{"id":22835,"date":"2026-08-06T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22835"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:41:09","slug":"fauci-pleads-the-fifth-interview-elie-honig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22835","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Pleads the Fifth | Interview: Elie Honig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking the&nbsp;Fifth is a basic Constitutional right and not evidence of guilt. Republicans have made clear that they would like Fauci to be prosecuted. His pardon doesn&#8217;t protect him from state prosecutions or federal prosecutions for anything that happened after the date of the pardon. When you have an administration and a party that abuses justice with lawfare, it makes more sense for people to plead the fifth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d be nice for Fauci to answer questions in case we could learn anything, or be reminded of something, useful or interesting about what happened during Covid. But, the Republican Senators weren&#8217;t there to learn, they were there to grandstand, humiliate, and accuse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking the Fifth is basic defense attorney advice that any would give Fauci in that situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fauci Pleads the Fifth | Interview: Elie Honig\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZYds_h5eH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the Fifth is a basic Constitutional right and not evidence of guilt. Republicans have made clear that they would like Fauci to be prosecuted. His pardon doesn&#8217;t protect him from state prosecutions or federal prosecutions for anything that happened after the date of the pardon. When you have an administration and a party that abuses justice with lawfare, it makes more sense for people to plead the fifth. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be nice for Fauci to answer questions in case we could learn anything, or be reminded of something, useful or interesting about what happened during Covid. But, the Republican Senators weren&#8217;t there to learn, they were there to grandstand, humiliate, and accuse. <\/p>\n<p>Taking the Fifth is basic defense attorney advice that any would give Fauci in that situation. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZYds_h5eH4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[429,788,1705,200,1637,125,1704,528],"class_list":["post-22835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-constitution","tag-fauci","tag-fifth-amendment","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-pleading-the-fifth","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22836,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}