{"id":76707,"date":"2026-07-29T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/fauci-invokes-fifth-amendment-and-declines-to-testify-in-senate-covid-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:39","slug":"fauci-invokes-fifth-amendment-and-declines-to-testify-in-senate-covid-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/fauci-invokes-fifth-amendment-and-declines-to-testify-in-senate-covid-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adviser to Trump and Biden for pandemic says Republican senator has \u2018unhinged obsession\u2019 with him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/29\/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-rand-paul-covid-lab-leak-theory-iran-tariffs-latest-news-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Anthony Fauci, who served as a key adviser to Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the Covid-19 pandemic, has refused to answer questions at a high-profile congressional hearing, accusing a Republican senator of having an \u201cunhinged obsession\u201d with him.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, the veteran former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination when appearing before a Senate committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adviser to Trump and Biden for pandemic says Republican senator has \u2018unhinged obsession\u2019 with him US politics \u2013 live updates Dr Anthony Fauci, who served as a key adviser to Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the Covid-19 pandemic, has refused to answer questions at a high-profile congressional hearing, accusing a Republican senator of having &#8230; <a title=\"Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/fauci-invokes-fifth-amendment-and-declines-to-testify-in-senate-covid-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}