Congressional Hearing on Ethics Violations

Thank You mr. Chairman

Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth on doc

Let's try something.

What day of the week is it today?

On the advice of counsel I

Respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment

to the Constitution color tie you're wearing

On the advice of counsel I respectfully declined to answer

based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution

What color is the carpet in front of you?

On the advice of counsel I Respectfully declined to answer based

upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

Let's just get one thing straight

You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment

Because you've been pardoned as you very well know

as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more Brown versus Walker

1896 when he has been pardoned he may not stand upon his privilege

You know that your lawyers sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs.

They know it this isn't about the Constitution This isn't about the law.

This is about contempt contempt for this body and contempt for the American people

But I think I know why you're doing it.

It's because you don't want to answer questions

It's because you did all kinds of terrible things. It's

because during the pandemic you got rich, didn't you?

You got rich While people were dying Hundreds of thousands of Americans

over a million in the end and you were getting rich

and not only were you doing that you were using federal employees With taxpayer money

to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally Cash prizes totaling over a million dollars.

You did all of that during the pandemic,

didn't you?

That's a question On the advice of counsel.

I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution

You remember Greg Fulker's? Who was that?

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

Your chief of staff is the answer.

Do you remember Patricia Conrad? Who was that?

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

Uh-huh. She was your personal assistant.

And what were these individuals doing in the depth of the pandemic in November of 2020?

When millions of Americans were suffering from COVID.

What were they doing? I tell you what they're doing

Folkers was on your behalf soliciting and gathering information for a cash award.

Let's look at it. We've got his email right here, right over my shoulder.

Folkers says, I'm working on this nomination for the Dan David Award for Fauci.

We need to beef up the COVID part. Do you have language in the can that you could share that delineates how we responded in new ways to COVID?

He sends this to multiple federal employees. What was the Dan David Award? Do you remember, Doc?

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

It was a $900,000 cash award. $900,000 cash award.

And he got it because he used federal employees to get it.

And this wasn't the only award, was it, Dr. Fauci?

In fact, you applied for and received at least eight other federal cash prizes on federal time using federal employees and federal resources.

Here they are over my shoulder.

Besides the Dan David Award, you've got the Partnership for Public Service.

You've got the Adelson Prize. You've got the Smithsonian Award. You've got the National Academy of Medicines Award.

You've got the CDC Foundation. In fact, You turn your staff into a full-time application machine.

You actually wrote to people and said, do you think maybe I'd qualify?

And you got cash for all of this. And it wasn't just one or two employees, was it?

In fact, you use eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash awards. Isn't

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

Here they are right over my shoulder. Here's all of them.

The people that you use, federal employees, so that you could go and get cash money.

And the most hilarious part is that you weren't content to even dragoon them into applying for all of these cash awards.

You then had them go out to the ethics agencies and ethics watchdogs and demand that you be able to get the money.

That's right. We've got it in your emails.

Your staff and employees on federal time using federal resources,

being paid with federal dollars, are soliciting cash for you.

And then they're turning around and saying to the agency,

we don't want just an answer.

We want to get to yes, because Fauci wants the money.

He wants it. We want to get to yes, and yes takes time.

This is your chief of staff again,

using federal email to pressure the agency's own ethics people

so that you could get money, so that you could get rich.

And it violated the law,

didn't it, Dr. Fauci?

Didn't it?

It violated the law, didn't it?

Is that a question? It is a question.

You can answer. Go ahead.

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

Federal law, as you very well know,

prohibits the solicitation of cash awards or other personal benefits for federal employees.

And it certainly prohibits using your own employees to do this.

5 CFR Section 2635-205B.

It says it right there in black and white.

You cannot use federal resources,

federal dollars,

federal employees,

federal offices,

federal email, federal time to solicit cash awards.

And you did all of it, and the worst part is

thousands of people were dying while you were doing it.

You were supposed to be the nation's doctor,

and you were playing one on TV.

But this is what you were doing with your time. Isn't

that true?

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

Yeah.

Yeah, I can see why.

I can certainly see why.

You know, what I can't quite figure out is that why you were so obsessed with it,

because you're already rich. I mean, and your scheme worked here.

I mean, your net worth now is north of $12 million.

You got over a million dollars in cash awards during COVID,

during a 12-month, 24-month span during COVID.

A million bucks you knocked down in cash money using federal resources.

Now you're worth more than $12 million.

You've got a pension that in its first year paid out north of $400,000 a year.

A million people dead, you're getting rich.

A million people dead, you're using federal employees to get cash awards for you.

A million people dead, and you're here taking the fifth because you don't want to admit that what really happened in all that time was a multi-month, multi-year course of self-dealing.

Isn't that true, Dr. Fauci?

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

Yeah, well, silence is admission.

And here's the real thing at the end of the day.

It wasn't just about the money really was it It was really about a power trip

I mean through all of this you you want to be the most famous scientist in the world

you were so Focused on getting every award and every drop of cash that you could all because you wanted to be on TV

You wanted to be the Sun God of science you wanted to be the guy who was in charge of it all

you wanted to blam Bass Trump you wanted to make sure that nobody else stole your spotlight.

You wanted to be the guy

You had time to sit for in style magazine

Here's what you were doing with your time.

You could sit for in style magazine

But you can't answer questions for the American people you could sit for in style magazine

But you're here taking the fifth you could sit for in style magazine and get a million bucks in cash awards

But now the cat's got your tongue.

I bet he does I

Tell you what here's my conclusion from all of this This

was really all about you the whole time somewhere along the way you lost your way

You may have been a good public servant at one time

I don't know, but I can tell you from reading your emails now from looking what you did how you used your employees

Somewhere along the line it became all about you you became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar and you've lied to the American people and you've lied to this body and

You've disgraced your profession by doing it. You called yourself the most famous scientist in the world

You've done more to harm science than anybody in my lifetime, and I hope you'll go home and write that in your diary

Thank You mr. Chairman