EXCLUSIVE: From Inside the Room - The Fauci Deposition: Attorneys General from Missouri and Louisiana Depose Dr. Fauci, Prove He Was Not Upfront with American Public

The day before Thanksgiving, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, deposed Anthony Fauci (head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID]) at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and attorney John Burns were present at the deposition and witnessed the octogenarian squirm and lie for seven hours.

While the deposition uncovered no smoking guns, the sheer volume of things Fauci “couldn’t recall” or “couldn’t remember,” along with his obvious attempts at providing misleading and deceptive responses, collectively damned his testimony.

No reasonable observer could find his testimony to be credible. Simply put: he lied even when the truth would have made a better story.

Here are some observations and highlights from the Fauci deposition:

* Fauci is a very tiny man. We’re not just referring to his integrity and character, but also his physical stature: he is quite small. It is easy to see why critics have accused him of having a Napoleon complex.

* Fauci is a shameless, but skillful liar. He lies when he feels he can get away with it or when he feels there will be no meaningful consequences.

* Fauci consistently lied unless and until he was confronted with alternate facts. For example, he claimed he really wasn’t familiar with Ralph Baric (creator of the COVID virus) or Peter Daszak (who brokered Fauci’s NIAID grant money to the Chinese biolab in Wuhan), until he was confronted with evidence that his own chief of staff emailed him describing Daszak and Baric as being part of Fauci’s team!

* Another lie – Fauci claimed that he had no knowledge that his communications team did not coordinate with social media companies to stop “misinformation and disinformation” until he was forced to admit that he actually did know of certain instances of coordination.

FUN FACT: until VERY recently, Fauci’s daughter worked for Twitter.

FUN FACT: Fauci is a hypochondriac. In a bizarre and stunning segment during the deposition, Fauci blew off some of his frustration on the poor court reporter. The court reporter transcribing the deposition sneezed, and Fauci stopped the deposition and scolded the court reporter:

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