Sen. Rand Paul is examining Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone and says he is taking a special interest in whether it contains evidence of “deletions.” That’s significant because Fauci’s former factotum, David Morens, is awaiting trial on charges of concealing and destroying government records, allegedly on behalf of his boss, and is facing up to 51 years in prison. Not that many people know that, since only one reporter covered his arraignment in May: The Post’s own Josh Christenson. Paul may have bigger ambitions for Fauci than the criminal referral for contempt of Congress he sent off to the DOJ...
Posted on 08/10/2026 1:10:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sen. Rand Paul is examining Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone and says he is taking a special interest in whether it contains evidence of “deletions.”
That’s significant because Fauci’s former factotum, David Morens, is awaiting trial on charges of concealing and destroying government records, allegedly on behalf of his boss, and is facing up to 51 years in prison. Not that many people know that, since only one reporter covered his arraignment in May: The Post’s own Josh Christenson.
Paul may have bigger ambitions for Fauci than the criminal referral for contempt of Congress he sent off to the DOJ last week, after the former COVID czar pleaded the Fifth an excruciating 111 times in his Senate committee testimony rather than come clean with the American people about why he funded dangerous gain-of-function research in China’s Wuhan lab. If Fauci can be shown to have concealed or destroyed government records, then he could find himself sitting alongside Morens in the dock, depending on how robust his last-minute pre-emptive autopen pardon from Joe Biden proves to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
1 posted on 08/10/2026 1:10:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
And nothing will come of it.
2 posted on 08/10/2026 1:12:37 PM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
To: motor_racer
Well, FRAUDci knowingly hid an 82% abortion rate, that his jabs were causing ... so, hopefully criminal charges will be forthcoming.
3 posted on 08/10/2026 1:14:44 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
To: motor_racer
Yeah, here’s hoping but I won’t hold my breath.
But if the Florida AG causes that little gargoyle 30 seconds of anguish that’s fine with me.
4 posted on 08/10/2026 1:17:31 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
To: Jane Long
Fauci murdered Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island. He has Mary Ann's blood
dripping off his hands. Dawn Wells died of Covid around Christmastime 2020.
5 posted on 08/10/2026 1:18:26 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: nickcarraway
When I was a wide-eyed naive kid from a blue collar family I thought academics was the ultimate meritocracy, and that all you needed to do to be part of it was be good at what you do, be ethical, and offer something innovative and different.
The reality is that academics is Hollywood for people like Fauci - who has never contributed anything to science that shifted any paradigm, but nonetheless made himself into a celebrity ‘physician scientist’ by climbing the political ladder at the NIH and using taxpayer money to buy himself acceptance and favor. I have very little if any doubt that over the years his control of NIH grant money was the basis of many ‘lofty’ friendships and relationships, fine dinners, fine wine, and stature.
Unfortunately, science, at the ‘name brand’ level is full of people like him. If you are junior and have good ideas you become a target for exploitation - not a favored son or daughter who should be nurtured and supported. When those ideas have patents and potential money attached to them it is all the worse.
People like Fauci should never be exalted. Arguably no one who is entrusted with a position like his should ever be - unless they serve faithfully over a career and didn't use the position to become famous and/or wealthy. Tall order given human nature, but a goal we should set nonetheless.
To: nickcarraway
the only thing that needs to build around Fauci is a 6-foot-deep hole in the ground.
7 posted on 08/10/2026 1:26:45 PM PDT by Longdriver69
To: Longdriver69
Maybe the Vatican will entomb Fah-oooo-chi next to Dope Francis the Nitwit when he dies. Both are hammer and sickle types.
To: motor_racer
And nothing will come of it.
anyone with determined Democrat & MSM protection can get away with almost anything. That doesn't mean this isn't an excellent battleground to explore the limits of that protection. Fauci literally committed crimes against humanity - I will gladly force the other side to defend him till the cows come home.
To: ghost of nixon
I don’t think Democrats will lose any sleep over it.
“He hasn’t been convicted in a court of law. He has a pardon. That means he never did anything wrong. No matter what so-called facts you think you have. He’s innocent until he’s sitting in a prison cell. I win. You lose.”
10 posted on 08/10/2026 1:56:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
To: neverevergiveup
I always hated thinking that “nothing would come of it...” but then I realized that especially in larger organizations and anything Gov’t. paid for or related there is a “There but for” attitude.
That is to say, do not allow harm to someone who is in a position of doing what you hope or aspire.
Those are the guardrails of collective institutional corruption and evil in the course of things.
11 posted on 08/10/2026 2:04:31 PM PDT by trfree98 (Daniel 12:4... It ain't over 'til its over.)
To: nickcarraway
There’s a plausible argument that by taking the 5th, he abandoned the protection offered by his pardon.
Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a presidential pardon must be accepted to be effective, and a person has the absolute right to reject one. Crucially, the Court noted that accepting a pardon carries an imputation or admission of guilt, distinguishing it from legislative immunity.
Fauci has an absolute right to reject the pardon and claim his fifth amendment rights. But in doing so, can he remain immune to prosecution, as granted by a pardon? Or has he abandoned the pardon? That, as they say, is a Damned Good Question.
12 posted on 08/10/2026 2:25:29 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
To: nickcarraway
But what about the Biden auto pin pardon? Will that protect Fauci?
13 posted on 08/10/2026 2:35:16 PM PDT by drypowder
To: nickcarraway
Wonderful Kayfabe. All that is missing is “Gorilla Monsoon” as announcer
To: motor_racer
The GOP AG’s can make the rest of his life a litigation nightmare. That may be the best we can hope for
15 posted on 08/10/2026 3:30:16 PM PDT by gibsonguy
To: nickcarraway
Techniques when the walls are closing in to crush someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78WpRBeQU0&t=13s
From the 1935 movie The Raven (Lugosi and Karloff star):
...To seal off the others, he lowers Jean’s entire bedroom — on an elevator — into the dungeon and locks her inside IMDb.
The “walls closing in” sequence
Once Jean is trapped, Vollin turns off the phones and lowers a shutter sealing the library. He then orders Jerry and Jean into a small, hidden room, telling them they will be together “forever and ever.” Inside, the walls begin to close in, revealing it to be a shrinking room IMDb. This is a literal and psychological trap: the room’s walls are moving inward, forcing Jean and Jerry into a confined space.
In The Raven, the shrinking room serves as a final act of psychological torture, sealing the characters in a space of no escape, much like Poe’s own tales of doom.
—Wikipedia.
16 posted on 08/10/2026 3:35:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: nickcarraway
What sort of charges will/can the states bring against Fauci?
17 posted on 08/10/2026 3:42:47 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
To: nickcarraway
“David Morens, is awaiting trial on charges of concealing and destroying government records, allegedly on behalf of his boss, and is facing up to 51 years in prison.”
He committed crimes on behalf of Fauci — probably on orders from Fauci — and HE is facing prison, but Fauci is NOT? It’s been proven that Fauci (illegally) ordered his staff to solicit cash awards for him. Of COURSE Fauci is as guilty as Morens.
18 posted on 08/10/2026 3:44:35 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
To: gibsonguy
“The GOP AG’s (sic) can make the rest of his life a litigation nightmare.”
Yes. Let the left, starting with Fauci, get a glimpse of what PDJT has been subjected to for over 10 years.
19 posted on 08/10/2026 3:49:25 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
To: ghost of nixon
I just thought since Rand voted against the Republicans that he’s going to let Fauci slide but maybe not.
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