{"id":643895,"date":"2026-07-30T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643895"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:01:11","slug":"desantis-says-dont-hold-your-breath-waiting-for-fauci-accountability-i-hope-im-wrong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=643895","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis says \u2018don\u2019t hold your breath\u2019 waiting for Fauci accountability: \u2018I hope I\u2019m wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like many Americans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn\u2019t holding out much hope that Anthony Fauci will receive any real consequences for misleading Americans during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

DeSantis joined The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a heated Senate hearing.<\/p>\n

Republican Senator Rand Paul, who chaired the hearing, warned Fauci that he was headed toward a contempt of Congress charge and said his repeated Fifth Amendment pleas were \u201cunsupported\u201d, but DeSantis doesn\u2019t see \u201caccountability\u201d coming for the once-outspoken doctor.<\/p>\n

DeSantis broke it down, saying it comes down to the states.<\/p>\n

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.@ClayTravis<\/a> asks @GovRonDeSantis<\/a> @RonDeSantis<\/a> if states could prosecute Fauci:<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t hold your breath that you\u2019re going to see any type of major accountability. I just think there was a window for that. I\u2019m not sure that window is open in a real meaningful way at this point. I\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/QScukh5Uyu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve been given a pardon, you typically don\u2019t invoke the Fifth Amendment. You actually can be compelled to testify if you don\u2019t have an underlying legal risk from the conduct at issue. So the fact that he took the Fifth Amendment either means he\u2019s subject to contempt of Congress, which they could potentially pursue, or he\u2019s acknowledging that Biden\u2019s pardon didn\u2019t necessarily cover all the potential lines of inquiry,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s more of a federal question there. Now the question on the states is this. You would have to have two things. One, and it would to be a state attorney general\u2026 You have state potential with an attorney general. You also have local district attorneys.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis believes the time to prosecute Fauci has likely passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a lot of significant hurdles to do it. I think the time to have done Fauci was to do it when it was hot, you know, back in that 2020\/2021 time period at the federal level. That was where clearly the offenses would implicate federal law. You wouldn\u2019t have to try and do state law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would just tell people, I would not hold your breath that you\u2019re going to see any type of major accountability. I just think there was a window for that. I\u2019m not sure that window is open in a real meaningful at this point. I hope I\u2019m wrong about that. Don\u2019t get me wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Like many Americans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn\u2019t holding out much hope that Anthony Fauci will receive any real consequences for misleading Americans during the COVID pandemic. DeSantis joined The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a heated Senate hearing. Republican Senator Rand Paul, who… Continue reading DeSantis says \u2018don\u2019t hold your breath\u2019 waiting for Fauci accountability: \u2018I hope I\u2019m wrong\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}