Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.

In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”

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    I don’t get their strategy here. The current administration is what’s causing all the food issues and measles outbreaks. Fauci has nothing to do with it.

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      They don’t care about that.

      Fauci knows things and is intelligent, made Donvict look stupid and he is the face of being told to do things that the conservative Karens didn’t want to do: lockdowns, social distancing, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated.

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      There is no strategy, only hatred directed towards people who happened to be right when they were wrong.

      It’s ego all the way down.

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      Right now Republicans have no real wins that they can campaign on, and the ones that they can are unpopular even amongst their base. They have to drum up controversy and draw the spotlights to something, and this is the best they’ve got.

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      Bring him in and rake him over the coals. Let the dems scream and holler.

      Then when legitimate criminals of the current admin are brought in they will claim that the dems got all fussy with fauci so why are they doing this now.

      Which will rally their base and strengthen their vote.

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      They have to keep their fiction up, that the 2020 election was stolen, that Fauci somehow did worse than the president, and on and on.