Dr. Fauci is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
A report recently surfaced that Fauci’s fortune roughly doubled during the COVID pandemic, raising even more questions about his motives in advising Donald Trump.
Dr. Fauci has proven himself a liar. He insists that he never recommended shutting down the economy, even though he is on tape admitting that he made the recommendation.
After the fact, Fauci made several appearances where he defended the calls he made as an advisor during COVID.
He stated, “There were economic consequences of that. You don’t want to keep kids out of school, but you have to make a balance. … The initial decision, by anybody’s reckoning, was the right decision.
“Otherwise, we would have had overrunning of our hospital system. … And to his credit, we convinced the president, and he agreed that that’s what we were going to do.”
Fauci has been called before Congress many times since COVID, and he seems to get a bit testier with each visit.
In June 2024, Fauci was called before a House subcommittee on the origins of COVID, and he regularly pushed back against statements made by Republicans.
Fauci discussed the hearing with the media afterward. When he was asked if he helped influence the origins of the pandemic, he stated, “The accusation being circulated that I influenced these scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous.”
Fauci had also come under scrutiny for his comments about the possible evolution of other viruses into SARS-CoV-2. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) uncovered communications that suggest Fauci was discussing this off-book via his private emails, yet another charge that Fauci denied.
Fauci was regularly accused of making money off the virus through various avenues, something else Fauci denied, but a new report suggests that was not necessarily the case.
According to the new report, Fauci’s fortune just about doubled between 2019 and 2023, reaching roughly $15 million. Open the Books CEO John Hart stated, “Dr. Fauci’s assets soared during the worst of the draconian Covid lockdowns while families and small businesses struggled through school closures and lost income.
“Now it’s clear the cash kept coming during his first year of ‘retirement.’ He was rubbing elbows with groups like [America’s Health Insurance Plans] flanked by taxpayer-funded security — even as his wife remained the top bioethicist at [the National Institutes of Health].”
I would love for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to dig into this more because I believe that Fauci’s decisions were financially motivated. It’s just a theory, but my gut tells me that something was fishy about Fauci.
