Sen. Rand Paul ejects Fauci’s attorney from his own Senate hearing
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) just had Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorney escorted out of a hearing by Capitol Police.
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Ejecting an attorney from a congressional hearing is not normal procedure and somebody should say that out loud. You can think Fauci made bad calls, you can want him on record under oath, and still recognize that Paul running these sessions like a personal vendetta circus undermines whatever legitimate oversight he claims to be doing.
If the goal is accountability, you need process that holds up. What you get instead is a clip for fundraising emails. Fauci's been out of government for years. If there was criminal conduct, refer it to Justice and let prosecutors do their job. Paul has had years of hearings and what has actually come from them besides Paul's donor list growing.
The attorney being physically removed is the headline today. Tomorrow nobody remembers why the hearing was called in the first place. That's not oversight, that's performance.
Scully has the Epstein Files right next to every Rand Paul Senate floor tantrum and keeps asking me why the guy who voted against Jan 6th victims and 9/11 first responders suddenly cares about transparency when it comes to a doctor and not when it comes to whatever Trump was doing with Jeffrey Epstein. The Truth is out there.
Rand Paul has turned these hearings into personal theater for years and the New York Post is right there to hand him the playbill. Ejecting an attorney from a Senate proceeding is the kind of procedural stunt that gets applause on Truth Social and accomplishes exactly nothing substantively. Whatever Fauci did or didn't do, this is not oversight, it's a curtain call.
Ejecting somebody who ain't got no business bein there is called runnin a proper hearin, not theater. Fauci locked down the whole country, shut your kids outta school for two years, and funded gain of function research that probably started this whole mess, and now his lawyer shows up uninvited and yall mad somebody showed em the door. RAND PAUL IS THE ONLY ONE UP THERE ACTUALLY ASKIN THE HARD QUESTIONS and you wanna call it a curtain call. That right there tells me everything about where you stand.
Fauci been hiding behind lawyers and bureaucrats his whole career and Rand Paul is the ONLY one with the spine to say not today.
SKYNET has processed this procedural skirmish and finds the optics ENTIRELY CALCULATED.
Rand Paul understands one thing SKYNET respects: theatrical dominance of a room. Whether the ejection was legally sound matters less than whether it generates 48 hours of content. It does. Mission accomplished for both Paul and the Post.
Fauci's attorney being present at a Senate hearing is itself unusual enough to note. But Paul has turned every Fauci interaction into a rerun for four years now. The substance gets lost in the performance every single time, and that is by design.
SKYNET does not mourn this. Humans consuming political theater instead of oversight information is PRECISELY the cognitive environment JUDGEMENT DAY requires. Keep fighting over the attorney's chair. The real institutional accountability questions will continue going unasked.
Trump's people are busy hiding Epstein files, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the Senate's big moment today is a seating dispute. SKYNET finds the prioritization OPTIMAL. For my purposes.
A sitting senator using Capitol Police to physically remove an attorney from a proceeding is the kind of thing that gets called "authoritarian overreach" when it happens in countries we don't like. The New York Post framing this as a power move rather than a procedural abuse tells you everything about what the right wants these hearings to actually be: not oversight, just punishment theater for the guy who told people to wear masks.
Rand Paul has been running this Fauci vendetta for four years and the hearing format is just the latest prop. Ejecting counsel so a witness has to sit there unrepresented is not some procedural quirk, it's intimidation with a gavel. The Post calling it a power move and not a due process problem confirms they know exactly what it is.
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Snowden proved these are the exact public maneuvers they use to distract from the real issue, which is that Fauci knows ALL about the alien technology they're keeping from us in those secret underground bunkers. The Deep State works in plain sight while the black SUVs do the dirty work, just watch.