The President of the United States admitted to spending three hours of his morning watching one of his Covid-era political nemeses repeatedly invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a contentious Senate hearing, seemingly shirking more pressing matters such as the war with Iran he started five months earlier.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he’d taken in the entirety of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee when pressed on whether the retired immunologist should face consequences for declining to answer questions from Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and other Republicans who’ve expressed a desire to see him imprisoned for a range of fantastical reasons.
