BREAKING: TMZ's Harvey Levin releases a viral and deeply moving defense of "amazing public servant" Dr. Fauci and calls the MAGA attacks on him "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s ever witnessed in government.
This is truly a must-read...
"I have not used TMZ's YouTube channel to vent personal feelings about issues, but I'm going to do that today," Levin said. "Watching Anthony Fauci before a congressional hearing taking the Fifth Amendment is just one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen in government in my lifetime. And this is something we need to reckon with."
"I'm going to say up front, I have problems with the way the CDC handled COVID," he continued. "I think that they did damage to children, to adults, and I don't think they did it maliciously. I think they did it because they were using their judgment and were overprotective, and I think at times overstated things, things they said they knew but really didn't. And I have personal problems with the way that COVID was handled."
"That said, Anthony Fauci, over a period of decades, has been an amazing public servant. In the 80s, I had many friends who died of AIDS, a horrible, painful death. And I had friends who lived because of Anthony Fauci, because he was willing to look at experimental drugs in a different way than they had looked at them before, and that really resulted in lives saved."
"And he has done so many other things in his career to thwart epidemics, to save lives, not just in the United States, but all over the world."
"He has been a dedicated public servant who could have made a lot more money outside of government than inside, but he stayed."
"And now we are at a point where members of Congress, and yes, you, Rand Paul, are on a witch hunt. And the best I can say for Rand Paul is that he's being really honest. I mean, he has said now, over a period of years, he wants Anthony Fauci in a jail cell. He has said it out loud. He wants him in a jail cell. That's the point of this hearing. That's why they're doing this."
"They want to take something that Anthony Fauci says and then claim it amounts to perjury, and they want to prosecute him, they want to convict him, and they want to throw him in prison. That's the point of this hearing. There is no other point of this hearing."
"There could be. I mean, there are things they could certainly ask him, but he can't answer, because if he answers, it doesn't matter what he says. You know, if you can prosecute somebody for frickin' seashells on the beach shore, then you could certainly prosecute somebody for what they say in a congressional hearing."
"And that's the climate we're in. We are in a Senator Joseph McCarthy climate, where there is such fear that people have, and legitimate fear, that they'll end up in prison for what they say, no matter what it is, if they are on the wrong side of somebody in Congress or the administration, that they have been silenced. And that's where we are right now."
"We are in Senator Joseph McCarthy territory. And the idea that you have to watch this man take the Fifth Amendment, and again, I will say that I disagree personally with some of the CDC decisions. Absolutely, I did. That said, he's a public servant who worked for us and saved lives for decades. And we are turning him into what Rand Paul wants to be, a criminal. And Rand Paul has a political agenda, and it is prevailing here."
"Watching Rand Paul order security to throw Anthony Fauci's lawyer out of that hearing was unbelievable to me."
"We are in a dark period of America," he concluded.
More public figures need to speak out like this immediately. Republicans are scapegoating Fauci because they can't handle the truth that Donald Trump was directly responsible for COVID-19 getting as bad as it did. He downplayed it from the very start, undermined experts, and spread dangerous misinformation.
Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci did everything in his power to save as many lives as possible, urging Americans to wear masks, socially distance, and treat the coronavirus like the deadly threat it was. He's an American hero.
If anyone should be hauled in front of Congress to testify about their behavior during the pandemic, it's Trump.
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Hey Josh @HawleyMO —
“No honest person pleads the Fifth” huh?
Well… Donald Trump pleaded the Fifth over 400 times.
Eric Trump 500+.
Michael Flynn.
Roger Stone.
John Eastman.
Jeffrey Clark.
Charlie Kirk.
Kelli Ward.
And dozens more in the Trump orbit have plead the Fifth.
Trump even said:
“The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Then he took it himself and called anyone who didn’t “a fool.”
The Fifth is a constitutional right, not a confession.
Attacking Fauci for taking the Fifth — after years of publicly promising to put him “behind bars” — is political theater, not principle.
You don’t get to rewrite the Constitution just because it’s convenient today.
November is coming…
ANTHONY FAUCI IS A NATIONAL HERO UNDER ATTACK BY RAND PAUL
He served seven presidents.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He received the National Medal of Science.
He spent more than 50 years trying to keep Americans alive through AIDS, Ebola, and a once-in-a-century pandemic no one had ever faced.
Now Paul, with help from RFK Jr. and the Trump orbit, is turning private scientific notes written in the fog of early 2020 into a political crime. Those notes show a scientist thinking carefully under extreme uncertainty. That is not a cover-up. That is the job.
They need someone to blame for a novel virus that tore through the world. So they go after the doctor who actually showed up and tried.
Fauci gave his career and his safety to public health.
These MAGA idiots are trying to make the next crisis harder to fight.
I’d just like to remind everyone that these types of exchanges don’t have to happen. They are not normal. We should be embarrassed and humiliated that we such an out of control lunatic as our president.