Legal experts said Dr. Anthony Fauci made a legally smart but politically damaging choice by invoking the Fifth Amendment as the GOP eyes a contempt vote.

Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before a Senate committee Wednesday morning, days after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than 1,000 pages of his diaries.

The former top health official said he would invoke his 5th Amendment right not to testify to avoid the possibility that Republicans might try to prosecute him for perjury.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and other Republicans grilled Anthony Fauci about the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Ex-health chief cites self-incrimination rights amid renewed Covid origins dispute

Former US Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Republican-led Senate hearing on Wednesday, declining to answer questions about his role in…