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Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment when pressed by senators during a hearing over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its origins, accusing the chairman of having an “unhinged obsession” with him and trying to entrap him in questioning. He appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on Wednesday after being subpoenaed by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has led several investigations into Fauci’s handling of the pandemic and National Institutes of Health funding for virus research in China. Fauci said he had testified more than 200 times over his nearly four decades running the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and that he could not answer questions on the advice of his lawyers. “Given Sen. Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only c...

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