# Badlands Media Special Coverage: 7/29/26 - Fauci Pleads the Fifth in Senate COVID Origins Hearing

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-07-29T17:55:20+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-media-special-coverage-72926-fauci-pleads-the-fifth-in-senate-covid-origins-hearing/
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## Resource

Senator Rand Paul opens with a blistering, documented case against Anthony Fauci on gain of function funding, the Wuhan lab, and years of shifting public versus private statements, and from there it only gets more intense. Fauci, appearing under subpoena and armed with a sweeping presidential pardon, invokes the Fifth Amendment to nearly every question asked, including some that have nothing to do with COVID at all. Senators spar bitterly over whether this is legitimate oversight or a partisan spectacle, an attorney gets physically removed from the room, and a parade of lawmakers dig into everything from cash prizes and royalty payments to natural immunity, remdesivir, and a diary that seems to tell a very different story than his testimony ever did. It's tense, it's personal, and it's one of those hearings that will have people talking regardless of which side of the aisle they're sitting on.

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