What Fauci’s Deposition Tells Us About the Man
Commentary
I’ve now slogged through all 446 pages of Fauci’s deposition in the lawsuit against the Biden administration brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana.
The transcript reads like many huge pieces of modern art in high-end museums. You keep examining it looking for meaning and message. People keep saying that the artist is a genius. But the more you look, the more opaque and obscure it becomes. And you can’t shake the feeling that actually the whole thing is rubbish.
He uses the phrase “I don’t recall” 194 times. In various other formulations, the invocation of his amnesia is closer to 300 over a 7-hour deposition. He continually falls back on just how busy he is managing $6.2 billion in spending plus 6,000 employees. This is why he simply cannot pay attention to the crucial issue being adjudicated: whether he directed agencies under his influence to censor science and other COVID-related matters at social media companies….