by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
Senate investigators have a copy of Anthony Fauci's Covid era government cellphone.
A copy of the contents on the device has been transferred from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chaired by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson.
A spokesperson for the senator told Fox News Digital the subcommittee "obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci's iPhone that was used during his time at HHS."
Investigators are confident that the contents of the device will help address questions on pandemic origins and mandates that Fauci refused to answer during a hearing last week in which he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times.
According to a Wall Street Journal report:
Fauci used the phone during his time as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to a spokeswoman for Johnson, whose subcommittee obtained the phone records. Fauci played a central role during the Trump administration's response to the pandemic in 2020, publicly contradicting President Trump at times and urging more public caution than some political figures, which made him an enemy of Trump loyalists.
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The phone could be part of more public document dumps on the way: Paul and Johnson have received millions of additional Fauci-related pages from government servers, people familiar with the matter said, and are still pressing for more. And at least four Republican-led states have meanwhile launched their own investigations into Fauci.
The hearing culminated with Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul vowing that Fauci would face consequences for declining to comment and questioning whether his auto-pen pardon from Joe Biden could protect him.
On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Paul, voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.
A resolution released by Paul on Tuesday states that the senator "found the privilege of the Fifth Amendment unsupported" as Fauci invoked his rights against self-incrimination for a period of time for which he has received a pardon. The resolution also argues that Fauci forfeited his right to invoke the Fifth Amendment by giving a brief opening statement condemning the Paul's investigation.
Bill O'Reilly believes the courtroom will be Fauci's new home in the next five years, with George Soros and his allies paying his legal bills:
Now Fauci has got a pardon from the Biden people, you know that. 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.
"So Fauci is going to be in court for the next five years. The feds can't get him because of the pardon, but the states, if they can prove that Fauci committed a state crime, they can get him. Now, Fauci's gotta be funded. He can't pay the bills, his legal bills on that. So he'll go into the progressive movement… You know, Soros will pick up the tab or somebody like that.
BREAKING: I have confirmed @SenRonJohnson subcommittee (the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations) has obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s iPhone that was used during his time at HHS.
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 5, 2026
The phone was provided by HHS and likely provides new insight, records into Fauci's conduct.… https://t.co/aEy8TSQPxD
🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Ron Johnson has just obtained Dr. Fauci's COVID-ERA PHONE records that were COVERED UP, now sent to the Senate by HHS Sec. Bobby Kennedy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 6, 2026
Good! PROSECUTE and GO AROUND the pardon 🔥
This is crucial evidence that could now be handed over to the Attorney General… pic.twitter.com/xdtRsR5vll
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