                                        {"id":5745,"date":"2026-07-30T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:09:40","slug":"limelight-loving-fauci-all-smiles-as-hes-surprised-by-flowers-left-by-adoring-fan-after-getting-savaged-by-senate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5745","title":{"rendered":"Limelight-loving Fauci all smiles as he&#8217;s surprised by flowers left by adoring fan \u2014 after getting savaged by Senate Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci beamed with delight Thursday as he collected flowers from an admirer placed on the front steps of his $2.4 million Washington, DC home, less than a day after a jaw-dropping hearing where Republican senators took him out to the woodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5743\">First case of untreatable, potentially fatal Bourbon virus confirmed in New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fauci grinned like a gold-medal ice skater, wearing a red t-shirt, charcoal cargo pants and a pair of Hush Puppies as he clutched the bouquet of yellow flowers, which had been adorned with a hand-written note reading \u201cwe [heart] you Dr. Fauci!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, 85, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday as Senate Republicans peppered him with pointed questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, in which he was a key figure.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5741\">Exclusive | Mom of 12-year-old killed by stray bullet in The Bronx says NYC has only gotten safer for criminals<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Here\u2019s the latest on Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s Senate testimony over his COVID leadership: <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 5 most shocking moments from Anthony Fauci\u2019s Senate COVID testimony<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauci gave off \u2018signals of deception\u2019 during Senate hearing, body language expert says<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauci\u2019s Biden autopen pardon won\u2019t spare him from prosecution for 5th Amendment spectacle: GOP senators<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>GOP senator goes off on Fauci: \u2018Who the f\u2013k do you think you were?\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After his disastrous performance at the hearing, Fauci took in the air with his wife, Christine Grady, on a walk around the couple\u2019s posh DC neighborhood, and was overheard grousing that someone was \u201cshouting at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good doctor, clad in shorts and a Georgetown University \u201cIronMed 5K\u201d t-shirt, even let an F-bomb fly as he awkwardly fumbled with his phone, visibly frustrated by the apparent attention.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5739\">\u2018Hammer of the Gods\u2019 new secret weapon upgrades US Army power to blast enemy missile attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci smiled as he collected flowers at his DC home, a day after invoking the Fifth Amendment over 100 times at a Senate hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","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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