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No American has been more revered by the media in the

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Anthony Fauci medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Since early 2020, TV and
Dr. Fauci sits for deposition in
COVID-19 social media print profiles have deluged Fauci with endless adulation,
censorship case spurring the sale of Fauci votive candles, Fauci bobbleheads
and #trustFauci Twitter hashtags. But Wednesday, Fauci’s
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Fauci’s final press briefing agencies “ to suppress “disfavored speakers, viewpoints and Now on
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Fauci was deposed on Wednesday by Missouri Attorney
General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff
Landry. Landry labeled Fauci the “man who single-handedly wrecked the US economy based upon ‘the
science, follow the science.’” But “over the course of seven hours, we discovered that he can’t recall
practically anything dealing with his COVID response,” Landry said.

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Missouri AG Eric Schmitt said that “social media censors” when Fauci speaks.
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How many lies did Fauci tell on Wednesday? The transcript has not been released, but a few “pants on
fire” snippets have come out. After Fauci championed lockdowns to vanquish COVID, top scientists from
Oxford, Stanford and Harvard in October 2020 issued the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued
that “focused protection” for high-risk groups (such as the elderly) was vastly preferable to shutting down
society.

When asked about his role in assailing that Declaration, Fauci

declared, “I have a very busy day job running a $6 billion institute. I
don’t have time to worry about things like the Great Barrington
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Declaration.” But less than two weeks after the Declaration’s release,
Fauci emailed Deborah Birx, the White House COVID chief, “I have
come out very strongly publicly against the Great Barrington
Declaration.” Fauci did multiple media interviews castigating any
suggestion that lockdowns were unnecessary to save America.

Fauci apparently sees himself as part of a caste of politically favored Dr. Fauci sits for
scientists entitled to rule Americans’ lives. Schmitt tweeted that Fauci
deposition in COVID-19
social media censorship
declared during the deposition that “the rest of us ‘don’t have the case
ability’ to determine what’s best for ourselves.”

Fauci has consistently behaved as if federal health officials deserve

unchallengeable dictatorial powers. When a federal judge in April struck down the Biden administration
mask mandate for airplane travelers, Fauci caterwauled, “This is a CDC issue, it should not have been a
court issue.” Fauci neglected to reveal the secret provision of the Constitution that entitles political
appointees to nullify the rest of the nation’s founding document.

Fauci has had more flip-flops than a Ringling Bros. trapeze artist. In early 2020, he scoffed at the notion
that masks would prevent COVID transmission — and then jumped on the bandwagon to champion
unreliable cloth masks . In May 2021, Fauci said the vaccinated would not transmit COVID — a claim he
continued to repeat long after the evidence debunked that claim. He opposed vaccine mandates until he
endorsed them.

According to Louisiana AG Jeff Landry, Fauci “couldn’t recall practically anything dealing with his COVID response”
during the deposition.
Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

Endless flattery convinced Fauci he is sacrosanct. When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested prosecuting
Fauci for his false congressional testimony regarding his funding of the “gain of function” research in
Chinese labs that may have unleashed COVID, Fauci huffed that his critics are “really criticizing science
because I represent science. That’s dangerous.” But not as dangerous as a megalomaniacal political
appointee secretly wielding power to undermine American freedom.

Fauci declared in August that the COVID lockdowns he championed had not “irreparably damaged
anyone.” What about the 51% increase in suicide attempts by young girls during the first year of the
lockdowns? Forced isolation made far more people depressed and contributed to the 25% increase in
alcohol-related deaths in 2020 and record drug-abuse fatalities. The National Bureau of Economic
Research estimated that Americans suffered “171,000 excess non-COVID deaths during 2020 and 2021.”
Many of those fatalities were “collateral damage” from shutdowns and other COVID policies.

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Perhaps Fauci will paraphrase a quotation attributed to Stalin: “One death is a tragedy but 100,000 deaths
are just a statistic.” Despite all the sacrifices Fauci sanctified, more than 200 million Americans still
contracted COVID, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Maybe Fauci’s memory has recovered since being compelled to explain how he used his power. But we
must never forget how politicians pretended that stomping the Constitution would magically “flatten the
curve” and keep us safe. America will not fully recover from the pandemic until all the COVID lies and
abuses by officialdom have been exposed.

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.

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