- Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing took an even more contentious turn on Wednesday when Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno yelled an expletive at the 85-year-old scientist.
- Moreno told Fauci that the 2020 pandemic lockdown requirements had him decide to sell his businesses and run for office.
- “Here I am, sitting in front of you six years later, saying who the f--- do you think you were for doing that?” Moreno asked.
- Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, declining to answer questions at a Senate hearing on Covid-19 origins and the government's pandemic response.
- During his opening remarks at the hearing, Fauci accused Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul of harboring an "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution," reiterating his denial of Paul’s long-standing allegations.
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