Democratic Senator Calls Fauci Hearing ‘One of the Darkest Days in Our Senate’s History’

Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Capitol Hill Wednesday marks on one of the “darkest” days in the history of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) declared.

Blumenthal ripped Republicans in the Senate for being “eager to rebrand” Fauci “as a villain.”

Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination dozens of time during his hours-long appearance Wednesday, despite having been preemptively pardoned by then-President Joe Biden last January.

The hearing, Blumenthal said, “is the culmination of a year’s long crusade that started six years ago when Dr. Fauci dared to contradict President Trump:”

I want to go back to the dark days of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the darkest days or times in our history. Hospitals were overflowing, Navy medical ships were docked in the Hudson River.

Emergency rooms were forced into unprecedented triaging during the worst week of the pandemic, which happens to have been the last week of President Trump’s first term, more than 25,000 Americans died of Covid-19.

Easy to forget those dark days. For the past 18 months the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history and today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort.

One of the darkest days in our Senate’s history.

The Trump administration has launched a baseless set of smears against vaccines that helped pull us out of that public health crisis, vaccines that are undoubtedly President Trump’s greatest accomplishment.

It has slashed funding to local public health departments that were on the front lines of the pandemic and those healthcare workers are heroes.

It has disparaged those heroes at woke or wasteful and it has used a politicized department of justice to target the researchers who helped us track and understand the novel virus.

Today’s hearing is another page in that playbook, sadly, tragically.

Dr. Fauci, you have spent five decades in public service including nearly four decades in leadership at the National Institutes of Health helping to conquer Covid-19 but also HIV, swine flu, ebola and other epidemics with real-life results saving human lives.

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