSEF was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a former vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

That body sits inside the broader United Front ecosystem, which congressional investigators have described as a central tool for advancing Chinese Communist Party influence abroad.

The names tied to these trips and media programs read like a roll call from America’s elite press club.

The list includes current and former figures connected to The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, NPR, the Associated Press, Vox, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and more.

Among those identified were Ezra Klein, Ronald Brownstein, Marjorie Miller, Steve Clemons, David Rohde, Daniel Gross, Kathleen Deveny, Tom Omestad, Steve Chapman, Bruce Stokes, Craig Gilbert, Shikha Dalmia, Jonathan Broder, Cristi Kempf, Jon Healey and Julian Pecquet. That is not exactly a fringe blogger meetup in a hotel basement.

The concern is not merely that journalists visited China.

The concern is that a CCP linked outfit funded or organized access while its representatives talked openly in foreign agent records about cultivating coverage that would make Beijing look better to American audiences.

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Some of the later commentary fits the pattern in ways that should make readers wonder how often the press corps confuses access with independence.

Shikha Dalmia published a piece titled “China Bashing is for Losers” during the same year she traveled to China.

Bruce Stokes warned that economic “decoupling” from China would “backfire.”

Catherine Rampell criticized President Trump’s China posture in columns such as “Team Trump should be careful what it wishes for on China.”

David Rohde offered one of the most striking examples after taking part in a CUSEF organized trip.

He praised the role of the Chinese state in building business and later framed complaints from American politicians as “ideological babble.”

Rohde also argued that Americans should accept the disappearance of large scale manufacturing as a permanent fact of life.

That message sounded awfully convenient for a regime that spent decades benefiting from American factories leaving towns across the heartland while Washington elites shrugged.

Ezra Klein later defended parts of China’s early pandemic response, writing on X, “I keep hearing that China bought us some real time and our government wasted it doing nothing and downplaying the threat.”

Matthew Yglesias joked that he wanted to “give Party flunkies notes” on improving “propaganda.”

Steve Chapman repeatedly mocked Trump’s trade confrontation with Beijing.

In one post, he wrote, “China may have a bad human rights record, but you don’t have to take off your shoes for airport security.”

The network also brushed up against Biden world.

Bruce Stokes is married to Wendy Sherman, who later became deputy secretary of state in the Biden administration, while Steve Clemons enjoyed a friendly rapport with Biden during the then vice president’s 2013 trip to China.

Clemons later wrote that “Biden gets China” and spoke approvingly of “a new global order” with China as its “anchor.”

For Americans who have watched the ruling class bend over backward for Beijing while lecturing everyone else about democracy, the irony is not subtle.

The scandal here is not that every word written by these journalists was dictated from Beijing.

The scandal is that a CCP linked influence machine could fund travel, curate access, arrange meetings and then watch trusted American voices deliver narratives that often lined up neatly with Chinese interests.

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American readers were not always shown the machinery behind the curtain.

They got polished columns, expert analysis and respectable bylines, while the deeper influence game remained buried in filings that most people never see.

That is exactly how soft power works when the target is a decadent media establishment desperate for prestige, access and global approval.

Beijing did not need to buy the newsroom outright when so many of its preferred themes could arrive wearing a press credential.

RFK Jr. Exposes Fauci Diary Bombshell That Should Infuriate Every American [WATCH]
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on “The Ingraham Angle” Monday night and dropped another grenade into the long overdue reckoning over Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID years.

Kennedy, now serving as HHS secretary, said Fauci took the COVID vaccine in a highly public setting, then months later suffered what Kennedy described as a “pulmonary infarction.”

According to Kennedy, the public was never told. That is not a small detail when the same public health machine was busy scolding Americans, threatening livelihoods, and treating vaccine skepticism like a thought crime.

Kennedy told Laura Ingraham that Fauci misled the country on nearly every major pandemic fight.

“He lied about masks. He lied about the social distancing. He lied about the transmission, and he lied about natural immunity,” he said.

Then Kennedy added another charge that should raise eyebrows across the country.

“He lied about the capacity, as you just said, of the vaccine to prevent infection.”

The allegation centers on Fauci diary material released by Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who has been one of the few lawmakers willing to keep pulling on this thread while Washington would prefer everyone move along.

Paul released more than 1,100 pages of Fauci private diary entries ahead of Fauci Senate testimony.

Those pages have reopened questions about what Fauci knew, what he experienced personally, and what he decided the American people did not need to know.

Peter McCullough, writing on his Focal Points site, said internal records showed that on June 19, 2021, Fauci was dealing with an acute “pulmonary infarct” associated with a pulmonary embolism and was started on Eliquis, a blood thinner.

“Crucially, this health emergency occurred just months after his primary vaccination series,” McCullough wrote.

“Yet Fauci was not transparent with the public.”

To be clear, the diary entry itself does not state that Fauci pulmonary infarct was caused by the COVID vaccine.

Kennedy and McCullough are pointing to the timing and to the fact that pulmonary embolism and infarct were listed by federal health agencies among rare expected adverse events.

That distinction matters, but so does the larger issue.

If the man who became the face of pandemic medicine suffered a serious medical event after vaccination, while Americans were being told to shut up and comply, transparency was not optional.

Instead, the picture Kennedy paints is one of privilege for the ruling class and lectures for everyone else.

Fauci allegedly received top medical attention while millions of ordinary Americans were told their questions were dangerous.

A circulating image of a June 19, 2021 diary entry, labeled as released by Chairman Rand Paul, reportedly shows Fauci describing a pulmonary infarct found on a CT scan and a recommendation to begin anticoagulation with Eliquis.

The version posted publicly on Paul Senate website is redacted, while an unredacted image has spread widely online.

That alone guarantees more scrutiny, because Americans have seen enough redactions to know they usually hide the parts that matter most.

Kennedy said the diary entries reveal something powerful because they come from Fauci own writing.

“There’s something very dramatic, even for me, I’ve seen him (Fauci) write it in his own journal,” Kennedy said.

He described the entries as Fauci “Confessing to (you know) being wrong to lying about all this stuff.”

That is a stunning accusation, and it lands because so many pandemic era claims have aged about as well as a cloth mask in a rainstorm.

The country was told masks were science, distancing was science, school closures were science, and vaccine mandates were science.

Then the goalposts moved, the explanations changed, and the same experts demanded applause.

Fauci was not some background bureaucrat during all of this. He was the face on television, the voice from the podium, and the man treated by corporate media like a saint in a lab coat.

His guidance helped destroy small businesses, wreck children education, separate families, and keep loved ones apart in their final days.

Americans were told that questioning any of it was selfish, ignorant, or worse.

Now his own diary entries are raising fresh questions about what he disclosed and what he kept quiet.

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Those questions deserve answers under oath, not another media cleanup operation from the same crowd that spent years protecting him.

Rand Paul has been right to keep pressing.

The American people paid for the agencies, endured the mandates, suffered the consequences, and deserve the truth without another layer of bureaucratic fog.

Biden Classified Docs Story Implodes as Ghostwriter Tapes Expose Memory Mess [WATCH]
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Former President Joe Biden’s carefully protected classified documents narrative just took another hit, and this one comes with audio.

Recordings from his interviews with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, gathered during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation, have now been released to the public.

The tapes come after a long legal fight by Biden’s attorneys to keep them sealed.

After months of resistance, the Biden team dropped its lawsuit seeking to block release, and a judge accepted that dismissal Monday.

The push to obtain the material came from Mike Howell, formerly of the Heritage Foundation and now with the Oversight Project.

Howell pursued the recordings and transcripts for more than two years through public records requests, arguing voters had a right to hear what Hur relied on.

The Oversight Project then published hours of Biden’s 2016 and 2017 conversations with Zwonitzer, who helped write “Promise Me, Dad.”

The audio shows Biden pausing often, speaking slowly, and struggling to recall names, dates, and events.

That matters because Hur’s report described Biden’s conversations as “painfully slow” and said he was “struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”

The tapes appear to back up that description in uncomfortable detail.

Oversight Project Vice President of Litigation Jeff Clark told Fox News Digital, “Joe Biden didn’t want these tapes to come out. But now they have.”

He added, “There is no joy in Bidenville today.”

Clark also said, “Robert Hur’s and Merrick Garland’s decision to give Biden a free pass for keeping and disclosing classified information must now be reexamined.”

That is exactly the question hanging over this whole episode, especially after years of Democrats pretending classified document rules only apply to their political enemies.

Hur investigated Biden’s handling of classified materials from his time as vice president under Barack Obama and as a U.S. senator from Delaware.

He declined to pursue criminal charges, saying prosecutors could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden willfully retained or disclosed the material.

Hur also wrote, “Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 and in his interview with our office in 2023.”

That line was widely discussed when the report came out, but hearing the recordings gives it a sharper edge.

In one recording, Biden warned Zwonitzer while discussing a 2014 Situation Room meeting, “Some of this may be classified, so be careful.”

He then added, “I’m not sure. It isn’t marked classified, but….” That is not exactly the kind of casual aside that inspires confidence.

Another clip from April 24, 2017, shows Biden struggling to remember two economic advisers.

“I’ll think of his name,” Biden said, before adding, “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”

Zwonitzer eventually supplied the name Alan Krueger after a long pause. For a man who spent decades selling himself as the smartest foreign policy adult in the room, the moment is not flattering.

The same day, Biden appeared unable to recall where he had been on a particular date.

He later remembered attending a memorial service for a fallen service member, but the name still escaped him.

Biden also circled back to a meeting with Ron Klain, saying, “But at any rate, back to there was I had a meeting with Ron Klain, and I don’t know when.”

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The audio also captures him trying to place a lunch with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

“When he, when he came to me and I’ll get the date. Remind me when did Summers come to me to have lunch to it was when I was thinking about running.”

Later, Biden said, “Here’s what happened, before I forget. Don’t mind my train of thought. He also pledged to support me in 2016.”

The political problem for Biden and his defenders is obvious.

For years, Americans were told concerns about his mental sharpness were cheap shots, right wing noise, or edited clips, yet here are recordings from before his presidency showing the very issues critics raised.

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The public now has more than spin to review, and the Biden classified documents story looks a lot less tidy than the establishment wanted voters to believe.

McConnell Drops Another Proof of Life Photo as Senate Absence Fuels Frenzy [WATCH]
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McConnell Drops Another Proof of Life Photo as Senate Absence Fuels Frenzy [WATCH]

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Senator Mitch McConnell resurfaced Monday with a new photo meant to calm questions about his health after a 44 day absence from the Senate.

In Washington, where the ruling class often treats basic transparency like a state secret, the picture did more than answer questions.

The image showed McConnell smiling from a rehab bed alongside his wife, Elaine Chao.

It was clearly intended to project calm, even as the Kentucky Republican has been missing from the Senate during a stretch when voters deserve to know who is actually doing the job.

A statement from the Capitol’s Office of Attending Physician tried to put the matter to rest.

“Senator McConnell continues his recovery from a fall at home in June,” the statement said.

The office added more details about his rehabilitation, saying doctors have been checking on him daily.

“OAP physicians visit with the Senator every day, discussing all aspects of his rehabilitation care. Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation, including multiple sessions a day designed to rebuild strength and reduce the risk of future falls. His bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility,” the statement read.

McConnell also confirmed he will not attend this year’s Fancy Farm picnic, a major Kentucky political tradition.

For a senator who has spent decades as one of the most powerful figures in Republican politics, missing such an event only adds fuel to the conversation.

The latest photo follows an earlier “proof of life” image released this month as speculation grew around McConnell’s extended disappearance from public view.

The timing and lack of regular public updates created a vacuum, and Washington being Washington, that vacuum was quickly filled with whispers.

Last week, rumors circulated that McConnell was “brain dead” and being kept alive by machines.

The new medical statement pushed back on those claims and said he had not suffered a heart attack or stroke.

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McConnell, now 84 years old, said his hospitalization followed a fall at home.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” McConnell said.

That explanation is more detailed than what the public initially received, but it also raises the obvious question.

Why does it take weeks of rumors before voters get a fuller picture of what is happening with one of the most senior officials in the country?

The Office of the Attending Physician also noted that McConnell’s recent health challenges are not isolated.

“Senator McConnell has experienced several falls throughout the year that have been attributed to his post polio condition. He was admitted to the hospital four weeks ago after falling at home and sustaining minor injuries,” the statement said.

McConnell’s health has been a growing concern for some time, especially after prior public episodes in which he appeared to freeze while speaking to reporters.

The political class may prefer to politely look away, but voters across the country are increasingly tired of being told not to believe their own eyes.

The Senate is not a ceremonial retirement lounge.

It is where major decisions on spending, judges, national security, and the future of the country are supposed to be made by people who are present, alert, and accountable.

Republican voters have watched the old guard cling to power while grassroots conservatives ask for fresh leadership and actual transparency.

That frustration is not going away because a carefully staged photo lands online.

For now, McConnell’s team wants the public to see a recovering senator, not a sidelined power broker whose absence has become impossible to ignore.

The photo may quiet some of the wilder rumors, but it will not end the larger debate over age, accountability, and whether Washington’s permanent political class knows when it is time to step aside.

Explosive Records Expose China Blackmail Push Against the Biden Family [WATCH]
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Explosive Records Expose China Blackmail Push Against the Biden Family [WATCH]

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Donald Trump warned voters during the 2020 campaign that China knew plenty about the Biden family business machine, and that Beijing could use that knowledge as leverage over Joe Biden.

The political class sneered, the legacy press did its usual eye roll, and anyone asking obvious questions was shoved into the conspiracy corner.

Now, newly discussed records are making that old media performance look even worse.

Emmy winning investigative reporter Catherine Herridge has been digging through declassified material tied to China and its 2020 election influence operation, and what she found should have set off alarm bells across every serious newsroom in America.

Herridge told Katie Pavlich on Katie Pavlich Tonight on NewsNation that the records reference blackmail by China connected to the Biden family.

That is not a small detail, and it certainly is not the kind of thing the press can wave away with another lazy lecture about misinformation.

“I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China,” Herridge said.

“It was for President Biden’s daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family.”

That is about as direct as it gets.

The records were not some random internet rumor, and they were not buried in a dark basement guarded by a dragon, despite how hard the corporate press may pretend otherwise.

Herridge made clear that the issue was available to anyone willing to look.

“I think in the media or legacy media, there was kind of a willful blindness,” Herridge said.

“They didn’t want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours.”

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A couple of hours.

That is apparently too much effort for the same media crowd that had endless energy for Russia hysteria, anonymous leaks, and breathless panels about every anti Trump narrative that wandered through Washington.

The revelations follow Trump’s primetime address to the nation, where he highlighted newly declassified intelligence about China allegedly acquiring 220 million American voter files.

He also described how career officials inside the intelligence community worked to bury the seriousness of that operation from senior leaders, including Trump himself.

Herridge has since connected those concerns to broader questions about what was happening inside the federal bureaucracy during the 2020 campaign.

She pointed to an instant message from senior FBI counterintelligence official Nikki Floris that Herridge described as evidence of a “shadow government” inside the bureau.

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin told Herridge that in August 2020, around the same time the Chinese influence operation was being suppressed, Floris gave him and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa a defensive briefing.

Johnson believes that briefing was presented as being about Russia, but was really meant to steer the senators away from the Hunter Biden laptop and prepare the ground for calling it disinformation.

That matters because the laptop was not a minor campaign sideshow.

It contained material raising serious questions about the Biden family’s foreign dealings, including the kind of connections and money trails that responsible journalists once claimed to care about.

Instead, Americans got the usual establishment routine.

Big Tech throttled the story, media outlets dismissed it, intelligence veterans helped frame it as foreign trickery, and the same crowd now demanding trust from the public acted shocked when Americans stopped believing them.

Herridge also spoke with a senior member of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s investigations team.

According to that account, some officials inside the intelligence community believed they knew better than Trump and needed to manage what he saw.

“They had to save President Trump from his own instincts, from his own tendencies,” Herridge said.

She described a bureaucracy invested in preserving a “globalist view,” whether that meant minimizing China’s threat or labeling the Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation”.

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That is the central scandal here.

It is not only that China may have had leverage connected to the Biden family, although that alone should be enough to trigger a serious national reckoning.

The deeper problem is that people entrusted with protecting the country appear to have decided what the public was allowed to know.

They picked narratives, protected institutions, and treated voters like a nuisance to be managed.

For years, Americans were told concerns about Hunter Biden, foreign cash, and China’s possible leverage over Joe Biden were wild right wing fantasies.

The evidence keeps marching in the opposite direction, and the smug fact checkers are looking more ridiculous by the day.

Trump said Biden was compromised, and the record now gives that warning a lot more weight than the press ever admitted.

Washington owes Americans real answers about what China knew, who buried it, and how much national security was put at risk while the guardians of democracy were busy guarding Democrats.


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