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Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment mockery demands the Senate’s contempt

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America deserves answers about the feds and COVID, from the effort to determine the virus’ origin to public-health officials’ diktats on masking and lockdown — but got none of them from Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, because Dr. Anthony Fauci chose to take the Fifth for four hours, 111 times, never answering a single question even from the Democratic side.

Outrageous: The 5th Amendment grants a right not to incriminate yourself, yet Fauci is immune to criminal charges thanks to one of President Joe Biden’s blanket pardons; the only way he could’ve incriminated himself is morally.

All Fauci deigned to offer was an opening statement complaining of Sen. Rand Paul’s “obsession” with imprisoning him and whining that his “personal diary” had been released for public inspection.

Personal? He wrote the entries on a government computer while a government employee; the feds had every right to put the whole thing on the public record — especially since he has long refused to answer many questions, and many of the entries blatantly contradict his past sworn........

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