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## Video: Dr. Anthony Fauci Pleads the Fifth Amendment at Republican-Led Senate Hearing on COVID

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_Published 2026-07-29. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime infectious disease expert who helped lead the federal government's response to the COVID pandemic, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wednesday, refusing to answer questions at a Senate hearing that Republicans had hoped would expose him to potential perjury charges and discredit his handling of the nation's pandemic response._


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So help you God. But the real question is, was it dangerous? Was it a wise decision to fund this? And you haven't deviated from that. You've never admitted that it could have been a mistake funding this research in China? The American people weren't asking for a semantics debate over what is gain of function. They're asking, does common sense say this research was dangerous in Wuhan? Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with. Calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, Anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote.

Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion. Therefore, although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you. Can you explain to the committee why you chose to fund this dangerous research in China? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

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