Anthony Fauci just sat before the United States Senate and took the Fifth 111 times.
Bill O'Reilly watched every minute of it – and now he knows exactly how this ends.
And O'Reilly looked at what just happened to Fauci in the Senate and said something nobody in Washington wants to hear.
Fauci Took the Fifth 111 Times While His COVID Diary Called Him a Liar
Last week, Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security Committee – chaired by Sen. Rand Paul – and refused to answer a single question.
For three straight hours, Fauci recited the same line 111 times: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution."
He wouldn't say what he knew about COVID's origins, wouldn't touch gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and when Sen. Josh Hawley asked him to confirm the color of his own tie – just to see if he'd blink – he didn't do that either.
In the days before the hearing, Rand Paul released roughly 1,100 pages of Fauci's personal pandemic diary.
The entries showed Fauci privately considering the lab leak theory while publicly dismissing it – the exact opposite of what he told the American people for years.
Why the Biden Pardon Doesn't Protect Fauci From State Charges
Biden handed Fauci a preemptive pardon on his last day in office – one of the most nakedly political acts of the entire Biden presidency.
The pardon was designed to slam the door shut before Trump's Justice Department could open it.
Except it didn't work the way they planned.
Presidential pardons cover federal offenses only. They do not protect anyone from state prosecution – a legal principle called dual sovereignty that the Supreme Court has affirmed repeatedly.
The moment Biden signed that pardon, Fauci lost one line of defense: he could no longer invoke his Fifth Amendment right on questions already covered by the pardon.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville didn't hedge after the hearing. "Anthony Fauci is responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans and tens of thousands of Alabamians," Tuberville told Fox News Digital, adding that the federal pardon offers Fauci zero protection from state courts.
Florida and Louisiana Open Fauci State Investigations
Florida moved first.
Attorney General James Uthmeier announced his office was launching a Fauci investigation the same day as the Senate hearing. "Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable," Uthmeier wrote. "My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It's past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID."
Louisiana came next. AG Liz Murrill – whose office had previously deposed Fauci alongside Missouri AG Eric Schmitt – announced Louisiana was joining the coalition on August 1. "Fauci lied," Murrill wrote. "Louisiana and Missouri deposed Dr. Fauci.
At the time, he claimed to not recall many key details of his own actions and now we are discovering contemporaneous records he kept."
Those contemporaneous records are the diary.
Fauci told Louisiana and Missouri under oath that he couldn't recall key details about his own decisions. His diary – written at the time those decisions were being made – shows he remembered everything.
That gap is exactly what Murrill is investigating.
OReilly Names the Man Bankrolling Fauci's Legal Defense
Bill O'Reilly told his audience exactly where the Fauci situation is headed.
"Now Fauci has got a pardon from the Biden people, you know that," O'Reilly said. "But the states of Louisiana and Florida are starting to investigate him. I don't know what for, it's just beginning, but the attorneys general in those states, they're looking to get him. And then other red states will join and they'll try to nail him on a state level, on damage done to the individual states."
O'Reilly's final verdict: "Fauci is going to be in court for the next five years."
On the funding question, O'Reilly was equally direct. Fauci cannot cover his own legal bills through years of multi-state litigation. O'Reilly's prediction: "Soros will pick up the tab or somebody like that."
The left-wing machine that spent five years covering for Fauci will spend the next five years keeping him out of state prison.
What Fauci's COVID Diary Proved About His Senate Testimony
The 1,100-page diary release was both politically damaging and legally significant.
Louisiana AG Murrill made the direct connection: Fauci claimed memory lapses during depositions, but the diary shows precise, detailed thinking from that exact period – the kind of specificity that creates a viable perjury framework at the state level.
Each new subpoena puts Fauci back under oath in a different state courtroom, before a different set of prosecutors, with a diary that already contradicts everything he swore he couldn't remember.
Fauci's own lawyers called it a "years-long public crusade" to prosecute him for "imaginary crimes."
His diary was busy proving otherwise.
Sources:
- Fox News, "Louisiana becomes latest state to launch Fauci investigation following explosive Senate hearing," August 1, 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "Louisiana joins Alabama and Florida in investigating Fauci," August 2, 2026.
- Fox News, "Fauci faces lifetime ban from federal government work under new bill following explosive hearing," August 2, 2026.
- Sen. Rand Paul press release, "Chairman Rand Paul Uncovers New Evidence of Fauci Deleting Official Records," September 12, 2025.
- PJ Media, "What's Next for Fauci?," July 30, 2026.
- Louisiana Radio Network, "Louisiana to join Florida and Alabama in investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci to pursue state charges," August 3, 2026.