Today, I visited Fort Knox to see the gold. Since the Fed opened in 1913, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. $100 back then is worth $3,300 today. That's because Congress spends into oblivion, with no regard for our national debt. At the same time, the Fed prints the difference.

A million Americans died. Workers lost jobs to mandates. Kids lost years of school they'll never get back. Businesses closed for good. Today my committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer for any of it.

The Boston Herald is right. Americans have a right to be skeptical of the decisions and recommendations Dr. Fauci made. We deserve to know the truth about what took place, especially when he was saying one thing publicly and something completely different in his diary.

Every American who watched the legacy media cover COVID owes it to themselves to read Fauci's own diary. It reads less like a public health record and more like a group chat between Fauci and the anchors who were supposedly holding him accountable. They had dinners during quarantine, texts calling Fauci the better man, and an anchor thanking him for dodging a hard question. Meanwhile, CNN and ABC have gone almost completely silent on their own reporters' role in this. If they wonder why nobody trusts them anymore, they should start with their own archived text messages.

Great question from @stephenasmith: who decides what counts as gain-of-function research, scientists, Congress, or a jury? My answer: stop hiding behind the definition. EcoHealth's own emails thank NIH for turning their "gain-of-function" money back on. Fauci's team used the term themselves. The real question was never semantics. It was whether this research was dangerous and whether it should have been funded at all.

Reading the @RandPaul's @BillGates doc dump & am noting Gates' affinity for state-run mass surveillance -- even using people's "spending records" to triangulate with whom they've been socializing. In a manuscript he sent NIAID, he writes approvingly of China's "contact tracing" technologies: "Some countries, including China and South Korea, required patients to turn over information about where they have been in the last 14 days by looking at GPS information on their phone or their spending records. It is unlikely that Western countries will require this. There are applications you can download that will help you remember where you have been; if you ever test positive, then you can voluntarily review the history or choose to share it with whoever interviews you about your contacts." He writes of Germany: "Most countries will use the approach that Germany is using, which requires interviewing everyone who tests positive and using a database to make sure there is follow-up with all the contacts. The pattern of infections is studied to see where the risk is highest and policy might need to change. "In Germany, if someone is tested and confirmed positive, the doctor is legally required to inform the local government health office. The doctor must provide all personal data—name, address, phone number—so that the health office can contact the person and ensure they isolate themselves."

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

Great discussion with @stephenasmith on why I still have serious questions for Dr. Fauci. In 2010, before any pandemic existed, Fauci argued in The Washington Post that even a lab leak causing a pandemic would be worth the "knowledge" gained. That is not a pandemic-era mistake. That is a philosophy he held for over a decade and used as justification for funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan starting in 2014.

Like I told @DanaPerino and @BillHemmer: If you have nothing to hide, you don't need a blanket shield from prosecution. Anthony Fauci got one anyway, and nobody will say why. What we do know is he spent years deleting emails, deleting them again from the deleted folder, and asking others to erase voicemails. That silence tells you everything.

My plan, moving forward, is for the HSGAC to vote on contempt charges for Anthony Fauci. Once it passes the committee, we would send the referral directly to the DOJ for prosecution.

It's one thing for me to say Fauci looked evasive in that hearing room. It's another for an independent body language expert to review the tape and describe visible signals of deception the moment the tough questions arose.

Senator Rand Paul says he believes his committee has the votes to hold Fauci in contempt. “I think we do have the votes to pass it out of committee.” “I think there are two different approaches we can take after that.” “We can try for a vote on the floor, which may not pass.” “Or I can send the referral directly to the Department of Justice.” @SenRandPaul