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Rand Paul On Fauci’s Move To Hide Behind Fifth Amendment Despite Biden’s ‘Extraordinarily Sweeping’ Pardon

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said he was “really disappointed” that Dr. Anthony Fauci “chose not to testify” during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, considering that the former White House COVID czar could have “come clean” and “tell the truth,” without fear, since, under Joe Biden, he was given such an “extraordinarily sweeping” pardon.

The chairman of the Senate committee, Paul told Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty Wednesday evening that he was uncertain what to expect until he opened the hearing.

“I was disappointed,” said the senator, who is also a physician. “You know, I kind of hoped that he would try to come clean, that he would tell the truth. All he had to do was tell the truth.”

Paul explained Fauci could actually have simply admitted that he “destroyed records, that he previously lied to Congress” because he was “protected by pardon.”

“So, I was really disappointed that he hid behind the Fifth Amendment,” he continued. “It doesn’t seem to make sense because he was given complete immunity for a 10-year period for any possible crime. The only other person in the history of the United States that’s gotten this kind of pardon was Hunter Biden. So, it’s an extraordinary pardon. It’s extraordinarily sweeping and without limits, and yet he chose not to testify.”

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Huh? Trump Responds to Fauci’s Refusal to Answer Questions, Says He “Respects” Biden’s Autopen Pardon

President Trump on Wednesday responded to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s refusal to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security Committee earlier, invoking his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times as Senate Republicans grilled him over the COVID pandemic and his many lies. 

Senator Rand Paul announced that the committee will vote next week to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer questions and suggested that his invocation of the Fifth Amendment was unlawful.

Trump was asked whether he thinks Fauci should be held in contempt during a press conference at the White House. Trump did not comment on whether Fauci should face repercussions for his refusal to testify.

“Well, I watched the whole thing today, but more importantly, I was a part of the whole Fauci. I inherited Fauci. He was here from the 1980s, so I had him for a period of time, and I disagreed with him on a lot,” Trump said, noting that “I would have had to close down the whole country if I listened to him.”

“I went the Federalist way, which is basically let the governors decide, and generally speaking, the Republican governors did very well. The Democrat governors did not very well,” Trump continued.

“But Fauci wanted to have nobody wearing masks, if you remember, and then everybody had to wear five masks, as many masks as you could get. I mean, made a lot of mistakes, and he wasn’t a big factor for me. He was a very big factor for Biden, and if you remember, even though we were sort of prime time in terms of that whole disaster of COVID, far people died fewer in the Trump administration than in the Biden administration.”

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Sure, Roasting Fauci Is Fun, but There’s No Do-Over for the Biden Years

As I wrote in Tuesday’s Morning Briefing, conservative Americans are once again finding out that we were right about everything they called us crazy for during the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu pandemic. Never in recorded history have “conspiracy theorists” been on a roll like the one we’re experiencing right now. I’m beginning to think that the planet might change its shape if we decide to go the Flat-Earther route. We’re that good these days.

Our current “You shoulda listened to us,” moment is courtesy of Satan’s Garden Gnome, alleged Doctor Anthony Fauci. We’ve been finding out how wrong he was for years but, thanks to his personal diary entries that we’re seeing for the first time, we have evidence of Anthony Fauci proving that Anthony Fauci is a liar. 

We also now have evidence that Fauci was far more concerned with his own perverse pandemic-fueled celebrity than with anyone’s health. His diary entries about his growing fame (infamy for those of us on this side of the aisle) read as if he were working himself into a sexual frenzy after every television appearance. Anthony Fauci most definitely had an Anthony Fauci fetish. 

Being proven right is always a good feeling, and watching Fauci being berated by Republican senators while pleading the Fifth (which Matt covered here) was entertaining for a minute or two, but it’s not sufficient payback for what we endured during the interminable slog of the pandemic. The cold, harsh reality is that it never will be. 

Yes, the public exposure of the unhinged nature of Fauci’s ego is newsworthy. And, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there is some entertainment value in watching him squirm a little. However, unless you get extraordinary satisfaction from pointing at the television and saying, “I told you so,” there’s not a lot of satisfying “there” there. 

I am not an attorney, so I will not be indulging in any legal speculation about what might happen to Fauci. From a layman’s perspective, it seems that a presidential pardon that’s backdated to the Mesozoic Era probably covers a lot. If there is some workaround that can be used to nail this vile human being, I hope it’s found soon. I don’t want to just see Fauci in an orange jumpsuit, I want to bring back town squares and pillories and put him on display for his crimes. 

That sentiment may not be brimming with Christian charity, but I think we all know that I’m rather imperfect in that regard. There’s also the fact that I only attack people with words, and I’m honest about it. I’ve never fear-mongered with lies that got elderly people sent to assisted living death beds. Once a person has a body count, he or she is deserving of some ill will. (I believe that’s Confucius.)

My reaction to these Fauci revelations is the same as last year when the lefties started admitting that Joe Biden had pudding for brains during his presidency. The validation wasn’t much of a balm for the steaming piles of misery those four years heaped upon us. OK, it wasn’t any kind of balm at all, especially given the fact that Joe Biden has never been held accountable for any of his awfulness in the half century-plus that he poisoned American politics. 

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Revenge of the Bidens?: Troubling Questions Swirl Around the Murder Prosecution of Jill Biden’s Ex-Husband

Bill Stevenson was once married to Jill Biden. “No one f**ks with a Biden,” Joe Biden said on a hot mic on October 5, 2022.

During a recent phone call, one of Bill Stevenson’s longtime friends told me, “Delaware is not a state – it’s a corporation.”

Her point was that Delaware’s political, legal, and law-enforcement establishment is unusually close-knit, with influential figures often knowing one another personally, and that longstanding relationships carry significant weight. Joe Biden spent more than fifty years at the center of that political establishment.

On the night of December 28, 2025, New Castle County police responded to the Wilmington-area home of Bill and Linda Stevenson after receiving a call from Bill shortly after 11:00 p.m. Officers found Linda Stevenson, 64, unresponsive in the living room. Despite life-saving efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

An initial autopsy reportedly found no evidence of foul play and could not even identify a cause of death. Authorities then ordered a second autopsy.

Following that second examination, a New Castle County grand jury indicted Bill Stevenson, 77, on February 2, 2026, charging him with first-degree murder. He was arrested without incident, plead not guilty, and initially held on $500,000 bail, which was quickly increased to $2 million cash bail.

To date, prosecutors have not publicly disclosed a motive, released autopsy reports, nor any evidence underlying the indictment. Stevenson, who lacked the financial resources to hire private counsel, is represented by the New Castle County Public Defender’s Office.

Bill Stevenson and the Bidens

Stevenson believes the roots of his current legal troubles stretch back more than fifty years.

In a series of media appearances beginning in 2023, most notably on Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Reports, Stevenson challenged the long-accepted public account of how Joe and Jill Biden met.

The Bidens had publicly said they were introduced on a blind date in 1975. Stevenson disputed that account, alleging that he and Jill had known Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, since 1972, when Biden was beginning his political career in Delaware.

Stevenson says he supported Biden’s first U.S. Senate campaign and contends that Joe Biden and Jill began an adulterous romantic relationship at some point while Stevenson and Jill were still married.

According to Stevenson, the oft-repeated blind-date story was created later by the Bidens to conceal the true timeline of the relationship.

Jill Biden’s Bitterness over the Divorce Settlement

In her recently released memoir, View from the East Wing, Jill Biden reflects on her marriage to Bill Stevenson and the couple’s divorce. She recalls seeking an ownership interest in Stevenson’s successful ‘Stone Balloon’ nightclub during the divorce proceedings, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Jill Biden herself. As she recounts the story, her voice becomes noticeably more emotional, even angry. In fact, Stevenson told Greg Kelly he believed his federal tax prosecution in the 1980s was due to his divorce dispute with Jill. He was prosecuted over approximately $8,200 in payroll taxes that were only one week overdue.

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New Biden Tapes Reveal Hur’s “Well-Meaning Elderly Man” Had An $8 Million Motive To Keep Classified Docs

Joe Biden kept classified material after leaving the vice presidency, knew what it was, and read it aloud to a civilian with no security clearance who was helping him write a book he was paid $8 million for. He said as much on tape, repeatedly, in 2016 and 2017. The Justice Department had those recordings and kept them from the public for two years – the same two years it was prosecuting Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents.

The recordings came out Monday night, released by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project after a FOIA fight that began in March 2024 and ran first against the Justice Department and then against Biden’s personal attorneys. Roughly three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts, drawn from the interviews Special Counsel Robert Hur obtained during his investigation into Biden’s handling of classified material. The Oversight Project says the complete set runs to about 70 hours and that further releases are coming.

Start with what is on them.

In an October 2016 session, recorded while he was still the sitting vice president, Biden tells ghostwriter Mark Lewis Zwonitzer: “I have extensive notes over this period of time… They didn’t even know I had this.“

In February 2017, a month after leaving office and living in a Virginia rental: “So this was – I, early on, in ’09 – I just found all of the classified stuff downstairs.” He then walks Zwonitzer through his 2009 argument against the Afghanistan troop surge.

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Joe Biden Told Ghostwriter He Kept Classified Docs in His Home — Years Before His 2020 Campaign

Recently released tapes of former President Joe Biden’s conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir reveal he admitted to retaining classified documents and already had notable memory issues.

The Oversight Project’s Mike Howell was the plaintiff in the case fighting for the release of the tapes, which Biden’s team has long fought against. However, the former president’s attorneys dropped their bid to prevent the release, resulting in the recordings and transcripts from his conversations with his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer for the 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad being made public.

“We now know what has been long assumed: the autopen scandal extends far back beyond just when Joe Biden ‘ran’ for president from his basement,” Oversight Project President Mike Howell said in a statement. “These tapes have so many pauses and ‘ums’ that it sounds like Biden is buffering like a dial-up Internet connection.”

In total, there are 2 hours and 45 minutes of recordings and a heavily redacted transcript of the conversations, which showcase Biden’s poor memory and feature a variety of long pauses as he struggled to remember dates, order of events, and people.

“I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f—ed up,” Biden said. “So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”

“I’ll think of his name,” Biden said in another part of the recording, adding, “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”

He also openly discussed retaining classified information, even warning Zwonitzer at one point, “Some of this may be classified so be careful with it.”

He also said, “So this was, I early on, um, in ’09 I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” In another section, Biden states, “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified …”

This connects with the investigation by special counsel Robert Hur, who led the Biden classified documents investigation. As Breitbart News reported in 2024, “Hur’s investigation, which concluded in February, found Biden ‘willfully’ retained classified documents but [Hur] declined to prosecute him, citing ‘insufficient evidence.’”

Hur characterized Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” At the time, Biden could not remember when he announced his candidacy, when he stopped serving as vice president, or when his son Beau died.

The Oversight Project noted that people should not overlook the number of redactions in the transcript, explaining that it indicates that Biden was revealing sensitive information.

“At several points in the tapes, Biden references the information he is reviewing is likely classified, which is followed by significant audio redactions for classified information,” Oversight Project said. “This was not just once or twice, these classified redactions cover significant portions of the audio files released.

“The listener shouldn’t overlook the audio redactions because those redactions are intended to cover the disclosure of classified information,” the group emphasized.

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Oversight Project Releases Recordings of Biden Interviews with Ghostwriter…”Some of This May Be Classified… So Be Careful”

Last Friday, Joe Biden gave up the fight and declined to seek further review of an appeals court ruling on the release of 70 hours of conversations with his ghostwriter.

The Oversight Project on Monday afternoon began to release recordings of Joe Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

Click here to read the full transcript of Biden’s conversations with Mark Zwonitzer.

“The tapes make clear that Biden disclosed massive amounts of classified information to his ghost writer Mark Zwonitzer,” the Oversight Project’s VP of litigation, Jeff Clark said.

“Some of this may be classified…so, be careful. I’m not sure — It’s not marked classified but,” Biden says to Mark Zwonitzer.

At another point in his conversation with Zwonitzer, Biden says, “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified.”

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Catherine Herridge Uncovers Shocking Revelations About The Biden Family

Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has uncovered records pointing to Chinese blackmail efforts targeting the Biden family – documents that sat in plain sight for the legacy media, the FBI, and the CIA, only to be met with willful blindness.

In a recent appearance discussing declassified materials related to China’s 2020 election influence operations, Herridge described finding references to blackmail by China that were prepared for inclusion in the president’s daily brief.

“I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China,” Herridge explained, adding “It was for President Biden’s daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family.”

She noted that the findings, along with broader evidence of suppressed intelligence on Chinese influence, were ignored and buried in order to protect Democratic power, stating tghat “in the media or legacy media there was kind of a willful blindness. They didn’t want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours.”

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Far-Left Activist First Circuit Judges Block Trump’s Historic Election Integrity Executive Order in 23 Blue States — Protecting Mail-In Ballot Chaos Ahead of 2026 Midterms

A Biden-appointed majority on the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Donald Trump a major setback Saturday, refusing to lift an injunction blocking key election-integrity provisions of his executive order in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

The three-judge panel denied emergency stay requests filed by the Trump administration and 12 Republican-led states, leaving in place a lower-court order that prevents the Department of Homeland Security from distributing federal citizenship lists and blocks the U.S. Postal Service from applying new mail-ballot requirements in the plaintiff states for elections held on or before November 3, 2026.

Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Julie Rikelman, both appointed to the First Circuit by Joe Biden, formed the majority.

Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Dunlap concurred in part and dissented in part, arguing that the states lacked standing to block DHS from merely providing citizenship information.

The ruling is not a final decision on the administration’s appeal. Instead, the 20-page court order denies the administration’s request to suspend the injunction while the appeal proceeds.

The administration could now seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31 to enforce existing federal law that reserves federal elections exclusively for U.S. citizens and to bring basic accountability to the chaotic, fraud-prone mail-in ballot process.

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Far-Left Activist First Circuit Judges Block Trump’s Historic Election Integrity Executive Order in 23 Blue States — Protecting Mail-In Ballot Chaos Ahead of 2026 Midterms

A Biden-appointed majority on the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Donald Trump a major setback Saturday, refusing to lift an injunction blocking key election-integrity provisions of his executive order in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

The three-judge panel denied emergency stay requests filed by the Trump administration and 12 Republican-led states, leaving in place a lower-court order that prevents the Department of Homeland Security from distributing federal citizenship lists and blocks the U.S. Postal Service from applying new mail-ballot requirements in the plaintiff states for elections held on or before November 3, 2026.

Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Julie Rikelman, both appointed to the First Circuit by Joe Biden, formed the majority.

Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Dunlap concurred in part and dissented in part, arguing that the states lacked standing to block DHS from merely providing citizenship information.

The ruling is not a final decision on the administration’s appeal. Instead, the 20-page court order denies the administration’s request to suspend the injunction while the appeal proceeds.

The administration could now seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31 to enforce existing federal law that reserves federal elections exclusively for U.S. citizens and to bring basic accountability to the chaotic, fraud-prone mail-in ballot process.

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