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man sat behind Fauci pulling faces at him in fiery House Covid hearing. But who is he?
Martha McHardy
Tue, 4 June 2024
Dr Anthony Fauci has responded after a Jan 6 rioter was seen sitting behind him during Monday’s House Covid hearing pulling faces.
Fauci was called to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s hearing on Monday, as House Republicanshave sought to scrutinize his role as one of the chief faces of the federal government’s response to the pandemic.
During the hearing, he went head-to-head with Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene who told the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases he was “not a doctor” and “belonged in prison” amid heated questioning.
But Greene was not the only one of Fauci’s critics who caused a stir during Monday’s proceedings.
A January 6 rioter, who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet for the insurrection, was seen sitting behind the medical expert pulling faces.
A man was seen making faces behind Fauci during Monday’s Covid hearing (C-SPAN)
CNN host Kaitlan Collins also claimed that the man yelled out in agreement when Greene said that Fauci belonged in prison.
The rioter was revealed to be Brandon Fellows, who was recently released from prison on May 20 after serving three years on both felony and misdemeanor charges. Fellows was convicted of entering the Capitol and smoking cannabis in Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley’s office, according to the Department of Justice.
Fauci said he was made aware of who was sitting behind him after the hearing and asked: “What’s somebody like that doing at a hearing about Covid?”
Fellows was arrested on January 16 2021 in New York by the FBI following the insurrection after spending days bragging about the events of January 6 and posting videos and photos online.
Brandon Fellows was arrested following the January 6 insurrection (Department of Justice)
In one video, he was seen entering senator Merkley’s office where he put his feet on the table and took two drags from a joint that was handed to him by another rioter. Meanwhile, in pictures, he was seen posing with police officers.
After the riot, he gave an interview to Bloomberg where he said his Bumble dating profile had “blown up” with attention because of the interest in his Capitol riot pictures.
In court, he represented himself, submitting long, handwritten documents in which he compared himself to Jesus.
He also at one point asked if he should call the wife of US District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was presiding over his case. Judge McFadden later lambasted him, accusing him of showing the “height of contempt” for all branches of government, adding that he had “flagrantly lied” under oath.
Anthony Fauci takes his seat ahead of a bruising House hearing about Covid on Monday (AFP via Getty Images)
“It is, rather, your defiance of any and every attempt to try to get your actions to conform to what the law requires that has gotten you to this point,” McFadden said. He later added: “It’s time for you to grow up!”
Since being released from prison, Fellows has continued to seek media attention, giving an interview to Bloomberg in which he said he had “no regrets” about the insurrection, before attending the Covid hearing on Monday.
The GOP representative claimed during the hearing that Fauci’s “repulsive, evil science” led to school children having to endure class with masks and claimed he abused puppies with his testing, something he denied.
The Republican firebrand was rebuked by colleagues for her aggressive questioning as Fauci was grilled over his pandemic response and the origins of Covid.
“As a dog lover, I want to tell you this is disgusting and evil, what you signed off on, and these experiments that happened to beagles paid for by the American taxpayer,” she said. “And I want you to know that Americans don’t pay their taxes for animals to be tortured liked this.”
Throughout her hearing, she refused to acknowledge Fauci as “Dr Fauci” but instead as “Mr Fauci.”
“Mr Fauci – because you’re not ‘doctor’ – you’re Mr. Fauci,” she said while asking a question before saying, “No, I don’t need your answer.”
Shortly after Greene’s questioning, Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, lambasted her line of questioning.
“That was completely irresponsible,” he said. “This might be the most insane hearing I’ve actually attended.”
Throughout the hearing, Garcia and other Democrats apologized to Fauci for attacks from Republicans, noting how he, his wife and daughters received numerous death threats.
The hearing was Fauci’s first public appearance on Capitol Hill since he left as the chief medical adviser for the Biden administration and as director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
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Fauci rips convicted Jan. 6 rioter who made faces behind him during COVID hearing
By Social Links for Emily Crane
Published June 4, 2024, 9:08 a.m. ET
Dr Anthony Fauci has ripped a convicted Capitol rioter who was caught on camera repeatedly making faces behind him during Monday’s COVID congressional hearing — calling him out for showing up at his testimony just two weeks after being cut loose from prison.
Fauci responded in an interview Monday night to the antics of Brandon Fellows, an upstate New York chimney repairman who was seated directly behind the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as he testified to Congress about the death threats he received while overseeing the US’s COVID-19 response.
Brandon Fellows, an upstate New York chimney repairman, was caught on camera repeatedly making faces behind Dr. Anthony Fauci during Monday’s COVID hearing.
CNN
“What’s somebody like that doing at a hearing about COVID?” Fauci told CNN when asked about Fellows’ looming presence behind him.
Fellows’ face-making antics, which quickly caused a stir on social media, eventually led to him being tossed out of the subcommittee hearing by security guards.
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As he was being escorted out, Fellows also apparently shouted that Fauci belonged in prison, CNN reported.
Fauci admitted he didn’t hear Fellows yelling, but said it had been brought to his attention that “someone who just got out of jail for being arrested for the January 6 attack on the Capitol” had been sitting behind him.
Fellows wearing a hat and beard sitting on a police motorcycle outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Fellows was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Fellows, for his part, took to social media in the immediate aftermath to brag that “things are going well for me here in DC.”
He quickly changed his Facebook cover photo to an image of him making a face behind the infectious diseases expert.
“Democrats are hilariously LOSING THEIR MINDS!” he boasted.
“Today marks 2 weeks since being released, I considered this fun, not necessarily an accomplishment, but I’ve been accomplishing a decent amount and having tons of fun the past 2 weeks.”
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Fellows was convicted of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors over his role in the Capitol siege.
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Fellows was sentenced to just over three years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the US Capitol.
He was convicted of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors after footage showed him entering the Capitol via a broken window and proceeding to the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to smoke weed.
Fellows made headlines repeatedly in the wake of the riot after declaring his Bumble dating profile had been “blowing up” from his newfound infamy and that he had absolutely “no regrets.”
FILED UNDER ANTHONY FAUCI CAPITOL RIOT CONGRESS CORONAVIRUS 6/4/24
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