HHS bureaucrats accused of 'sabotaging' RFK Jr's efforts to expose Fauci records

Ron Johnson says HHS staffers are dragging their feet on getting into Anthony Fauci's old government iPhone, and honestly, would anyone be shocked if that's true? This is an agency that spent years telling us gain-of-function research wasn't gain-of-function research, that natural immunity didn't count, that six feet of distance was science until it quietly wasn't. A culture that comfortable with shading the truth doesn't just disappear because there's a new name on the building.

The specific claim here matters: it's not that Fauci himself is hiding something new, it's that the career staff underneath RFK Jr. are the ones slow-walking access. That's the actual story, and it's worth sitting with. Political appointees come and go every four or eight years. The people who actually run these agencies day to day often don't, and they know it. If the allegation holds up, this is a case study in why "the administration changed" doesn't automatically mean the administration's records suddenly become available.

We're not interested in relitigating every COVID fight from 2021. But a government phone belonging to the most powerful unelected health official in modern American history should not require a Senate investigation just to get opened. If there's nothing incriminating on it, producing the records is easy and this whole controversy evaporates. The fact that it hasn't evaporated yet tells you something.

Congress has subpoena power for a reason, and Johnson should use every bit of it. Delay is not the same thing as innocence, and five years after the fact, the public has more than earned the right to see what's actually on that phone.