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'Can’t prove that': Critics howl as Fox News shuts down a Tuberville lie

Tuberville Wants a Scapegoat, Not an AccountingThe Target Is Not the ProblemRepublican senators hauled out thousands of pages of Anthony Fauci’s private pandemic diaries and staged the familiar ritual: summon a public servant, demand that he validate their partisan mythology, and then act aggrieved when the target refuses the trap. Fauci pleaded the Fifth. Sen. Rand Paul said he would move toward contempt. Tommy Tuberville then performed the real purpose of the hearing: not oversight, but punishment dressed up as inquiry.Who Actually Holds PowerThe institutional power in this story sits with…

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