A former top official at NIAID — that’s the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also known as Anthony Fauci’s personal kingdom — just got indicted. Not investigated. Not referred. Not “under review.” Indicted. As in, a grand jury looked at the evidence and said yeah, this person needs to be in a courtroom.
And now a GOP senator is publicly demanding that the Justice Department go after the big fish himself. “Fauci is next,” the senator declared. Somewhere in Georgetown, a very small man in a very expensive suit just choked on his morning espresso.
For those of us who spent 2020 and 2021 watching Fauci contradict himself on national television every 48 hours — masks don’t work, masks do work, wear two masks, actually one is fine, six feet apart, no wait three feet — this feels like Christmas morning. Except instead of presents under the tree, there’s a federal indictment with a NIAID letterhead on it.
The dominoes are falling. That’s what’s happening here and everyone in Washington knows it. When you indict a top official at an agency, that official has two choices: take the fall alone, or start talking about who gave the orders. And we all know who gave the orders at NIAID. The guy who stood behind the presidential podium for four years acting like he was the elected leader of the free world.
Remember when Fauci told Congress — under oath — that NIAID never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Remember how that turned out to be, to use the technical legal term, a big fat lie? Remember when Rand Paul confronted him directly and Fauci got all huffy and indignant, wagging his little finger and saying “you don’t know what you’re talking about, Senator”?
Well, Senator, it looks like you knew exactly what you were talking about. And now the receipts are coming in.
The indicted official — whose specific role was overseeing the kind of research grants that NIAID was funneling to labs that definitely were NOT doing gain-of-function research (wink wink) — is now facing federal charges. The details are still rolling out, but the pattern is unmistakable. The accountability train that everyone said would never leave the station? It left. And it’s picking up speed.
Fauci’s defenders are already out in force, doing what they always do. “He’s a dedicated public servant!” “He saved millions of lives!” “This is a political witch hunt!”
Oh, please. This is the man who told Americans they couldn’t go to church, couldn’t visit their dying relatives in the hospital, couldn’t open their small businesses — while he sat for magazine cover shoots and threw out the first pitch at a baseball game. This is the guy who funded research at a Chinese lab with ties to the People’s Liberation Army and then lied about it to Congress. This is the bureaucrat who appointed himself America’s doctor and then prescribed economic destruction for 330 million people.
A witch hunt? No. A witch hunt is when you go looking for something that doesn’t exist. This is more like a treasure hunt where the treasure is federal crimes and the map has a giant red X on Bethesda, Maryland.
The senator demanding Fauci’s prosecution isn’t just grandstanding, either. When a subordinate gets indicted, the investigation doesn’t stop — it accelerates. Prosecutors don’t indict the number two to send a message. They indict the number two to flip them. That’s how federal cases work. You start at the bottom and squeeze your way to the top.
And Tony is at the top.
Think about what this man did to this country. Schools closed for over a year in some states. Children fell behind academically, socially, and emotionally — and we’re still dealing with the fallout. Small businesses that families spent generations building went under permanently. People died alone in hospitals while their families stood in parking lots. Suicides spiked. Drug overdoses spiked. Depression and anxiety in children hit record levels.
All because one unelected bureaucrat decided he knew better than 330 million Americans how they should live their lives. And when people questioned him, he literally said “I represent science.”
You don’t represent science, Tony. You represent everything that’s wrong with a federal government that has zero accountability and unlimited power. But the accountability part? That’s changing. One indictment at a time.
The clock is ticking. The senator said it plainly — the Justice Department needs to “act now.” The evidence is there. The indictment of his former colleague proves the investigation is active and producing results. The only question is whether DOJ has the guts to go all the way to the top.
We think they do. And we think Tony knows it too.
Tick tock.