Fauci may have given his last update from the White House press podium, but his troubles with the GOP are far from over…
The House has been flipped and GOP-led committees are lining up to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci’s feet to the fire over COVID disinformation, mandates, lockdowns, the origins of the virus, and tech collusion. Fauci sat down for a deposition with some angry Republican AGs last week.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, and their legal teams interviewed Fauci under oath as part of their Big Tech/government collusion lawsuit.
And Landry was shocked.
“I think that the public is going to be shocked as to how much Dr. Fauci can’t recall some of the most important actions and discussions that he had at the time, when the pandemic was on our shores,” Landry told Fox News Digital. “It is certainly disturbing. And calls into question, you know, his overall mental capability to remember certain key details.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci is 81 years old.
According to Fox News, Landry and Schmitt “have accused top-ranking government officials of working with Twitter, YouTube, and Meta, which owns Facebook, ‘under the guise of combating misinformation’ in order to censor viewpoints on COVID that went against the Biden administration’s position.”
Earlier this year, PowerPoint decks and information on back-channel portals were leaked, revealing that the White House had a direct line to certain social media giants when they wanted to address something they didn’t like on social platforms.
So Fauci is in the hot seat —but he may not be up to the intense scrutiny.
Landry says Fauci seemed to “not have a tremendous amount of confidence in his vaccine,” since he asked a court reporter in the room Wednesday to wear a mask after she sneezed.
“I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is a guy who just got off the podium yesterday at the White House, reminding everybody to be boosted, so that they can be vaccinated, so that they can avoid COVID,’” Landry said.
“It was remarkable to see, you know, having the young lady sit next to him for… hours, and she literally sneezed and like, he almost came out of his chair,” Landry said.
Full details of Fauci’s deposition are sealed under court order, but Landry shared his impressions.
“What I will tell you is that this is just part and parcel of a bigger legal strategy that we believe ultimately will lead to a successful court case, probably one of the most important First Amendment cases in modern times,” Landry said.
“What we have in front of us is government actors then co-opting and coercing and colluding with private corporations – under which Americans utilize these corporations, these platforms, as basically a virtual public square – and having the government censor American speech,” he said.
“This was something that was cautioned to us at the very beginning of the creation of this country. And it’s a reason that the First Amendment was placed into the Constitution,” he said.
