Fauci Sets Fire to His Legacy

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1:42I was really surprised by what happened, which I rarely am. I did not, you know, I look, maybe maybe some of you got this right when I got it wrong, but I did not think he was going to go in and plead the fifth the whole time. There's a little bit of a legal question here. It is above my pay grade. Talk to a lawyer friend if you got one. But there is a bit of a question here because of the somewhat unprecedented or at least certainly unusual nature of Anthony Fauci's pardon. he's you know being pardoned for like these blanket crimes that you know typically speaking a pardon as most people understand it is like somebody's convicted of a crime and you pardon them for that crime that they've been convicted of but of course Tony Fauci has not been convicted of a crime but did receive a pardon and it's kind of a blanket pardon and it's for this long period of time and then there's questions people are debating like whether or not that pardon applies to this testimony also or whether it doesn't.

2:45But I guess kind of the legal question here is that like if you're being subpoenaed and you're taking the Fifth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment says that you have the right to not incriminate yourself. But if you've already received a pardon, you really can't incriminate yourself. And so if you are pleading the fifth, then it would have to be for something that you are incriminatable about. And so then it just it opens up a lot of other legal questions about what could be pursued here. But that is not my area of expertise. And it's not particularly my area of interest. I'm just more interested in kind of the moment and what it says about our country and what people can learn from it.

3:35um i first of all i'll just say that there's there is something to me as i said it feels very surreal it's six years later you know um well a little bit more than six years i guess because it started in march and we're in the summer but like six years ago today we were in the height of it and we and and it lasted for years and years and this guy was the face of it you know there's now Now, it is true, as Fauci will kind of lean on now when he says, I didn't lock anything down. Like, it is true that he was not a lockdown governor and he was not the president of the United States of America. And he OK.

4:13But he was this guy was literally and everybody we all lived through this together. Right. I'm not exaggerating when I say he was the face of the government response to the pandemic. And and more than just the face of it, he was his role was like the the person there to give the scientific rationale for the totalitarianism. Like, yes, yes, yes. There's this governor who just declared it illegal for you to have a funeral for your father. And, you know, you, American citizen, might be wondering to yourself in some faint part of your mind, like, but I thought this was the United States of America.

4:57How can the government possibly say it's illegal for me to go to work and illegal for me to have a funeral for a dad for my dad and illegal for me to have like a play date with my kids? Like how how can the government possibly say that they don't have the right? But hey, we got this guy in a white coat who's got all this science, you know, to tell you that. So like that's the role this guy played. And OK, now this thing, COVID, as I talked about a little bit on the last episode or two episodes ago, but, you know, this thing, COVID, you know, understand for me personally, and I'm not trying to just make it about me, obviously, because it was a huge thing for the country.

5:32It upended tens of millions of people's lives. It's COVID and the COVID response. And let's be clear, the response, because, you know, sometimes when you say COVID, it still makes it sound like you're talking about the virus. But what I'm talking about right now is the lockdowns and the mandates and all of that stuff. That there's really almost no other policy in my lifetime that you could compare it to where it's, it's, it upended so many people's lives, tens, if not hundreds of millions of people in the country. Um, and almost nobody escaped it unscathed completely. There's, there's almost nobody, you know, whose life wasn't at least somewhat affected by COVID in some way.

6:22Um, there's, you know, like literally you'd, have to go to people who are like really live in rural lifestyles, you know, to have been completely unaffected by it. And, and anyway, so there's a, and this guy was the face of it. Now, again, like I said, for me personally, this was also a time where I kind of made my bones in the industry and my show took off and my profile took off. And a lot of it was over this, over this issue. You know, I was, I was going on Rogan's podcast, man, at the height of COVID and we were going so hard against this. And it was a crazy time. You know, it was a crazy time.

6:58I remember literally, you got to understand for me, you know, I was just, you know, really just starting to, to bubble up a little bit in my career. And all of a sudden I'm on Rogan's podcast and Fauci and president Biden are directly responding because of the misinformation that we put out on the show. and you know anyway for me it was just it was a thing that I took a very hard stand on it was a very big issue it became like this national thing I was on a lot of the biggest shows you know about it did a lot of debates about the topic and and now six years later to see this guy this pathetic little demon come back testifying before uh uh congress or before the senate subcommittee he's been given a pardon you know it's like it's it's this this guy talked he was so as he was filling the role of um being you know the the face of selling the totalitarianism with pseudoscience bullshit justifications.

8:07I mean, he spoke with such certainty. He lectured the rest of us. He very casually told, you know, with no problem told the rest of us, we just didn't understand science. And that's why you plebs were going to have to give up Christmas for the third year in a row. That's why you couldn't have a funeral for your dad. That's why you couldn't go see your, your suicidal depressed aunt, you know, like, I mean, millions of real stories like this, that why you're like autistic son's special needs school ought to be shut down. And he's justifying it off this science and then it gets revealed that he is completely full of shit the whole time to cartoonish levels um it's now been revealed it's a slam dunk and he comes back and pleads the fifth just absolutely torches his own credibility proves all of us critics of him right and and just lets you know that he cannot answer these questions because they they really might even with an auto pen goddamn pardon, his lawyers are going, we're not comfortable with you asking, answering these questions because they might incriminate you criminally.

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10:52But the idea is that if the government's trying to prosecute you, they're trying to, if the government is trying to, this is the idea of the fifth amendment, right? If the government is trying to deprive you a citizen of your liberty, then you have certain rights before they can just take your liberty away. And one of those rights is that you have the right to not incriminate yourself, right? Okay. That's, that's very different from saying a government employee has the right to not incriminate himself when being asked questions about depriving all of the American people of their basic rights. It's pretty obvious to see what a basic perversion that is.

11:33But look, we're going to go through some of the hearing here. I don't know, you know, what else to say about this? It's infuriating to look back on it. It's also there is something cathartic about it. It was. It's crazy how in the span of really a few short years, because if you go back to, you know, I say it was six years ago, but really it was even less than that, because through in in, you know, the summer of twenty one, five years ago, Fauci had was absolutely on top. Biden was in now and he was running the vaccine mandate regime. And he was, you know what I mean? Like he was on top of his game.

12:17And then it was like a full year after that where it had started to crack. And then by a full year after that, a lot of people had woken up to the bullshit. This was only a few years ago between when he was, well, let's just play before we even get into this right here, Natalie, let's play the famous clip, which we've played before on the show. And a bunch of people have seen, let's play the, uh, Dr. Fauci, um, the, the second to last clip that I sent you there, Natalie, that Dr. Fauci on the science. This was him during his reign. This was actually him when it was starting to crack a little bit.

12:49Hold on. No, no, no, not this one. I wanted to play the, it's like the second to last clip, I think, that I had sent you in the clip. Yes, this one right here. There we go. Anybody who's looking at this carefully realizes that there's a distinct anti-science flavor to this. So if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there, so it's easy to criticize. But they're really criticizing science because I represent science. Anybody who's looking at...

13:26All right, so there you have it. This is what Fauci would say. And again, this is just a little taste. you know there's a million of these uh um there's a great you know of course uh um tom uh oh god i'm blanking on i'm sorry this is terrible but um what's his name my favorite uh twitter follow um sorry i'll look it up right here tom tom elliot i'm sorry i'm um my apologies tom elliot uh the twitter uh account is great on this and then um uh maze there's an account like M-A-Z-E, I think is the account. They're great on these. They put out these compilation videos of Fauci and you can just see all the stuff.

14:04But just to remind everybody, and this is part of the reason, a really substantial part of the reason why there's so much love and camaraderie amongst all of us who were opponents of the COVID tyranny, who were against the lockdowns and the mandates and the stupid vaccine and all of the just mass absolute delusional hysteria. Like, I mean, it's like hard. It was a moment of society losing their minds, led from the top, like with all of the people at the top trying their best to make the people crazy, like pushing this mass psychosis on the people to the point that, I mean, I remember being in it.

14:49And, you know, I had like a two-year-old at the time and being at like a playground in, in, and you know, there's parents there masking up their three-year-old. This is like in 2022, you know what I mean? Like we had all, we had been living with COVID for two years. We had all kind of figured out what it was. We had all had it and gotten over it. We had all like, and they're still like, and they'd be giving me looks like you really, you got your two-year-old here without a mask. And you're like, I'm going to put a mask my two-year-old? Like, are you insane? They're just crazy things. And it was led from the top.

15:25And okay, so this is, anyway, my point is the reason why all of us who fought against that have so much love for each other. And the reason why all of us get so angry about this shit and say things like this guy needs to be in prison and just how there has to be a huge reckoning for what happened is that it's not just that the government overnight essentially instituted totalitarianism. And they went, Hey, we're on lockdown. They actually just look, I'm, I'm like a hardcore radical libertarian. I've probably read like 40 books on libertarianism in my life, which is a weird thing to do. Granted admitted, um, not a brag, but I'm really into it.

16:04But all of these, like, like far too many conversations and debates and read books about like what exactly it means to be a free society and what the role of government ought to be. and all of these things that people who are interested in that type of thing think about a lot. But even for people who don't think about that stuff at all, most people in the United States of America just took for granted that we're a free country. That means something. The government can't just say it's illegal to go to work tomorrow. They can't just arbitrarily divide us into essential and non-essential Americans and then say the essential ones are first-class citizens with rights to work And the non-essential are second class citizens who don't have the right to work.

16:47They can't just like institute an apartheid system where like vaccinated people can go to Knicks games, but unvaccinated people are not allowed to go. OK, but they did all of that. You know, we had this idea that they weren't allowed to do it, but they did do all of that. And they did it, at least starting with the lockdowns overnight. And so they're instituting this totalitarianism. It's based off bullshit. The science is absolutely ridiculous. Not a leg to stand on. which is why even Fauci in his emails and journals is totally contradicting what he was saying publicly. Okay. But then as if that wasn't bad enough, this is what really gets us angry.

17:23I mean, the first part is pretty bad. The whole totalitarianism based on bullshit part is bad. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to downplay that part that had an effect for sure. But then on top of that, to add insult to injury, when any of us would like, just ask the most common sense questions, make the most common sense point, take apart the obvious bullshit in the narrative, which was not that challenging to do. When we would do that, this motherfucker's role was to get on TV and bash us. It's not like he was getting on there to explain the science. He was getting on there to, even in this little clip, and you could see it in those montages that I referenced before, just over and over and over again, he'd get on there to tell you immediately that all the people criticizing him hate science.

18:09And they're really just anti-scientific morons who don't know what they're talking about, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, we were calling the whole thing right the entire time. Meanwhile, if you right now were to go and put my track record versus Fauci's track record, I got probably a score of like 98 % of it right, and he got maybe 2%. I mean, it was like with every little thing. And now, of course, it's been revealed that he knew that he wasn't just getting it wrong. He was lying. And so and by the way, it doesn't have to be my record. Put Rogan's record up against him. By the way, as I know, I've brought up over the years.

18:46But I'm sorry if this happened to you, you'd probably bring it up a few times, too. But so when I was on Rogan, one of at the time, this was like the biggest thing that had ever happened to me or the biggest thing I was ever part of. But one of the episodes I was on Rogan, I'm trying to see if I can remember this exactly correctly, but it was so this is during Biden. This was during the vaccine mandates. and at one point me and him i i had said i forget the exact thing and it wasn't about me it was about what he was saying because they were flipping out obviously over the biggest media guy being totally against their narrative and heroically you know kind of bringing that information to the masses if you ask me and i said i would never give the vaccine to my kids i guess maybe i don't even know if my son had been born at that time but i said i would never give it to my kid or kids and I was like, it was still an experimental vaccine at the time.

19:39And it was very clear. I mean, this was years into COVID. It was super clear that kids just weren't at risk of the thing. Kids didn't have negative outcomes from COVID. It is almost impossible, like statistically impossible to find kids that didn't have like severe underlying health conditions who had any negative outcomes with COVID. And so I was like, why would I give them an experimental vaccine for something that's not a problem. And then Joe, being the ballsy motherfucker he is, he took it a step further. And people may not respect this, but at the time it was ballsy. He went, he goes, I'd recommend to young people, I wouldn't recommend you get the vaccine.

20:14I'd recommend just be really healthy, eat really good, get outside, you know, like be really healthy. Now, this is what Fauci responded to. This is what Biden responded to. They called us out for spreading misinformation. And now at the time, Fauci said he went on a whole thing where he He called us out for spreading misinformation. And then he said, what Joe Rogan doesn't understand is young people don't get vaccinated for them. They get vaccinated for the old people because if they get the vaccine, they can't pass the virus on. So for the record, in hindsight, Joe Rogan's advice was for young people to get really healthy.

20:53And Fauci countered with if you get the vaccine, you can't get the virus and pass it on. Joe Rogan's take aged like wine. It is undeniably great medical advice. In fact, in the United States of America in 2026, the best medical advice you could get is to be healthy and have a healthy lifestyle. And Fauci's claim was demonstrably proved wrong. Oh, by the way, and his diaries proved that he knew they were wrong when he was making them. Yeah, the diary entry when he said is from before that. So like, what can I say? just just devastating like there there actually is no question at this point anyway i want to go let's let's play here so fauci spoke for five minutes and then didn't answer a single question pled the fifth to every single question that was asked the whole rest of the thing um so yeah um you know i rob had speculated the other day if fauci was going to come in looking like a muller like a slow old man i thought there was a chance of that i did not think he was just going to plead the fifth the whole time but he didn't look like a slow old man he looked like he hasn't lost a step uh which makes you hate him even more hard hard to hate senile people um but here let's play his five minutes uh that he said this is the only thing he said besides pleading the fifth but we'll play some of the other moments um there i i gotta say i i i can't even put into words how appalled i was by this opening it's everything that is wrong with the country and the government and the ruling elite.

22:26But here he is. Here is this little weasel all these years later, having not only been proven wrong about everything that he said with certainty, not only proved wrong about everything he said with certainty while demonizing a huge percentage of the American people who stood up and pointed out that he was wrong about everything, not only being after proven wrong about everything, but now being proven to be a liar about the false public statements he was making in defense of government totalitarian policies. Here is his Fauci's statement. Well, actually, I guess we're going to hear Rand Paul's opening, Fauci's five minutes, and then into a little bit more Rand Paul, but we'll go through all of it and we'll pause where necessary.

23:08Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The accusation that the committee has denied access to the minority's records is categorically false. This is the most transparent investigation in the history of Congress. we actually created a website and we put all of the information on the website it continues to operate the reason it hasn't been accessed is no democrat ever signed up for it not one democrat we we told them the access they never asked for the access code they haven't been on the website because they have not cared about the investigation it's a practice of this committee to swear in the witness dr fauci please stand and raise your right hand do you swear that the testimony will give before this committee will be the truth the whole truth here you can skip ahead a little bit natalie i apologize yeah just at the beginning of him talking that's fine member peters members of the committee i served at the nih for over 54 years 38 of those as director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases Over that period, I proved that I believe in and respect the value of legitimate congressional oversight.

24:26In fact, I testified before and or briefed Senate and House committees well over 200 times over those 38 years. During and after the COVID pandemic, I have appeared multiple times for hearings in the Senate and the House, usually under oath, and sat for several days -long transcribed sworn interviews, answering questions about the very issues that are now the subject of this hearing. However, given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words, quote, behind bars.

25:55All right, so let's pause it. Let's pause it right here. Any reason? Let's pause it right here and really just take this apart for a second. first of all the claim comes in and i love this at the beginning where it goes like um okay first of all i've been in public service for so many years okay this is one of the worst things about the government is they create these this i've been in public service and so in some ways you're like beyond reproach, you know, you've been in public service, like as if we're somehow to believe that they're all servants to us somehow there. They've been serving you loyally for years.

26:38You know, my, uh, let's take for example, like my dentist. Okay. My dentist happens to be a really good guy. Good dentist too. Really good guy. Like the guy he's a fan of the show too. So you might hear this. So my dentist though, like he's a real good guy. He's a real good dentist. I like him a lot. He's probably, he's, I don't know, maybe 15 years older than me. He's probably been in dentistry for a good 20, 25 years. But if like, you would just never hear him going off on how he's dedicated his whole life to the service of teeth and the service of other people. And that because of that, you have to recognize what a great person he is.

27:14You know, like if someone were to talk to you like that. Like right away, you'd be like, I don't know, dude, he's, he's been a dentist for 25 years. Probably got a net worth of$4 million and he's got a beautiful summer home and a beautiful house and has made a beautiful career for himself. And like, by the way, that's not doubting that he's done service a lot more service than someone working at the NIH has like he's actually repaired people's teeth when they needed it. Like he's done a service to the community, but at the same time we go, yeah, dude, but you get paid for that service. You don't just do that out of the goodness of your heart.

27:42You're a self-interested creature and you're making your money. Okay. Fauci has a net worth of like$15 million. Let's sit here and tell me about this service that he has. He's such a servant. Well, you're just a, what? I don't know the, a ruler, but you know, you make 40 grand a year and he's worth 15 million. So I don't know. First of all, that's a bunch of bullshit. And then he's going to sit here and say, well, I've testified, I respect, you know, congressional oversight because I've testified a whole bunch of times before. Yeah. And that's what's in question when you lied before Congress, which has now been demonstrated once again by these diary entries.

28:21And so, oh, I respect the oversight of Congress. You know, it's like if I if I I went in, you know, to a court and I went to all my court appearances and then they found the murder weapon. And then I came in and said, well, you know, I've obviously demonstrated that I respect the court of law, but I'm just not doing this one. I'm sorry. OK, well, then that that kind of defeats all the previous ones. And so, you know, and then what can you say, man? What can you say about this is his claim? Listen, man, there are there are at least like five or six bombshells in the diary entries, including one entry where he writes that they did gain of function.

29:06Well, he doesn't write gain of function. He actually writes a G.O.F., but he goes, we funded G.O.F. research at the Wuhan lab. And he testified under oath before Congress that they didn't fund gain of function research. so unless he can come up with gof standing for something other than gain of function research which i guess is possible but it sure seems like that's okay that's a big one him admitting that the vaccine didn't that the vaccine waned not only against preventing infection but against serious injury from infection he knew that way before when he was saying the exact opposite and berating us for being anti-scientific like there's all types of lies that were clearly demonstrated so then he He goes, his response is, oh, Rand Paul's like totally obsessed with me.

29:54Rand Paul's just like totally obsessed with me. Well, okay. But that's like, what? You're not just like a chick in high school. You're the face of the pandemic response. That's a reasonable thing to be obsessed with. If Rand Paul is obsessed with this, like, like saying you're obsessed with the Kennedy assassination or obsessed with nine 11, or you're obsessed with the war in Iraq or something. It's like, well, yeah, we should have justice for all those things. I don't know. And it's just and then for him to say it's just to embarrass me. Well, think. OK, listen, I say all that because this is the most important part of all of that.

30:28But just think about this, guys. Think about this. When you plead the Fifth Amendment, you are saying I am exercising my right to not criminally implicate myself. You're not saying I'm exercising the right to not embarrass myself. So for him to go out here and say, Rand Paul is just trying to embarrass me, so I'm going to plead the fifth, makes absolutely no sense. That's an absurd thing to say. And for him to sit here and say, well, Rand's trying to make good on his promise that I'll end up in prison, and that's why I have to plead the fifth. Well, I'm sorry, but that does not follow. There's a real admission in there.