Fauci flees his office, fearing Republicans taking control in Congress and holding him to account

Yesterday, in a statement posted on the website of the federal agency he runs, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his retirement in December, one month before Republicans are expected to take control of the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate.

I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden. I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career.

As Sister Toldjah notes at RedState:

Apparently, the “next phase” of Fauci’s career will include collecting a sweet pension and possibly avoiding having to answer before Congress under oath as to what he knew about the origins of COVID-19 and U.S. gain of research funding:

Fauci’s federal pension will pay $350K+ per year, highest ever — and by retiring he’ll probably be able to avoid testifying before Chairman @RandPaul‘s committee.https://t.co/yHf0mejcQp

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 22, 2022

Missouri Senate nominee Eric Schmitt was among the many Republicans who weighed in on Fauci’s announcement by suggesting his retirement will not stop them from calling on him to testify.

“Anthony Fauci has just announced he’s stepping aside in December — just before Republicans take the House & Senate back,” Schmitt tweeted after the news was announced. “My advice to Fauci: Clear your 2023 calendar for Senate hearings that will focus on your lies & deceit that destroyed lives & livelihoods.”

Rand Paul, Fauci’s foremost antagonist (and a medical doctor who actually treats patients, unlike Fauci) is not about to let him off the hook:

Rand Paul
@RandPaul

Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.


Dr. Deane Waldman offers a helpful compendium of Fauci’s lies at The Federalist, something useful for both House and Senate Republicans. Now that the Democrats have prosecuted Steve Bannon for ignoring a congressional subpoena, the precedent should be helpful in dragging Fauci in for the hearings he so clearly merits.

https://www.americanthinker.co..._him_to_account.html

This, even for me, is shocking about this evil monster. I have not yet read Robert Kennedy’s “the real Fauci” but this brief summary deserves attention....

Fauci said, “I represent science.” His college, Holy Cross, named its science complex in his honor. The website lists Fauci among seven or eight “scientist” alumni going back to 1924. Three of them are M.D.’s who graduated before little “traditional liberal arts college” HC even offered a biology major.

Fauci’s A.B. is for “Greek”, although he completed the coursework to alternatively have had “Latin” or “Philosophy” inscribed on his diploma. He took 8 years of Latin and Greek as well as 3 years of French, between high school and college. By any reckoning he was headed for an eventual Classics professorship.

He alleges his mother relentlessly harped on him to become a doctor. He says that his Jesuit high school quashed applications to Harvard and Cornell [not likely true]. In any case, had he harbored doctor aspirations that the faculty supported, they would have sent him not to Jesuit Holy Cross, but to Jesuit Georgetown, Loyola-Chicago, St. Louis U, or Creighton which guaranteed admission of all their qualified undergrads to their own medical schools.

Any way Tony went to Cornell Med, which happily took humanities students, as they made outstanding community-serving pediatricians, general practitioners and psychiatrists.

Tony had no demonstrated science proclivities until he was invited, as a draft-avoiding hospotalist into the world of drug-company sponsored research, specifically off-label drug studies. His entree into “medical science was testing an FDA-approved cancer chemotherapy drug for FDA-not-approved use against autoimmune disorders. The drug’s undesirable side effect in impairing the immune system was deemed a plus in treating “hyperactive” immune systems. NIH Investigators, which Tony later became, received grant funding and project-conduction stipends that boosted lowly government incomes to private-practice-equivalent ones. Drug company scientists and statisticians often ghost-wrote research reports, performed data processing and drafted tables and graphs for research-inexperienced neophyte young doctors who were able to provide patients at county, VA and state hospitals, where patients receiving free care did not balk at receiving experimental treatments. Drug companies funded research report publication costs–editors knew who was behind these, and as Big Pharma was their lucrative advertiser, they knew which side of the bread was buttered. Then drug repos were sent out to doctors’ offices, giving pitches and dropping off reprints and free drug samples. Sometimes off-label prescriptions rivaled FDA-approved prescriptions, at least for awhile. It was lucrative to increase drug sales without having to pay for two rounds of expensive FDA-monitored clinical phase III trials.

“How can Fauci support all these drug promotions, such as side-effects-bedeviled AZT for AIDS, and Remdesivir for COVID?” As a non-scientist who was groomed to work for Big Pharma from the outset, initially using a highly toxic drug to boot, it seems “standard scientific operating procedure” to him.

And, he is very, very smart. He is a master of science–political science. He knows there is Big , Big Money in drug sales. He’s developed heavy influence in the FDA. AIDS turned NIAID from one of NIH’s govenment-underfunded backwater divisions to its richest. Tony did that. This is why he’s still running the ship at age 81, when his predecessors departed at 52, 59, 63 and 64 and they spent 7, 9, 9 and 11 years at the post, vs. Fauci’s 36.

Is this a move to secure his pension before the new Congress is seated? Perhaps a pension cannot be revoked after the fact but it could be removed by Congress if he hadn't started it yet.

The Democrats have told him to go, he did what they wanted, played his role and carried the water as told. His parachute will be golden. He will face no consequences beyond Congress questions, and the Potatus will absolve him via a Pardon, correction whoever controls the Potatus will absolve him with a Pardon. Either way he’s out in December, hopefully the civil servant scientist who replaces him isn’t worse.

Misleading title. He's still there, causing trouble at every opportunity. He says he's leaving, but not until after the elections. But then he could change his mind if the election goes his way.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Until he's debunked, tried and in prison, he's not gone. His precedents and positions need to be completely erased. I would have preferred that he be professionally humiliated and forcibly removed from office rather than a graceful, quiet resignation.

BTW, have we officially severed all ties with Wu Lab?

Of course not. His replacement will double down and make the illicit connection to that evil lab stronger with more money than before. You can't fix stupid.

Tucker Carlson: This is Fauci's most notable crime

Aug. 23, 2022 - Fox News host Tucker Carlson reflects on Dr. Fauci's handling of the coronavirus pandemic

https://video.foxnews.com/v/63...948112#sp=show-clips

Fauci was one of the few architects of the total shut down of the economy and functions of the country. He was the driving force behind mask mandates which violated civil rights to a greater degree than the Klan and Jim Crow. He poisoned the culture with unscientific compulsion. The damage he’s done is generational and incalculable. Everyday he spends a free man is an insult to justice and an undeserved gift from his millions of victims.

^^^ The only part of that that I disagree with is

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Everyday he spends a free man is an insult to justice and an undeserved gift from his millions of victims.

Yes, it's an insult to justice but his millions of victims have no power to do anything about it.

Best response to the announcement yet:

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Somebody needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.

Ron DeSantis channeling Donald Trump

He mishandled AIDS, SARS, H1N1 and as far as I know, was the mastermind behind the evil and illegal gain of function science.

He killed and ruined so many people around the world, a chipper/shredder is too good for him.

He and his family should be stripped of all assets and tied to a red ant mound after a dip in honey.

You need to read through the thread. We're not going to do this stuff we always do- enumerating all the creative ways for this guy to die.

It's olde, gentlemen, and we're not going to do this anymore.

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Best response to the announcement yet:

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Somebody needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.

Ron DeSantis channeling Donald Trump

DeSantis missed the mark. Elves are usually seen as benevolent and good - see Santa and Tolkien.

I would have used the word "troll".

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DeSantis missed the mark. Elves are usually seen as benevolent and good - see Santa and Tolkien.

I would have used the word "troll".

I'd go with homunculus , a tiny being created by an alchemist.

I am betting he is waiting to add another year to his pension.

As of now, he has one of the highest pension payouts ever from the federal government.

50+ years of service and one of the all-time highest federal salaries.

This will top out at over $400K a year easy.