Congressional Hearing on Pandemic Profiteering

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth, huh, Doc?

Let's try something.

What day of the week is it today?

On the advice of counsel,

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

What color tie are you wearing?

On the advice of counsel,

I respectfully decline 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 decline 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 v. 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 5th amendment to the Constitution

Do you remember Greg Fulker?

Who was that?

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the 5thamendment to the Constitution

Your Chief of Staff is your answer. Do you remember Patricia Conrad?

Who was that?

On the advice of council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5thamendment 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

Fulker's 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

Folker 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 nine hundred thousand dollar 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 turned 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?

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 205 B.

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're playing one on TV.

But this is what you were doing with your time.

Isn't that True

On the advice of council 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 in your your scheme worked here.

I mean you're not worth now is north of 12 million dollars

You got over a million dollars in cash awards

during kovat during a 12 month 24 month span during kovat a million bucks You knock

down in cash money using federal resources. Now, you're worth more than 12 million dollars

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

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 his 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 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 blame Trump.

You wanted to make sure that nobody else stole your spotlight.

You wanted to be the guy.

You had time to sit for InStyle magazine.

Here's what you were doing with your time.

You could sit for InStyle magazine.

But you can't answer questions for the American people.

You could sit for InStyle magazine, but you're here taking the fifth.

You could sit for InStyle 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 at 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.