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Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher<\/a> railed against former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci just days after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a Senate hearing over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

During Friday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s “Real Time,” Maher called out Fauci for telling “actual lies” about the origins of the virus responsible for over seven million confirmed deaths worldwide following Fauci\u2019s Senate hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“He was caught in actual lies,” Maher said, adding, “The big issue to me is the origin of this, which is very important. How did it start?”<\/p>\n

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The comedian pointed to Fauci\u2019s previous assertions that the virus originated through animal-to-human contact at a wet market in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n

“He was telling people up front when it first began [that] it was from the wet markets. It could not \u2014 that’s a conspiracy theory \u2014 if you say it escaped from the lab,” Maher said.<\/p>\n

“And he knew better,” Maher continued. “Because we have him in his diary telling us what he was saying to other scientists, who were saying, \u2018No, absolutely.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Fauci for comment.<\/p>\n

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Maher went on to point to the controversial theory that the virus was the result of either an accidental or intentional leak from a Chinese laboratory in the same city where the first cases originated.<\/p>\n

He also blasted Fauci over the crux of his hearing<\/a>, in which he was questioned regarding the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\u2019 funding of “gain-of-function” research in China.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital previously covered Fauci\u2019s vehement denial that the controversial research method \u2014 which involves scientists altering the genetics of a virus to better understand and treat it \u2014 led to the samples breaking free from the Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“I would always have said, don’t do it, but it’s a viable debate,” Maher said, referring to the “gain-of-function” research method. “It’s a reasonable debate \u2014 should we soup up something that’s bad, this bacteria, to study it? Maybe if it got out it would be even worse. I think that’s what did happen.”<\/p>\n

In June 2025, the World Health Organization released a report<\/a> in which officials determined “the weight of available evidence \u2026 suggests zoonotic spillover \u2026 either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.”<\/p>\n

Maher then challenged the controversy surrounding the lab leak theory<\/a>, which has been supported by President Donald Trump<\/a>, and suggested the outcry surrounding its merit was largely due to social issues \u2014 not scientific evidence.<\/p>\n

“We could have had that debate in a rational way,” Maher said. “We didn’t want to do that. Because why? Because we make everything about race. And this is one of the repercussions in this.”<\/p>\n

Maher added that the pandemic brought a racial stigma surrounding the lab leak theory, creating an unfounded taboo on the topic.<\/p>\n

“You couldn’t say it escaped from the lab, because that was the racist point of view somehow \u2014 that the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this because it escaped from the [lab],” Maher said. “It was ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

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“But that is where they went,” the comedian continued. “You were racist if you said this escaped from a lab. I think we’ve morphed from a place where we want to obviously not be prejudiced against anybody, to where people of color can never do any wrong.”<\/p>\n

Maher\u2019s criticism of Fauci<\/a> marks a notable break from his fellow left-leaning counterparts in media, who have historically stood behind the doctor.<\/p>\n

“Once again, Bill Maher<\/a> is willing to level with the country in a way the liberal, elitist media never would,” Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters<\/a> at the Media Research Center<\/a>, told Fox News Digital. “The press should be capable of calling balls and strikes.”<\/p>\n

“But when it comes to most things and their dear Saint Fauci, they must protect him at all costs by either explaining away his damaging diary entries<\/a> or not covering them at all,” he continued. “The media have made the decision to be joined at the hip with Fauci, even as his credibility has dropped off a cliff.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-breaks-left-hammer-anthony-fauci-explosive-senate-hearing <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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