Omertà
Fully pardoned Fauci took the Fifth to protect someone else
Jul 30, 2026
On June 3, 2022, the FBI arrested Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House trade adviser and economic official, at Washington’s Reagan National Airport for the high and hideous crime of ignoring a congressional subpoena from the House January 6 Committee. The FBI handcuffed him. A grand jury indicted him and a court convicted him. Trump later pardoned him.
On October 12, 2011, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena-ed Attorney General Eric Holder for Justice Department documents and communications related to Operation Fast and Furious, which gave rifles to Mexican drug cartels.
Holder ignored the subpoena. The House voted 255–67 to hold him in criminal contempt of Congress—the first time a sitting Cabinet member faced such a charge. But President Obama asserted executive privilege over the remaining documents and the Justice Department declined to prosecute Holder.
So the rule of law is Democrat presidents can go after political enemies, while protecting lawbreaking Cabinet officials from facing justice. Republican presidents face dealing with passive-aggressive Republican Congresses whose members would rather be in the minority than actually do the work of a majority Congress.
Which leads to Wednesday’s Senate committee hearing—chaired by Senator Rand Paul—into the trillion-dollar covid catastrophe caused by Tony Fauci, whom Reagan brought to Washington to find a cure for AIDS. Over the course of 40 years, Fauci built a bureaucratic empire and ingratiated himself among the politicians, celebrities and press gaggles of DC. Barbra Streisand had him on speed dial.
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