{"id":5707,"date":"2026-07-30T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:38:56","slug":"exclusive-former-fox-news-meteorologist-janice-dean-rips-fauci-for-hiding-behind-the-5th-amendment-what-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5707","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean rips Fauci for hiding behind the 5th Amendment: &#8216;What a coward&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci faced blistering criticism from families of COVID-19 victims Wednesday after the former public health official refused to answer a single question from lawmakers about his handling of the US response to the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5705\">Sophie Cunningham rips Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton for leaving teen girls in tears amid controversy: \u2018Truly embarrassing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fauci stonewalled the Senate Homeland Security Committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment over 100 times, as lawmakers grilled him on COVID-19\u2019s origin and details in a personal diary that chronicled his transformation from government official to celebrity as millions of Americans suffered from the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law to COVID-19, accused the former COVID czar of putting fame ahead of the American people \u2013 calling his repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment \u201canother slap in the face\u201d to grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was extremely difficult for me to watch the hearings today to witness a man who, like our former disgraced governor Andrew Cuomo, used a pandemic to enrich himself, lie to the public and decide that fame was more important than the lives of millions of Americans,\u201d Dean told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis reliance on the Fifth Amendment was another slap in the face of family members who lost loved ones because of failed leadership and his deadly decisions,\u201d she fumed. \u201cI fear that there will never be justice for the thousands of parents and grandparents who died alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean, whose in-laws died in a New York assisted living facility, argued\u00a0that Fauci \u201cwanted to be the hero of the COVID 19 pandemic, but instead showed the world what a coward he truly is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other families who lost loved ones during the pandemic shared Dean\u2019s frustration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s rather disingenuous that he\u2019s pleading the Fifth hundreds of times when all you did was see him on TV for days and months on end where he was effectively the be all end all related to what\u2019s going on with COVID,\u201d Vince D\u2019Amico, a business development director from Chicago who lost his parents, Carlo and Edda, to COVID-19, told The Post. .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5703\">Billy Ray Smith Jr, Chargers legend and College Football Hall of Famer, dead at 64<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Amico, 59, said Fauci positioned himself as the \u201ccentral focus\u201d of the pandemic response, and while he said he doesn\u2019t spend much time wondering about the \u201cwhat-ifs,\u201d he found Fauci\u2019s refusal to answer questions deeply frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the mouthpiece. He was the decision maker. He was the authority, right?\u201d D\u2019Amico said. \u201cWhether or not that authority was misguided by his personal ambitions, it\u2019s hard to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s hearing, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released Fauci\u2019s diary, which was filled with the former public health official\u2019s egotistical ideas and a bizarre \u201cfame fixation\u201d \u2013 providing insight into the mind of the doctor that D\u2019Amico also found vexing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position that he\u2019s taken after he was just in front of the world for three years, and now all of the sudden, especially with his diary coming out and seeing how he was a lot more interested in his own personal fame, that\u2019s frustrating to say the least,\u201d D\u2019Amico said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul said he plans to schedule a committee vote next week to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fauci received a preemptive, unconditional federal pardon from former President Joe Biden before he left office, making him immune to criminal charges for crimes committed between 2014 and the end of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any crimes committed by the former COVID czar during his testimony before the committee Wednesday would not be covered by the sweeping pardon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5701\">Megan Moroney cancels Denver concert after 3 songs as she fights back tears<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Victor Nava contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci faced blistering criticism from families of COVID-19 victims Wednesday after the former public health official refused to answer a single question from lawmakers about his handling of the US response to the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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