“White Coat Waste Project — a bipartisan group founded by a GOP strategist — first exposed the allegations of experiments on innocent pups, claiming NIAID approved a $375,000 grant to researchers based in Tunisia, who drugged the pooches and confined their heads in mesh cages full of infected sand flies.” 📰 FAUCI’S ANIMAL TORTURE COVER-UP Pleads Fifth when COVID grilling gets too hot! The Globe, August 24, 2026 Fuming Dr. Anthony Fauci — America’s former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director — tapped “media friends” and political allies to help quash the 2021 hubbub over allegations that his agency funded painful experiments on beagles that were ultimately put to death, according to records recently released by Sen. Rand Paul. Fauci’s diary entries — which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says were dug up by the Trump administration from 11 separate government servers before their release — suggest the nation’s former COVID czar worked overtime to protect his image and shake the shameful stain of what became known as Beagle-gate. White Coat Waste Project — a bipartisan group founded by a GOP strategist — first exposed the allegations of experiments on innocent pups, claiming NIAID approved a $375,000 grant to researchers based in Tunisia, who drugged the pooches and confined their heads in mesh cages full of infected sand flies. The project’s report claims the biting insects ate the helpless animals alive before the canines were killed. At the time, Republican and Democratic members of Congress condemned the alleged experiment and other supposed acts — and the released notes by Fauci appear to show the doc scrambling to save his reputation. “It is so very clear now that this is a concerted effort to discredit me and assassinate my character,” Fauci writes in an entry dated Oct. 26, 2021. “We have countered the attacks regarding the Beagle dog experiments, but still the attacks continue falsely claiming that NIAID funded the studies.” In November 2021, Fauci noted that he received a call from former President Barack Obama, who “expressed concern” and offered to “call up” then-President Joe Biden’s chief of staff or other officials “to have the administration be proactive in countering these lies.” The now-retired bureaucrat also discussed his media pals in the diaries, claiming a Washington Post scribe “agreed to write a story trying to uncover the source of this organized effort to discredit me.” After the release of the records, Fauci, 85, appeared before the Senate to face questioning regarding the origins of COVID-19 and federal funding of risky “gain of function” research in China that some have blamed for the deadly pandemic. Seemingly rattled Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment about 110 times during the contentious hearing, invoking his right against potential self-incrimination — and accused Paul of making “repeated slanderous comments” and trying to put him “behind bars” over his handling of the health scourge. Yet, agitated Paul continued to press, pointing out the doc was given a full pardon from Biden in January 2025, and vowed, “There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify.” @SenRandPaul