By: Kaelan Deese | Washington Examiner
Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times on Wednesday, a move legal experts described as strategically sound despite the politically damaging optics.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, scheduled an Aug. 5 vote on a resolution to hold the nation’s former leading expert on the COVID-19 pandemic in contempt of Congress.
“It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress,” Paul told Fauci. “There will be repercussions for your refusal to testify.”
Two legal experts told the Washington Examiner following the hearing that the preemptive pardon Fauci received from former President Joe Biden does not eliminate every potential source of criminal exposure — but that Fauci followed the safest legal strategy by appearing under subpoena but refusing to answer.
“Legally, he played it perfectly,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said. “Now politically, obviously, this is a disaster.”
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