Fauci's fed-up wife flips the bird as ex-top doc miserably takes out trash hours after contempt vote 76%

By Victor Nava86%

8/6/2026, 4:09:34 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Horn Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 55.1% saturation with 145 hits. Analysis detected 341 faulty-reasoning hits from 263 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.9% and a BS Rank of 76% (7,149 of 28,846 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.

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Anthony Fauci looked downright miserable Thursday after a Senate committee voted to hold him in contempt for refusing to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Just hours after the vote to refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution, a sullen-looking Fauci was spotted frowning as he dutifully wheeled a recycling bin to the curb of the $2.4 million Washington, DC, home he shares was his wife and Georgetown University colleague, Christine Grady. 
Fauci later hopped in the passenger seat of a vehicle and was driven away by his wife. 
Grady, apparently enraged by the photographer's presence in their tony neighborhood, flipped off the camera before peeling off. 
Fauci stared blankly out the window as his wife made the rude gesture. 
Earlier Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-5 along party lines to hold the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times last week. 
If convicted of a misdemeanor contempt charge, Fauci could face up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. 
The Brooklyn-born doctor had been hauled in to testify after being subpoenaed by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has accused Fauci of covering-up the origins of COVID-19 and misleading the public about the disease. 
Meanwhile, three state attorneys general have also subpoenaed Fauci as part of a joint probe into the former COVID czar. 
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