Fauci's Fifth - A 40-Year Reputation Collapses in One Afternoon, Says America's Leading Media Expert

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

With today's Fauci contempt hearings, we should revisit the reason behind the hearings in the first place. Michael Levine, America's leading media expert called Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before Congress "a shocking and embarrassing disaster" that inflicted irreparable damage on a public career spanning more than four decades. "Dr. Fauci did not merely have a difficult afternoon," Levine said. "He presided over the televised demolition of his own credibility." Fauci's repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment transformed what could have been an opportunity for clarification into a spectacle of evasion, Levine argued. His refusal to answer lawmakers' questions created a devastating public impression - regardless of the legal strategy behind it. [more...]