Five years on, Armstrong Williams argues Anthony Fauci still owes America answers on lab funding, early COVID evidence, and policies that reshaped daily life.
Corrupt Bush hack turned Limbaugh-wannabe turned highly paid Sinclair Broadcasting tool has a paid for opinion.
In January 2005, USA Today reported that documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that Williams had been paid $440,000 to promote the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. Williams was hired "to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same." As part of the agreement, Williams was required "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts", and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio spots that aired during the show in 2004. The contract with Williams was part of a $950,000 contract between the US Department of Education and the public relations company Ketchum Inc.
After the USA Today revelations, Tribune Media Services (TMS) terminated its syndication agreement with Williams. In a statement to Editor & Publisher (E&P), TMS stated: "[A]ccepting compensation in any form from an entity that serves as a subject of his weekly newspaper columns creates, at the very least, the appearance of a conflict of interest. Under these circumstances, readers may well ask themselves if the views expressed in his columns are his own, or whether they have been purchased by a third party." In response, Williams initially told E&P that he intended to self-syndicate his column. E&P contacted 10 newspapers listed as clients on Williams's website to ask if they would continue to carry the column; the majority stated that they would not. Williams later told the Associated Press, "Even though I'm not a journalist—I'm a commentator—I feel I should be held to the media ethics standard. My judgment was not the best. I wouldn't do it again, and I learned from it."
On September 30, 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report concluding that the Department of Education had acted illegally in making the payments because the government's role in the public relations effort was not disclosed.
Williams has settled sexual harassment lawsuits, in 1997, 2005, 2017 and 2019 (see wiki).
Will Box-of-Wine Pirro decide to bring a contempt charge? Without having had a Senate vote, it can't go anywhere. Pointless bait - for political points.
Fauci as a government employee was not entitled to any royalties resulting from his work. Any work that he did, as a govt. employee, belongs to the government AKA the people.
If you work for a private company and are tasked with developing X and X is a success and merits a monetary award or reward, that award or reward is given to the employer NOT to the employee who did his/her job for the employer which was to develop X.
The person who develops X is using govt or employers office or lab space to work and uses the employer's ancillary personnel to perform the tasks needed to accomplish X. So usually everything needed to meet the goal is done at the expense of the organization that hired the expert and assigned the task of making X. The product X and financial reward for X belongs to the employer and not to the employee who did his/her job for a salary.
Who cares about what he got paid at work? Granted it was well over what he earned. He made his bucks by investing in questionable therapies and drugs starting during the AIDS crisis. He used his position to push these drugs and therapies that made him money, AS AN INVESTOR.
The average person is no match for the psychological manipulations that were used. This is bigger than big pharma and the medical system, it is just the first attempt at control. It is bigger than a political party, it is bigger than the known players like Gates. This started decades ago and CBDCs were a part, now coming into focus. We are being surveilled and tracked.
Answers are owed - about the Epstein coverup, about the Iran boondoggle, about the Trump Crime Family's staggering corruption and self dealing, about all of the trump insiders profiting from and influencing policy decisions, about the billions of dollars worth of fraud investigations dropped by Trump's DOJ, about the 15 or so ongoing investigations into Musk companies that just disappeared in January 2025 (along with some of the agencies involved), and much more.
From the very start I felt the whole pandemic was about hawking a vaccine and if you connect the dots it certainly looks that way. Why on earth would anyone ever do a gain-of-function on a virus to make it transferable and deadly? Well one looks to be a hero riding in on a white horse with the life saving vaccine (and becomes obscenely rich). The vaccine was patented a few years before the whole pandemic. Fauci was a big part of the whole devious scheme from A to Z. That's why he cannot honestly answer questions.
Very well stated. To restore trust, we need a full blown accounting of the mistakes made, the lies told and major restructuring to insure this can't happen again. If accountability comes, I'm afraid it won't be during Trump's presidency.
Trust cannot be restored, and it should not be restored. Fear not, and yes it will happen again as long as there are clueless people fearmongering by fictitious virus...
He is as crooked as they come. He pushed remdesevir 'run death is near' when he could find no other umse for it but needed to make a profit on it, surrounded himself with crooked cronies, and found a way to destroy many peoples' lives while raking in profits. He is disgusting.
Few KNOW the elf fraud is getting a HALF million ($$$) dollar pension as well. The highest paid NON elected government servant previously now is getting a $500,000+ PENSION. Talk about being untouchable. The SWAMP is just sooooo DEEP in corruptive protecting of it's own holding NO ONE who should be accountable in the end!
It's hard not to overstate the many facets of damage our country experienced at the hands of this man and his maniacal ego. While on the one hand, America does deserve answers, I'm certain there are others that facilitated or encouraged this deviant 'doctor' and they want to remain in the shadows. We will likely never know the whole truth about this atrocity.
I can't think of a punishment severe enough to match his villainy. The excerpts from his book indicate he is a megalomaniac so were I authorized to meet out punishment, I'd start by stripping away all of his assets.
I'n my life I have seldom seen a man who truly deserves to be 'knocked down a peg or two !'
What did we learn? Don't trust "Authorities," who use their positions to serve themselves ...and the world be damned. Fauci harmed many in the 1990s with his medical decisions, but somehow he weaseled his way up to an ultra powerful position, where his erroneous decisions wiped out millions of lives and the economy. He must make restitution and pay for what he did, so it will never happen again. .
Tea Party, ultra-maga Armstrong Williams must be working on a "book" with Styehorse.
Okay, bot.
Rand Paul didn't bother with the required Senate vote. That's not how this works. Now they go into August recess. Keep salivating ....
Fun. We get to watch another year or two of rand meltdowns.
No Senate vote means any contempt charges will be tossed on appeal. Rand gets to drag out his circus for another year or two.
Yes, and it will be a circus—or “circular”— round after round!
Corrupt Bush hack turned Limbaugh-wannabe turned highly paid Sinclair Broadcasting tool has a paid for opinion.
In January 2005, USA Today reported that documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that Williams had been paid $440,000 to promote the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. Williams was hired "to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same." As part of the agreement, Williams was required "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts", and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio spots that aired during the show in 2004. The contract with Williams was part of a $950,000 contract between the US Department of Education and the public relations company Ketchum Inc.
After the USA Today revelations, Tribune Media Services (TMS) terminated its syndication agreement with Williams. In a statement to Editor & Publisher (E&P), TMS stated: "[A]ccepting compensation in any form from an entity that serves as a subject of his weekly newspaper columns creates, at the very least, the appearance of a conflict of interest. Under these circumstances, readers may well ask themselves if the views expressed in his columns are his own, or whether they have been purchased by a third party." In response, Williams initially told E&P that he intended to self-syndicate his column. E&P contacted 10 newspapers listed as clients on Williams's website to ask if they would continue to carry the column; the majority stated that they would not. Williams later told the Associated Press, "Even though I'm not a journalist—I'm a commentator—I feel I should be held to the media ethics standard. My judgment was not the best. I wouldn't do it again, and I learned from it."
On September 30, 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report concluding that the Department of Education had acted illegally in making the payments because the government's role in the public relations effort was not disclosed.
Williams has settled sexual harassment lawsuits, in 1997, 2005, 2017 and 2019 (see wiki).
Will Box-of-Wine Pirro decide to bring a contempt charge? Without having had a Senate vote, it can't go anywhere. Pointless bait - for political points.
Fauci as a government employee was not entitled to any royalties resulting from his work. Any work that he did, as a govt. employee, belongs to the government AKA the people.
If you work for a private company and are tasked with developing X and X is a success and merits a monetary award or reward, that award or reward is given to the employer NOT to the employee who did his/her job for the employer which was to develop X.
The person who develops X is using govt or employers office or lab space to work and uses the employer's ancillary personnel to perform the tasks needed to accomplish X. So usually everything needed to meet the goal is done at the expense of the organization that hired the expert and assigned the task of making X. The product X and financial reward for X belongs to the employer and not to the employee who did his/her job for a salary.
There's a cap of $150K/year. He was entitled to whatever the law and his employment agreements specified. You sound very communist.
Very communist? How? Explain.
as if Fauci didn’t GAIN. funny.
Communist? Really?
I responded - my comment was hidden - happens every time I mention ...
Who cares about what he got paid at work? Granted it was well over what he earned. He made his bucks by investing in questionable therapies and drugs starting during the AIDS crisis. He used his position to push these drugs and therapies that made him money, AS AN INVESTOR.
A Williams is wasting ink. Americans need to look in the mirror. Those who drank the
Fauci kool aid need a remedial course in health. Otherwise the same scenario will repeat.
Any thinking person realizes that the Medical Cartel and their bosses Big P created this
and other fiascos expecting very stupid Americans to comply. They were correct.
The average person is no match for the psychological manipulations that were used. This is bigger than big pharma and the medical system, it is just the first attempt at control. It is bigger than a political party, it is bigger than the known players like Gates. This started decades ago and CBDCs were a part, now coming into focus. We are being surveilled and tracked.
I realize the "average" person, has no clue about health. That has always been true. Not thinking of it as a match, more a level of awareness.
Not different from other breaches, just more egregious.
What about not complying is difficult to comprehend??
A Williams is wasting ink. Americans need to look in the mirror. Those who drank the
Fauci kool aid need a remedial course in health. Otherwise the same scenario will repeat.
Any thinking person realizes that the Medical Cartel and their bosses Big P created this
and other fiascos expecting very stupid Americans to comply. They were correct.
Answers are owed - about the Epstein coverup, about the Iran boondoggle, about the Trump Crime Family's staggering corruption and self dealing, about all of the trump insiders profiting from and influencing policy decisions, about the billions of dollars worth of fraud investigations dropped by Trump's DOJ, about the 15 or so ongoing investigations into Musk companies that just disappeared in January 2025 (along with some of the agencies involved), and much more.
And, then some; https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170
From the very start I felt the whole pandemic was about hawking a vaccine and if you connect the dots it certainly looks that way. Why on earth would anyone ever do a gain-of-function on a virus to make it transferable and deadly? Well one looks to be a hero riding in on a white horse with the life saving vaccine (and becomes obscenely rich). The vaccine was patented a few years before the whole pandemic. Fauci was a big part of the whole devious scheme from A to Z. That's why he cannot honestly answer questions.
Why on earth do people drink the "virus" kool aid. It is a giant fraud, and yes there are
millions of clueless people. It ain't Fauci, look north and gaze into the mirror...
Very well stated. To restore trust, we need a full blown accounting of the mistakes made, the lies told and major restructuring to insure this can't happen again. If accountability comes, I'm afraid it won't be during Trump's presidency.
You'll never get that with with theatrical crucifixions.
Better to pull apart “plandemic” planning.
From Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.”
Played, duped, conned!
May it NEVER happen again!
Call and raise!! Duped by the "virus" fraud
Trust cannot be restored, and it should not be restored. Fear not, and yes it will happen again as long as there are clueless people fearmongering by fictitious virus...
He is as crooked as they come. He pushed remdesevir 'run death is near' when he could find no other umse for it but needed to make a profit on it, surrounded himself with crooked cronies, and found a way to destroy many peoples' lives while raking in profits. He is disgusting.
Few KNOW the elf fraud is getting a HALF million ($$$) dollar pension as well. The highest paid NON elected government servant previously now is getting a $500,000+ PENSION. Talk about being untouchable. The SWAMP is just sooooo DEEP in corruptive protecting of it's own holding NO ONE who should be accountable in the end!
It's hard not to overstate the many facets of damage our country experienced at the hands of this man and his maniacal ego. While on the one hand, America does deserve answers, I'm certain there are others that facilitated or encouraged this deviant 'doctor' and they want to remain in the shadows. We will likely never know the whole truth about this atrocity.
I can't think of a punishment severe enough to match his villainy. The excerpts from his book indicate he is a megalomaniac so were I authorized to meet out punishment, I'd start by stripping away all of his assets.
I'n my life I have seldom seen a man who truly deserves to be 'knocked down a peg or two !'
Nah, the people were willing dupes, Fraudsters have always existed.
Your assessment assumes he was not doing the bidding of others far north.
How could you possibly believe that???
Check out the latest from Dr. David Martin. Great summary of the pandemic. he names names and industries
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kunstlercast-449-dr-david-martin
Stop scapegoating one man - the responsibility lies higher - hint he is in the White House
What did we learn? Don't trust "Authorities," who use their positions to serve themselves ...and the world be damned. Fauci harmed many in the 1990s with his medical decisions, but somehow he weaseled his way up to an ultra powerful position, where his erroneous decisions wiped out millions of lives and the economy. He must make restitution and pay for what he did, so it will never happen again. .