DAVID MARCUS: Democrats love whistleblowers, unless they attack Saint Fauci

It was an astonishing show successful the Senate connected Wednesday, arsenic the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by its chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an explosive proceeding featuring a CIA whistleblower testifying connected COVID origins, and not a azygous Democrat bothered to adjacent amusement up.

Every seat connected the near of the dais sat bare arsenic high-ranking CIA authoritative James Erdman outlined the duplicity and lies, not conscionable of the authorities during COVID, but particularly of disgraced erstwhile National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, which is precisely wherefore the cowardly Democrats took the greeting off.

According to Erdman, suppression of the laboratory leak theory, present wide accepted arsenic however the COVID pandemic began, "was importantly influenced by Anthony Fauci, injecting himself into the IC [intelligence community]."

What followed was a elaborate statement of how, astatine each turn, Fauci enactment scientists successful oversight positions successful spot who not lone backed up his wet-market theory, but successful immoderate cases were arguably complicit successful the instauration of COVID and the consequent coverup.

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., pulled nary punches, saying the crushed Fauci lied was "because helium helped money the Wuhan lab. He supported and funded gain-of-function research, and past helium tried to screen it up, and past helium worked to screen it up from the American people," adding, "I anticipation he’s indicted."

CIA whistleblower James Erdman III, a elder operations officer, is sworn successful during a Senate Homeland Security Committee proceeding connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., May 13, 2026. The proceeding examined his claims that quality officials downplayed the anticipation that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

I asked Rutgers prof and molecular biologist Richard Ebright, a longtime Fauci critic, astir wherefore helium thought the existent communicative of COVID’s origins is taking truthful agelong for the nationalist to hear. His reply was troubling.

"Misfeasance and malfeasant subject administrators," Ebright told me. "Notably, [former National Institutes of Health Director] Francis Collins and Fauci, deliberately misinformed the nationalist astir the root of COVID, and galore scientists, subject journalists and wide journalists joined them successful deliberately misinforming the nationalist astir the root of COVID."

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Ebright is not immoderate conspiracy mentation podcaster. He is, successful fact, the precise benignant of world-class adept that Fauci deliberately banned from the authoritative technological speech astir COVID. Any dependable opposed to the wet-market mentation and the immiserating nationalist argumentation of lockdown was labeled a kook.

Ebright believes each of america were intentionally misled.

Dr. Anthony Fauci,  (CBS)

"All informed persons, without exception, understood by January-February 2020 that COVID apt entered humans done a research-related incident, involving reckless gain-of-function probe performed successful Wuhan and enabled by U.S. authorities backing approved by Collins and Fauci successful usurpation of U.S. authorities policies prohibiting backing for specified research."

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Given each of this, and the information that COVID impacted, successful mostly harmful ways, each azygous American citizen, it is not conscionable shocking, but utterly unacceptable that not 1 Democratic legislator could beryllium bothered to adjacent amusement up to Wednesday’s hearing.

A cynic mightiness suggest that this avoidance by Democrats owed to the information that they would person been expected to hopelessly support Fauci, who they helped to crook into a transverse betwixt a people leader and a spiritual icon, and who intelligibly was not consecutive with us.

If Fauci was conscionable honestly incorrect astir the laboratory leak theory, that would beryllium 1 happening and deserving of reputational damage. But if helium was knowingly wrong, and hiding his ain relation successful gain-of-function research, past we are successful transgression of the period territory.

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The absent Democratic senators are doing the lone happening they tin do, so the lone happening that immoderate of the huffy authoritarians who authored our COVID effect can; they are ignoring it present and pretending it didn’t happen.

Trillions of dollars lost, millions of hours of kids' acquisition lost, household members dying unsocial successful bare hospitals, and we are not adjacent being offered an "Oops," overmuch little an apology. Instead, Democrats privation america to unopen up astir it.

Sen. Josh Hawley pulled nary punches, saying the crushed Fauci lied was "because helium helped money the Wuhan lab." (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

I asked Ebright what the worst lawsuit script is if we neglect to afloat recognize what went incorrect and however to debar it successful the future. He was blunt.

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"Reckless gain-of-function probe continues, and continues to person U.S. authorities funding," helium said. "This sets the signifier for a next, perchance adjacent worse, lab-generated pandemic."

In the end, that is what each of this is truly astir and wherefore the Democratic senators who played hookey should beryllium ashamed of themselves. They would alternatively enactment America astatine sedate hazard than admit they were incorrect astir COVID.

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So agelong arsenic the Democrats stay deaf, dumb and unsighted arsenic to the ever-growing allegations and grounds of Fauci’s malfeasance, the American radical volition ne'er get the afloat story. But that doesn’t mean Republicans can’t support discovering pieces of it.

According to Hawley, determination are already capable pieces for an indictment of Fauci. And who knows what remains to beryllium discovered?

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