Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought a lawsuit against one of the world’s largest investment advisers alleging it pushes an ESG agenda, an acronym for environment, social, and governance. The lawsuit names the San Francisco-based Glass Lewis, a firm that advises more than 1,300 investment managers, and says its clients manage $40 trillion across 100 global markets. The lawsuit claims Glass Lewis made false representations and violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which went into effect last year and targets “non-financial” advice on ESG and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) matters. After the law passed, Glass Lewis sued Texas, claiming the law violated its First Amendment rights. Glass Lewis was joined in the lawsuit by Institutional Shareholder Services, also known as ISS. The Paxton lawsuit argues Glass Lewis’s advertising is deceptive and fails to inform clients of its ESG priorities. “Instead of providing objective and impartial investment advice, as advertised, Glass Lewis provides advice influenced by its own Environmental, Social, and Governance (‘ESG’) ideological considerations, apart from its clients’ best financial interests,” says the complaint filed in Texas District Court for Collin County. The company describes itself as providing “independent corporate governance research, data-driven insights, and innovative stewardship and proxy voting solutions.” Proxy voting is when representatives vote on behalf of shareholders at annual corporate shareholder meetings. The company notes that its proxy voting representatives attend more than 30,000 shareholder meetings each year. The proxy voting guidelines assert that companies “face significant financial, legal and reputational risks resulting from poor environmental and social practices,” according to the lawsuit. The Paxton complaint further notes the guidelines “call for every board to establish a ‘nominating and governance committee’ that is ‘reasonably diverse on the basis of age, race, gender, and ethnicity,’” the complaint continues. “Glass Lewis’s actions resemble those of an ESG activist forcing companies to comply with rules that governments will not otherwise adopt and that instead align with Glass Lewis’s own views on society’s environmental and social needs,” the lawsuit says. Glass Lewis did not immediately respond to inquiries for this story, but the company has defended itself in the past against charges of heavily emphasizing ESG and DEI concerns. In July 2023, the company responded to criticism from a group of Republican state treasurers, stating that its “benchmark policy considers environmental and social issues,” and adding, “That policy–like the proxy voting policies of many institutional investors–recognizes that how companies manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, as well as the composition of their board and workforce, can be material issues.” It added, “our clients have a broad range of views,” and that it offers a “menu of voting options.” “For example, Glass Lewis has a Climate Policy for investors focused on mitigating risks associated with climate change, a Catholic Policy that reflects the unique fiduciary responsibility of Catholic institutions, and a Governance-Focused Policy that is designed for our clients that are skeptical of the materiality of environmental and social considerations,” the company’s July 2023 statement said in response to the state treasurers. Glass Lewis has spent years prioritizing ESG policies, DEI quotas, and climate activism while claiming to serve investors’ financial interests, said Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, an organization opposed to ESG policies. “This deception is not just financially reckless but also illegal and must be met with consequences,” Hild told the Daily Signal. “That is exactly why Consumers’ Research has supported Texas’s new law, which ensures proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and ISS can no longer operate in the dark and must disclose when their advice to investors is not based solely on financial interest.” Paxton is the state’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. He is facing Democrat state Rep. James Talarico in the November election.

Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., and the Senate Homeland Security Committee put Dr. Anthony Fauci on center stage Wednesday morning. Republican senators hit him with three hours of questioning about his alleged part in the spread and coverup of the COVID-19 virus. Over 100 times, Fauci stayed silent, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republican committee members claimed he had no right to invoke the Fifth Amendment and will vote next week to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. This would ultimately put the investigation in Trump’s hands. Dr. Fauci Declined Over 100 Questions as Rand Paul Accused Him of Participating in the COVID CoverupDr. Fauci appeared at the Senate Homeland security committee hearing Wednesday morning. Six years after the Covid pandemic, the GOP is still looking for answers. The… pic.twitter.com/RdiuY5xzQm— Daily Signal (@DailySignal) July 29, 2026 Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Donald Trump during the COVID pandemic, advised major decisions surrounding the pandemic, including vaccine mandates, school closures, and essentially shutting down the economy. Paul claims Fauci knowingly lied about America funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan laboratory where the COVID virus was developed. According to Fauci’s “diary entries,” which were made public because he stored them on government property, he knew the wet market was not the source of the virus. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., claims Fauci benefitted financially from COVID. During the hearing, he shared that Fauci now has a net worth of $12 million. “He is the highest paid government employee ever,” Hawley told reporters after, claiming Fauci has a $400,000 yearly pension paid out using taxpayer dollars. Dr. Fauci avoids questions from the press after refusing to answer Senators questions for three hours invoking the 5th amendment over 100 times. The Senate Homeland Security Committee will vote next week if he is contempt of Congress for obstructing or disrespecting the… pic.twitter.com/rsn9aJbmhW— Virginia Grace McKinnon (@virginiagmck) July 29, 2026 Despite his alleged “full and unconditional pardon” from President Joe Biden for “any offense against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in” from 2014 to 2025, Fauci refused to answer a single question. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” Fauci stated repeatedly throughout the hearing. “Silence is admission,” Hawley said in response. “He does not have the Fifth Amendment right,” Hawley told the press. “He’s been given a full and unconditional pardon, … The Supreme Court’s case law on this is absolutely clear and has been for over a century. When you’ve been pardoned, your privilege disappears. The privilege is a right against self-incrimination leading to prosecution,” Hawley continued. “I think there is an argument—this has probably never been tested legally—if you’ve been granted full immunity … do you still need Fifth Amendment protections,” Paul told reporters after the hearing. Chairman Rand Paul arrives to question Dr. Fauci on allegedly funding the lab that produced the COVID virus in China. Paul tells press he hopes to “bring resolution to the American public” because “they deserve to know why dangerous research was funded in Wuhan.”@DailySignal pic.twitter.com/25HZMO1YlG— Virginia Grace McKinnon (@virginiagmck) July 29, 2026 “We believe that with his immunity from criminal liability, that he didn’t need to hide behind the Fifth Amendment, and that maybe the Fifth Amendment doesn’t attach when you have a pardon in place,” Paul said. The next step will be up to the U.S. Department of Justice. When asked if it will take up the investigation, the DOJ told the Daily Signal that “the Department seriously reviews all congressional referrals.” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., seemed to agree with Paul and Hawley, telling the Daily Signal that “ultimately, accountability is done by the executive.” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told reporters he wasn’t surprised Fauci pleaded the Fifth. “Yeah, I think that is the right to do that … obviously that’s his prerogative,” he said when asked to comment on Fauci’s response to senators. Cully Stimson, acting director of the Legal Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation, also said Fauci may have been within his rights to invoke the Fifth. Stimson said the pardon was limited to any offense against the United States that he may have committed or taken part in between January 2014 and January 2025 related to his roles at National Institutes of Health or the White House. “Any and all questions by members of Congress not related to that timeframe or those jobs are fair game,” Stimson said in a statement to the Daily Signal. “The pardon does not give him a license to lie before Congress or any other body under oath, which helps explain why he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,” he continued. “His evasiveness and unwillingness to answer simple questions unrelated to his duties speak volumes about his character,” Stimson concluded.

The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He may well indeed be fortunate to have that right and his pardon from former President Joe Biden given the grilling he received from the senators following the release of his diary by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Saturday. The diary revealed a man, once revered as a paragon of science and medicine, as a vain, egomaniacal, and ultimately frivolous glorymonger who knew a lot less about what was really going on during the COVID-19 pandemic than his massively inflated media persona let on. Fauci wasn’t even smart enough to refrain from jotting it all down in his journal to boot, hence his need to clam up rather than answer questions from senators who were given a serious bone to pick with the former self-styled bureaucrat in chief. Fauci’s diary posts remind me so much of the letters of Civil War Gen. George McClellan during his ill-fated time in charge of the Army of the Potomac, explaining in the most grandiose terms to his wife how he could be a dictator if he wanted to but won’t because of “admirable self-denial.” McClellan at least had some reason to think of himself as a wunderkind, a young Napoleon, given his exceptional early military career.  Fauci was little more than a career bureaucrat who’d suddenly been promoted by the media as the face of pandemic response. Even though he refused to answer to the American people, it’s nevertheless remarkable how far this man’s star has fallen, just like McClellan’s. Fauci was hyped by so many in the media as practically a demigod, a man of science without reproach who only a crackpot could be against. It wasn’t just the media. I remember during the dark days of the pandemic seeing a woman walking around New York City wearing a disturbing shirt that said in big letters, “I believe in Faucism.” He wasn’t just a scientist; he was a secular savior. It’s obvious now with the release of Fauci’s “Dear Diary” accounts, he was more than happy to cultivate that messianic impression. Obviously, Fauci couldn’t handle the fame, and that led to his undoing. As Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., pointed out, the fact that he was praised for his desire for lockdowns likely pushed him to promote even more draconian recommendations that too many leaders lapped up without question. Fauci was lionized by the legacy media, which made him the de facto covid oracle. The more Fauci advocated for restrictions/lockdowns and the more he criticized states like FL and GA that spurned his edicts, the more the media would treat him as a saint.Fauci’s increasingly… https://t.co/NrJKClIKn9— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 27, 2026 Fortunately, some resisted, and took a wiser, more balanced approach. But there are a lot of young Americans who will never get the time back that they lost in school, a lot of families who didn’t say goodbye to loved ones, and many will never place faith in institutions ever again, for good or ill. That’s in large part because of Fauci. There is a serious lesson in all this while Fauci is crashing out, one that shouldn’t be forgotten now that the pandemic lockdowns seem long past. What’s to be learned isn’t merely that Fauci was a dissembling blowhard so narcissistic that he would have made Narcissus blush with shame. He wasn’t the first and won’t be the last of that sort. No, it’s that his existence completely invalidates the idea of a kind of detached, technocratic style of government imagined by the original progressive movement. Here was a man who was entrusted with an enormous amount of power and was expected to make rational decisions for the country. He was exactly the type of technocratic manager that Woodrow Wilson and other progressives imagined would guide us in our glorious, post constitutional future. Instead, when finally given real power, he ignored scientific evidence that didn’t suit his narrative, attempted to silence those who questioned it, wasted his time during a crisis basking in the adulation of Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand, and all while basically declaring “I am science.” He had all the traits we associate with the worst aspects of monarchy without the grandeur and pomp of nobility, such that it is. And many Americans sadly seemed to crave this. They wanted a king or really a series of kings in lab coats. As we should see now, this is every bit as bad a way to govern as the monarchies of old, and in some ways it’s much worse. The divine rights of kings had limitations, sometimes strict ones. Unlimited government by millions of Faucis, unconstrained by democratic politics and genuine statesmanship doesn’t lead to the kind of rational, enlightened decision-making that was promised. It instead leads to the perversion of science, arbitrary rules, and ultimately ruthless tyranny. Fauci, the ultimate technocrat, behaved just as absurdly as any caricatured, blowhard politician drunk with fame and power. This is what the fools who dreamed of rule by experts were leading us to, a world in which Fauci and his ilk could rule without any kind of accountability ever again. Under this system the foibles that haunt mankind, including ambition, vanity, irrationality, and at times just plain stupidity, can be countered by nothing other than bureaucratic inertia. That’s a chilling thought. The Founding Fathers, on the other hand, knew that men aren’t angels, that Washington would have its Faucis. To ensure that we don’t become governed by beasts, they created a constitutional form of government where they hoped ambition would check ambition. They understood that leaders must be empowered to make wise decisions that balance various interests but must never be above the people they’ve been elected to rule. That constitutional system has taken its lumps over the years and doesn’t exactly work just as the Founders intended, but the wisdom of its creation remains. Whatever happens with Fauci the man, let us remember what he became before we ever dabble with “Faucism” again.

The McKinney Islamic Association is facing continued scrutiny after McKinney City Council announced it will be holding a final vote on a proposed mosque and Islamic center. Last week, it was revealed that McKinney’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the association’s plan to build a new mosque and community campus off Virginia Parkway near two residential neighborhoods. The council is scheduled to approve or deny the project at its Aug. 4 meeting. Ammon Blair, senior fellow for the Secure & Sovereign Nation initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Daily Signal that Texas needs to “demand complete transparency regarding MIA’s funding, foreign contributions, institutional affiliations, tribunal activities, use of campus facilities, dispute-resolution practices, and protections against coercion.” “Texas must enforce one constitutional order, one civil sovereign, and one controlling rule of law,” he said. “No religious, ideological, political, or foreign-linked organization stands above that standard.” The Proposal The proposed site for the center is a 5-acre tract that would include a 37,000-square-foot facility with a mosque, educational spaces, gymnasium, and meeting rooms. The facility would accommodate up to 3,000 people. Residents have raised concerns about noise, traffic congestion, and potential impacts on property values in the area. Despite those concerns, McKinney City Councilman Patrick Cloutier told attendees at last week’s meeting that the council has limited authority over the proposal. The Islamic association purchased the property years ago and originally sought to build a 45,000-square-foot building, which would have required a zoning change, Cloutier said. The group later reduced the size of the project to comply with the property’s existing zoning. The McKinney Islamic Association currently operates a mosque on Eldorado Parkway in a shopping center that includes multiple businesses. The organization says its growing congregation has created the need for a larger facility. The McKinney Islamic Association Sam Westrop, senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project, told the Daily Signal that the Mckinney Islamic Association has worked on presentations alongside the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, which he described as one of America’s leading Islamic organizations. CAIR has been under scrutiny by Texas officials, including U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, for its alleged ties to supporters of the terrorist group Hamas. For its part, CAIR rejects being associated with Hamas. “The smear ‘Hamas-CAIR’ was popularized by Islamophobic groups. It too falls flat. Hamas is on the U.S. Department of States’ Foreign Terrorist Organization list. Thus, being affiliated with or in any way supporting such a group would be illegal,” the group’s website states under a section called “urban legends.” Following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the McKinney mosque also organized a November 2023 event with the American Muslims for Palestine, a group that the Program on Extremism at George Washington University has researched and reported on for using “pro-Hamas rhetoric” and co-sponsoring “hundreds of pro-Hamas rallies on college campuses” following the attack. During that November 2023 event, the featured speaker was Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine’s director of outreach and community organizing. In a podcast interview released on the American Muslim Society’s YouTube channel on Oct 17, 2023, Herzallah offered a response to the situation in Gaza. Westrop said the McKinney Islamic Association “appears to be one of a subset of Texas mosques under Islamist control.” “Its expansion reflects the growing financial power and ideological determination of the radical forces working to subsume Texas Muslim communities,” he said. Imam Mohamed Al-Gebaly The current Imam at the McKinney mosque is Mohamed Al-Gebaly, according to the McKinney Masjid Instagram account and other online listings about McKinney Islamic Association. Blair told the Daily Signal that Al-Gebaly was assigned by the Egyptian government to a mosque in Virginia. “That history itself does not prove that Egypt currently directs, funds, controls, or supervises him. It does, however, establish that a foreign government formally appointed him to an Islamic religious leadership position inside the United States,” he said. Al-Gebaly is listed as “a distinguished graduate of Al-Azhar University, earning his degree in 1996.” A November 2023 research paper published by The Institute for National Security Studies called out the university—and its related Al-Azhar Institute in Egypt—for standing with Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. Al-Gebaly also serves in a leadership role with the Islamic Tribunal of North Dallas, which has come under scrutiny by Texas leaders, including by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in a November 2025 letter to law enforcement. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also is investigating the Tribunal. In November 2025, Abbott called on state and local authorities to investigate whether tribunals in Collin and Dallas Counties were operating as legal courts in place of state and federal law through the use of Sharia. In April 2026, Paxton demanded records from the Tribunal as part of an investigation into alleged illegal activity. His office cited allegations that the Islamic Tribunal “seeks to impose sharia law on all disputes among Texas Muslims and falsely represents that its decisions are final judgements with ‘the approval of the Texas Judicial system.'” The investigation and Paxton’s statements did not constitute a final judicial finding that the Islamic Tribunal violated Texas law. Since then, the Islamic Tribunal has updated its website to state that it provides only voluntary, spiritual, and nonbinding religious guidance. The website has a disclaimer saying that it does not “engage in the practice of law, function as a civil or criminal court, issue legally binding rulings or decisions, or provide legal advice or legal representation.” However, Blair said the disclaimer should not end the inquiry. “Investigators should determine what the Tribunal previously told participants, what agreements or submission forms it required, what decisions it issued, whether religious leaders directed congregants to participate, how it handled marriage and religious-divorce disputes, whether community pressure made participation functionally compulsory, and whether anyone represented a religious determination as binding under Texas law,” he said. Campus Expansion to Offer Social Services The McKinney Islamic Association also has worked with ICNA Relief Dallas, which provides food distribution, community-service activities, foster-care programming, and other social services. Blair says those collaborations demonstrate that the association participates in broader social-service networks and “is building institutional capacity that extends beyond prayer services.” “The proposed campus will add classrooms, a gym, a multipurpose facility, and expanded community space,” he said. “Officials should therefore understand it as permanent religious, educational, social, and institutional infrastructure, not simply additional room for weekly worship.” Constitutional Concerns Blair said McKinney Islamic Association’s foreign government connection, local mosque leadership, Islamic legal scholarship, Sharia-based religious adjudication, social-service partnerships, and community-building efforts should be examined together. “The constitutional issue does not concern private Muslim worship,” he said. “The First Amendment fully protects belief, prayer, religious education, peaceful association, voluntary mediation, and religious observance.” “The constitutional issue arises when any religious, ideological, political, or organizational system attempts to exercise coercive civil authority, obstruct access to American courts, misrepresent religious decisions as legally binding, pressure vulnerable participants into religious adjudication, or subordinate Texas law to an alternative governing system,” Blair added. The McKinney Islamic Association, CAIR, the Islamic Tribunal, and American Muslims for Palestine did not respond to the Daily Signal’s requests for comment before publication.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This video was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from the Senate Oversight and Homeland Security committees. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   By the time you hear this, Anthony Fauci has testified before Rand Paul’s senatorial committee, and he’s going to be extensively cross-examined. Why now? Because Anthony Fauci had come under a lot of controversy for his role as Donald Trump’s unofficial COVID czar between 2020 and ’21, and Joe Biden’s czar from ’21 all the way up to the end of the Biden term, and he had communicated through emails, but he was very careful usually to say, “Erase this email,” or not to be candid.  But for some reason, he kept a diary, and he did so on government files, government property. It was very hard to find. It was on 11 different servers. But Rand Paul’s team compiled some 1,100 pages since 2019, right on the eve of the COVID pandemic, and it is completely at odds with what he was telling you, the public, telling the President of the United States, and telling colleagues in the scientific community.  What does one learn about Anthony Fauci? I must say at the beginning, it is kind of unfair to expose someone’s inner thoughts. I’ve never kept a diary, but I suppose that people who do vent sometimes, they exaggerate, they let off steam, and we don’t know to what effect he was doing that, but we do have an incriminating record written by Fauci himself.  He is a narcissist. While 9,000 to 10,000 people are dying a day, he’s talking about whether he’s going to be eating with Jake Tapper that night. That’s against Fauci’s own rules of social distancing and in-house quarantine. You can’t go out. Remember, you couldn’t go out for Thanksgiving or Christmas.  And like Gavin Newsom and like Nancy Pelosi, we see the architects of these policies. Fauci, in particular, is violating them. But he talks about all the awards he could get, how he could angle to get a million here, five hundred thousand there, what type of exemption he could get, how wonderful he was on CNN or MSNBC, how Trump is impressed by him.  He’s the most important famous man in the nation, maybe the world, on and on and on. It’s just unfiltered egomania unchecked. He’s also unscientific. Remember, he told us that, “I remain the science.” But in his own admission, he calls in 12 expert virologists, and he asks them, given the genetic imprint of the SARS-2 virus, where did this come from?  Because everybody thinks it came from the Wuhan lab. Did it? Ten out of 12 basically said the genetic sequencing is so rare, and it has so many variables that had to be exactly right. It had to be made in the lab.   And he admits this in his diary and then he goes out and for the next two years promulgates this myth that it came from a dead pangolin in a meat market in Wuhan or a bat.  I think the closest bats are 100 miles away, a colony of bats. And so, he knew it was false. So, why did he do it? He did it because, as he had admitted in an earlier email exchange with Francis Collins, he did it because he knew that gain-of-function research was illegal in the United States since 2017. He wanted to conduct that, but he could not.  So, he helped fund, maybe in a symbolic rather than a huge amount of money, he granted through his friend Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth, a kind of circuitous route that would be untraceable and help this lab have funding.   But more importantly, many of the people in the lab had been trained in the United States, so he greenlighted the idea that people could communicate freely with them, add expertise, send instrumentation, visit, in what was a very, very dangerous operation to enhance viruses without proper safety considerations and outlawed in the United States.  And that had burst out on the American scene, and he wanted nobody to know that he was involved. It’s clear from the diary, he used the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His own fiefdom wasn’t necessarily designed to be as important as the CDC, FDA, or NIH, but it was because he was an empire builder, and it’s very clear that people who apply and agree with him for multimillion-dollar grants succeed, and those who cross him will not be funded by our federal government and our money.  He knew from the beginning, as he was criticizing Scott Atlas, an adviser on COVID to the White House, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. [Sunetra] Gupta, other authors of the Great Barrington Doctrine or Manifesto that said that shutting down the economy, shutting down the schools would ruin lives, increase suicide, substance abuse, rob children irreparably of key years of their education, and in a cost-to-benefit analysis, be much more deadly and destructive than the virus itself, which mostly was a danger to people 55 and over.  And he knew that because he said in his diary Scott Atlas was right that the schools are not spreading the virus and need not shut down. He said in his own diary that Scott Atlas did not say let it rip about herd immunity. And yet that’s what he wrote privately, but publicly he was assuring us that you had to have no mask at first, then one, then two.  He was assuring us that if you got vaccinated, you would not be infectious, nor would you be infected. He was infected a few months after he was inoculated, and he didn’t tell us that he had a severe side effect with probably a pulmonary embolism. So, it was not, “I remain the science,” as he assured us. He was one of the most unscientific of all of our bureaucrats.  He was bragging on the scientific method as he was rewarding and punishing critics and admirers. So, how did he get away with this? Who empowered him? Well, the media empowered him. He was an obscure bureaucrat that, from time to time, given his longevity, appeared during the AIDS crisis, the influenza outbreaks, and then he receded back into the obscurity of the bureau.  But this COVID brought him worldwide attention because he weaseled his way into the Trump administration. By the way, he did not like Donald Trump, and he was the toast of the liberal Washington media, and he used that position to really undercut the president. And remember, 2020 was not just the outbreak of the virus, but it was a campaign year, and it became a political manifesto, so to speak.  In other words, Fauci represented the science and Joe Biden and sane, inductive, educated people. And the Fauci critics were conspiratorial, they were yahoos, they were drinking bleach and taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. They were nutty. That was the narrative that he helped spread.  But the lessons are the media now has zero credibility.  Not after the Jussie Smollett caper that they ran with. Not after the hands up, don’t shoot caper. Not after the Steele dossier caper. Not after the laptop is a Russian product. Not after the 51 intelligence authorities. And not after the Wuhan bat caper that a bat flew in and was flying around Wuhan. Bottom line, it’s also a morality tale.  It’s right out of Greek tragedy. Sophocles could have done no better than write a tragedy about Anthony Fauci. He did all that he could to become famous, to become rich, to turn his government bureaucratic billet into a fiefdom where all of the scientific community would be scared of what he said because to disagree with him would mean a declination of funding and to be obsequious and a toady would be to have funding lavishly given to you.  And what was the tragic message that Sophocles would have said about Anthony? Everything he did to increase his power and fame and riches ensured his destruction. He was going headlong into destruction because he was hubristic and he ended up completely self-destructive, and he will go down in history as someone who abused his position, lied to the American people, and adopted policies that tragically led to more deaths than were necessary.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.