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Senator Bernie Moreno drops F-bomb at Fauci in COVID hearing, sparking online furor

7/29/2026

Against the backdrop of a Senate investigation into COVID-19 origins that has been building for six years, Wednesday's congressional hearing produced a moment that quickly traveled far beyond Capitol Hill.

Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, unleashed a profanity-laced rebuke at Dr.

Anthony Fauci, demanding an apology and asking who Fauci thought he was to have issued the pandemic guidance Moreno argues damaged American lives.

Fauci, who served as President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor and was a central government spokesman throughout the pandemic, declined to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment.

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