Before the ever accelerating news cycle takes us back to combat operations with Iran, we should note one more facet of the Dr. Fauci story.That Dr. Fauci invoked the protection of the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday should not surprise anyone. His diaries are damning. Any statement he makes puts him in peril of violating 18 U.S.C. 1001 which penalizes false statements to any federal official.Dr. Fauci made many false statements during the Covid pandemic. He has received a pardon. He does not want to re-enter the world of potential criminal conduct by trying to justify his evasions and falsehoods.INSIDE FAUCI'S PRIVATE DIARY: WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT TRUMP, TV PERSONALITIES AND CELEBRITIESDr. Fauci did a lot of good in his long career. He also did a lot of harm. I trusted him completely at the beginning of the pandemic, but by the time of my third and final interview with him, I was urging him on air to resign as his lack of credibility was harming public health at that moment and long into the future.The interview angered him, which is fine. Journalists should expect to anger people occasionally. It is part of the job.What Dr. Fauci revealed to his diary that day has not yet received much attention. The September 29, 2021, entry shows that he himself suffered from full-blown "Trump Derangement Sydrome ("TDS").My attention has been fixed on this entry on September 29, 2021, and not because it followed the interview with me which angered him, but because, as Dr. Fauci recorded, the interview "triggered him." The doctor’s entry, with its spelling and punctuation, concludes:"This conversation triggered in me some serious thinking about several things including when I actually would want to retire from the untenable situation that I am in of having 10s of millions of people hate me because I stand for the truth. Also, this nonsense about conflating the discussion about gain of function with the lab lead theory is preposterous and totally distracting and draining of everyone’s energy. Richard Ebright with his gain of function obsession is a total a--hole who is pushing this theory because he "wants to be somebody". I am terribly disappointed with Jesse Bloom and David Relman for doing somewhat of the same thing. they have been pushing to stop any gain of function research for a long time and I believe that in some respects they are pushing for an even hoping that this was a lab leak, which the molecular analysis of the viruses that we used in the lab compared to the virus SARS-CoV-2 clearly indicate that it is molecularly impossible for the viruses under the auspices of the NIH grant to have been manipulated into or evolved into SARS-Cov-2. The opposition to me is part of the ‘big lie’– ‘Lock her up’; Trump won the election; January 6th was really a friendly visit to the Capitol; ‘the China virus’ and Trump was correct, ‘Fire Fauci’ since he was wrong all along and so let's discredit him, and so on. Quite frankly, I am finally coming to the realization that our democracy is truly threatened and that it is possible, even likely, that our democracy will crumble with the 2024 election. If trump wins , we are finished . If trump loses, his far right lunatics will likely try again to overthrow the election. And with the attempts to have state legislators (Republican) validate the electoral votes, I am really afraid that they might be successful. Having said all of this, there is no way that I am going to retire before this outbreak is under control."Three observations about this long and rambling paragraph.LEGACY MEDIA COVERS ANTHONY FAUCI DIARY BY CRITICIZING DONALD TRUMP INSTEAD OF FAUCI'S DISHONESTYFirst, I had urged Dr. Fauci on air to retire because people didn’t trust him. He resisted this on air, but then admits the truth of the charge in his diary. When "10s of millions of people hate" you, and you are a public health official, it’s time to step aside.Second, his contempt for President Trump leads him to ridiculous "TDS"-driven excess such as the alarmism about our democracy. That’s a left-wing talking point that has never been remotely true, but he believed it which underscores his susceptibility to legacy media narrative. Again, if you are a Democratic senator or official, repeating left-wing nonsense for your base is part of the job. But public health bureaucrats are supposed to function without absorbing the crazy rhetoric of either extreme.Finally, this entry is not getting much attention because of the presence over the Manhattan-Beltway legacy media, not of an Iron Dome or a Golden Dome, but of a left-wing "Democrat dome" that destroys or at least partially disables incoming bad stories for Democrats and Democrat-adjacent officials and media figures.From the national security peril of Secretary Clinton’s private server, to the idiocy of the Steele Dossier and Hunter Biden’s laptop, to the absurdity of the Judge Merchan trial of Donald Trump in New York City and the Javert-like actions of Jack Smith, to the Robert Hur tapes and more, the stories that blow up beloved narratives of the left just don’t hit the legacy media with much if any impact. The Democrat Dome works.The "Democrat Dome" is a remarkable, a "platinum dome" that almost never fails to at least minimize if not totally destroy such "bad for Democrats" stories. It also works to intercept most good news for President Trump. Its effectiveness has been near 100%.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONThe Manhattan-Beltway legacy media’s Democrat dome has been showing signs of stress and failure in recent years. Bari Weiss has helped slowly turn CBS News into a fifth column for objectivity within the dome’s coverage area, and the continual bombardment by new media of great news stories on the Democrat dome is coming close to overwhelming it for good.The final bit of public service Dr. Fauci is providing is this latest barrage on legacy media’s credibility. Its many figures named in the diaries obviously won’t want to cover the diaries and the numerous sub-stories contained within them.But that’s not going to work. Too many parents have too many children penalized by the awful public policy peddled by Team Fauci for the story to pass. Dr. Fauci may have in fact launched the most devastating fusillade at the Democrat Dome of the many that have marked the decade of Trump.Now back to the war and what should be a massive escalation by American and allied forces.Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show" heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcasting. 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