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Fauci appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee—chaired by Sen. Rand Paul—where he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about COVID-19's origins. Paul had also released Fauci's pandemic-era diary entries ahead of the hearing, and Fauci used his opening statement to call Paul's focus on him "unhinged."
Anthony Fauci, an American immunologist and physician, is trending after invoking the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul about COVID-19's origins.
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