{"id":2637501,"date":"2026-07-29T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-crushes-fauci-with-a-fitting-one-liner-after-hearing-debacle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:49:23","slug":"rfk-jr-crushes-fauci-with-a-fitting-one-liner-after-hearing-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-crushes-fauci-with-a-fitting-one-liner-after-hearing-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Crushes Fauci with a Fitting One-Liner After Hearing Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-crushes-fauci-with-a-fitting-one-liner-after-hearing-debacle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2637501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses Dr.Anthony Fauci\u2019s appearance before the Senate, which was deemed disastrous and increasingly humiliating for him. Historically celebrated as a prominent figure in the American public health sphere, Fauci has been portrayed as self-promoting and fame-driven, especially highlighted through his diary entries and public profile. During the senate hearing, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympics-organizers-defend-china-with-undated-image-of-missing-tennis-star-peng-shuai\/\" title=\"Olympics Organizers Defend China with Undated Image of Missing Tennis Star Peng Shuai\">prompting widespread mockery<\/a> and criticism on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter). <\/p>\n<p>The article emphasizes that Fauci\u2019s choice to plead the Fifth indicates an attempt to hide wrongdoing, contrasting it with the legitimate right of Americans to avoid self-incrimination. It criticizes Fauci&#8217;s previous immunity from prosecution, suggesting his invocation of the Fifth was purely to shield himself from revealing the truth. The piece also mentions the loss of support and admiration he once enjoyed, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunked-bunkum-poorly-aging-highlight-reel-shows-trump-critics-mocking-lab-leak-theory\/\" title=\"\u2018Debunked Bunkum\u2019: Poorly-Aging Highlight Reel Shows Trump Critics Mocking Lab-Leak Theory\">critics mocking<\/a> his ego and questioning how long his reputation will last. the narrative frames Fauci\u2019s actions as indicative of guilt and suggests that his legacy will be tarnished by his recent conduct.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s disastrous appearance before the Senate on Wednesday just keeps getting worse \u2014 for him.<\/p>\n<p>The man who once stood at the pinnacle of the American liberal publicity machine has already been exposed by his own diary as a shameless self-promoter who gloried in his own celebrity during a pandemic that devastated his country.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he not only confirmed that view, he opened himself for even greater derision \u2014 and one of the most brutal shots came on the social media platform X from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear Diary\u2026 If I plead the Fifth, will I still be famous? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0OwHbTOMO\">pic.twitter.com\/f0OwHbTOMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/2082487060577898680?\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Diary \u2026 If I plead the Fifth, will I still be famous?\u201d Kennedy wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In a doctored photo with the post, Kennedy is to Fauci\u2019s right, holding a pair of handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>To Fauci\u2019s left is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya is holding a beagle, a reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/peek-faucis-closet-reveals-horrific-experiments-beagles-tests-left-dogs-obvious-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial vivisection procedures<\/a> on the breed sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases while Fauci was its director. (In May 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nih-closes-experimentation-labs-accused-brutally-killing-thousands-beagles-40-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News reported<\/a> that Bhattacharya had closed the NIH beagle labs.)<\/p>\n<p>And Kennedy\u2019s post nailed it, given the vainglorious nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/faucis-personal-diary-just-got-released-brutal-self-absorbed-fame-seeking-celeb-worshiping-power-mad-liar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci\u2019s diary musings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He recorded horrific death tolls, of course, but that seemed to come off in second place to his self-congratulations on his own fame \u2014 a profile in The Washington Post! A Maureen Dowd column in The New York Times! A profile in The Atlantic!<\/p>\n<p>For a man like that \u2014 with an ego like that \u2014 taking the Fifth Amendment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-docs-reveal-multiple-employees-and-contractors-were-never-prosecuted-for-child-sex-crimes\/\" title=\"CIA Docs Reveal Multiple Employees and Contractors Were Never Prosecuted for Child Sex Crimes\">avoid criminal prosecution<\/a> had to war mightily with the obvious damage taking the Fifth was going to do to his lasting legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Every American has a right to avoid self-incrimination \u2014 the Founders put that in the Fifth because they were all too aware of how the tyrants of the British monarchy had used the legal system against their own subjects.<\/p>\n<p>If Mafia dons can stay out of prison by invoking the Fifth, that\u2019s a small price to pay for innocent Americans being able to breathe freely knowing their own testimony cannot be compelled against them in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>But Fauci is in a class almost by himself. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/believe-not-faucis-pardon-going-hurt-sees-rand-paul-oath-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already got a pardon<\/a> in his pocket from the previous president. He\u2019s been immunized against prosecution for his past crimes more effectively than any American was ever immunized against the COVID-19 virus (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/diary-reveals-fauci-suffered-possible-adverse-event-months-receiving-covid-vaccine-rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probably more safely<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>When he chose on Wednesday to invoke the Fifth \u2014 reluctantly, he claimed, and only on the advice of his attorneys, of course \u2014 his only plausible intent was to avoid future crimes, such as lying under oath, because he is simply refusing to tell the truth now.<\/p>\n<p>And it shows:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb If nothing else comes of this, the revelation of the real Anthony Fauci is sure to be devastating to his delusion of grandeur. Not nearly enough bc he belongs in prison, but it\u2019s something.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diane Sullivan (@SullyMom23) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SullyMom23\/status\/2082488535874253090?\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I think he\u2019ll be famous for setting a record on how many times the 5th was invoked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandra Spears \u271d\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\ude88 (@Alexandra4Trump) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alexandra4Trump\/status\/2082531849356628219?\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember when Fauci was so adored they made a doll for him? I think some a lot of those people who bought the doll are now sticking pins in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Owlen\u2013A Sowell Man (@OwlenRose) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OwlenRose\/status\/2082489697188888651?\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The amount of people still glorifying him is astounding. It\u2019s hard to even believe it. The evidence of his own writings in front of them and it doesn\u2019t matter. Why? Because they have TDS.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Becky (@hre26423) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hre26423\/status\/2082562192516296969?\">July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taking the Fifth to avoid prosecution for the past is one thing \u2014 it\u2019s an American invoking his rights. (And if Fauci\u2019s goal was to thwart his longstanding nemesis, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rand-paul-announces-vote-hold-fauci-contempt-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probably didn\u2019t even work<\/a> at that.)<\/p>\n<p>Taking the Fifth solely to avoid telling the truth in the present is another thing entirely \u2014 it\u2019s a criminal covering up his wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the image Fauci is projecting to the American public today \u2014 critics and supporters alike.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s the image that should follow Fauci to his grave.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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