Dr. Drew trusted Fauci and ‘the experts’ — now he regrets it



When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Dr. Drew was among those who decided to trust the experts — but his initial reaction did not last long.

“At first, I was trying to get everybody to calm down. I could see the panic, the delusionality,” he tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“The part I really got wrong, I said, ‘Just listen to the CDC, listen to Dr. Fauci, I know these guys, let Fauci be your north star, he’ll get us through this,’” Drew explains. “I said that every single time, and that’s the thing I got the most wrong.”


“I was very active in the AIDs pandemic, I treated hundreds, maybe thousands of AIDs patients,” he continues. “He was extremely helpful for me as a practitioner working on AIDs patients. He was a good north star 35 years ago. Now, didn’t work out that way.”

Stein’s own faith in the medical community was rocked when his mother fell ill with COVID, and rather than saving her, the hospital put her on remdesivir against his wishes. She passed away just seven days later.

“I am not a conspiracy theorist when I say this. They wanted more people to die from this because it would make their narrative more true, that this was a deadly thing and that there wasn’t a 99% survival rate,” Stein tells Drew.

“My mom died in my arms. She went from talking to me, and then five days later, she can’t even breathe,” he continues.

“I’m very, very sure you should have lost faith. Public health proved itself to be a catastrophe,” Drew responds. “I can’t even believe the lack of caretaking, the fact that they all responded to centralized authority rather than their ultimate sacred responsibility of just taking care of the person in front of them.”

“It just didn’t seem like they even wanted to save my mom. And I’m not saying that they killed my mom, even though that’s how I personally feel,” Stein says, adding, “This is going to happen again, Dr. Drew.”

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The REAL REASON Joe Rogan shifted toward Christ



Over the course of a few years, famous comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan went from mocking Christianity as a “myth” to telling his audience that “we need Jesus.”

“The difference between science and religion is that science only asks you for one miracle. ‘I want you to believe in one miracle, the big bang.’ And it’s funny because people would be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet, they’re convinced that the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pin,” Rogan said on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

“Instantaneously became everything,” Rogan continued, adding, “I’m sticking with Jesus on that one.”

“I can’t say that I’m surprised,” BlazeTV Host Jason Whitlock tells Anthony Walker on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.” “As their rights to crack jokes get infringed upon, they’ll see the value of a Christian culture, and then someone like Joe Rogan who is just in pursuit of truth will realize, ‘No, this secular culture prevents, blocks you from truth.’”


Whitlock believes another catalyst for Rogan’s change of heart was the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The way it was handled, the foolishness of the science experts, has made people say, ‘Well, man, maybe I’ve been trusting the wrong people or person, and maybe Dr. Fauci doesn’t know more than Jesus Christ,’” he explains.

“I’m with you,” Walker responds. “It’s just inevitable. There’s no other answer that satisfies the ‘Where did I come from? Why am I here? How do I handle my grief? And what happens when I die?' There’s nothing else that answers that other than God’s word.”

“COVID was a turning point for most, where real life starts to hit. That, ‘Wow, the whole world is responding to a virus, and governments are shutting down, and covert and overt policies are being pedaled, like what is going on?’” he says.

“And then, you begin to see the uncovering of Hollywood, and celebrity, and the illicit sex trafficking and porn and all that, like all of this kind of comes open, and you saw thousands, millions, starting to turn to Christ,” he continues, adding, “So it doesn’t shock me.”

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President Trump officially outlaws gain-of-function research



In a massive win for the Make America Healthy Again movement, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning all federal funding — present and future — for gain-of-function research abroad.

The order will also deputize the National Institutes of Health and other agencies to identify biological research harmful to public health or threatening to national security.

As Trump signed the executive order, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a few comments of his own.


“This is a historic day. The end of gain-of-function research funding by the federal government, and also controls by private corporations on gain-of-function studies,” Kennedy said while standing next to the president. “This was the kind of study that was engaged in by the United States military and intelligence agencies, beginning in 1947.”

“By 1969, the CIA said that they had reached nuclear equivalency — that they could kill the entire U.S. population for 29 cents a person,” he continued. “That year, President Nixon went to Fort Detrick and announced a unilateral end to this kind of research — what they call dual-use research.”

Dual-use research, Kennedy explained, was “for vaccination and also for military purposes.”

Nixon then persuaded over 180 countries to sign the bioweapons charter in 1973, which essentially put an end to gain-of-function research across the globe — until the 9/11 and anthrax attacks — which led to the Patriot Act.

“The Patriot Act had a provision, a little known provision in it, that said that although the bioweapons charter is still in effect, and the Geneva Convention is still in effect, U.S. federal officials who violated it cannot be prosecuted,” Kennedy added.

“Now, you hear this and you’re like, ‘Well, they already told us that they were not supposed to be engaging in gain-of-function research, but they were,’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“And they weren’t doing it with someone who you would call maybe our ally. They were doing it with, of course, China, which I just feel like it takes a basic level of intelligence to be like, ‘That’s a bad idea. That’s not a good idea,’” she continues.

And a bad idea it was.

“You’ve got America's health institutions implicated in the development of that man-made virus,” Gonzales says. “It makes you wonder how many more have happened or are on the way that we just don’t know about yet.”

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Sacrificing children on the altar of science: How the COVID-19 response hurt our most vulnerable



When COVID-19 washed up on American shores, everyone, including children, were believed by the top scientists in the country to be at grave risk. However, once the threat to children was found to be minimal, children instead became suspected of being “super spreaders.”

“Empirical evidence was being ignored, and instead, the officials were following theory. They made up all sorts of contrived reasons,” David Zweig, investigative journalist and author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions,” tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

Despite the fearmongering surrounding schools reopening and children’s status as “super spreaders,” the fact that cases went down in places like Europe after children went back to school didn’t phase the scientists.


“What that does suggest, of course, is that children were not super spreaders, schools were not driving the pandemic,” Zweig tells Stuckey. “The point is, the evidence was there that this wasn’t dangerous, this wasn’t increasing cases, and it was ignored, and it was dismissed with these contrived reasons.”

While the mainstream media and “the science” was focused on the potential harm faced by the immunocompromised, what they didn’t seem to care about was how social isolation, masks, and digital learning would affect children in the most formative years of their lives.

“There is something disordered in asking kids to sacrifice on behalf of adults,” Stuckey tells Zweig, adding, “There is something inherently unjust about that.”

“What they aren’t understanding, perhaps, is the incredible harm on so many children, millions of kids, and you have to think about what kind of society, as you said, what kind of society does this to children?” Zweig agrees.

“No one was saved by long-term school closures. No one was saved from masking 2-year-olds. No one was saved by barriers on desks and all this other nonsense. This was only harm. No trade-off. No benefit,” he continues.

“Even beyond the horrors of child abuse,” he says, which he notes became more prevalent during COVID, “there were plenty of kids who became anorexic and bulimic, screen time skyrocketed during the pandemic and never kind of went back down, anxiety, depression.”

"I talked with a lot of mental health professionals for children. Their practices were exploding during the pandemic, and it wasn’t because of people dying, let me be very clear about that. It was directly correlated with kids being kept out of school,” he explains.

Politicians like Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) claimed that their hard stance on COVID was only so strict because it was worth it to save even one life — but Zweig knows that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“You’re taking one or more lives to ostensibly try to save that one life. It was extraordinarily foolish,” Zweig says.

“Toxic empathy,” Stuckey chimes in. “It blinds you to reality and morality, and you ignore the victim on the other side of the moral equation.”

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Dr. Peter McCullough REVEALS why Trump’s WHO withdrawal will 'liberate us’ — and why Fauci’s pardon is extra suspicious



One of President Trump’s first actions as president was withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, and Dr. Peter McCullough thinks it was a great idea.

“The WHO is a global money pit, is what it is. We have plenty of capabilities at the CDC. Our health care is not influenced at all by the WHO in the United States,” McCullough told Laura Ingraham in a recent interview.

Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” while excited by Trump’s action, are curious as to why McCullough believes what he does.

“It’s going to liberate us,” McCullough explains. “The WHO was advancing what’s called a Pandemic Treaty Alliance, international health regulations, that would have constrained us and bound us to what the WHO wants to do with respect to plants, animals, humans.”


“This involved farming, future pandemic response, and it was going to be binding by international law,” he continues. “And as I mentioned, the WHO is expensive. Billions of our taxpayer dollars went into this, and we weren’t seeing the return.”

While McCullough also believes this will help hold those responsible for the devastation to American lives during the pandemic response, one major player has been pre-emptively pardoned: Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“I would love to dive into this with you, because one, the timing of everything, of the pardon, was interesting and of note,” Savage tells McCullough.

“Keep in mind it was a pre-emptive pardon. Pre-emptive meaning that, well, you know, a crime hasn’t been uncovered yet, but there is an intent from the Biden administration to provide this blanket coverage, essentially like what we consider a tail coverage, and it goes back 10 years,” McCullough explains.

“Ten years is almost the exact time when Obama put into place the ban on gain-of-function research, and I think this is going to be the big issue,” he continues, noting that the gain-of-function research began before the ban and was believed to be “grandfathered in.”

While there was never any discord between Fauci and Trump while Trump was in office, recent exposure of Fauci in books like “The Real Anthony Fauci” by RFK Jr. might change Trump’s tune on the scientist.

“So it’s well-delineated. I think the mechanism would be a special prosecutor to investigate Fauci as a target, meaning that, you know, as someone who’s a perpetrator for two major crimes: fraud, that he misled the country intentionally on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, attempted to cover up the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and his role in the creation of SARS-CoV-2,” McCullough explains.

“The next big one was mass negligent homicide,” he continues. “Now, that’s a big one, but by the mechanisms that Fauci worked to suppress all our efforts on treating people early, in preventing hospitalizations and deaths early in the pandemic, and then he relentlessly promoted only one solution: mass vaccination.”

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EPIC RANT: Dr. Fauci pardon is A DISGRACE



Former President Joe Biden issued a pre-emptive pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci before handing the Oval Office over to Trump, leaving millions of Americans wondering why someone who apparently did nothing wrong would need one.

Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” — who tragically lost his mother during the pandemic due to improper medical care from America’s so-called trustworthy medical system — is one of them.

“For me, what was so frustrating is that Joe Biden gave a pre-emptive pardon to Dr. Fauci,” Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” says. “In theory, you’re thinking, ‘Oh well, he’s just trying to protect him from the political persecution that could come from Donald Trump.’”

However, why would someone who did nothing wrong need legal protection?


“But if he didn’t do anything illegal, he wouldn’t need that protection. So giving him that pardon justifies every single thing we said during the pandemic,” Stein says. “What’s so frustrating when it comes to Dr. Fauci is that we know that he was lying this whole entire time, and now he’s going to be protected.”

“People like my mom were not even given proper care because what they said is, ‘There are no applications for COVID other than the vaccine.’ Because the only way they can get an emergency use authorization was if there were no other remedies whatsoever,” he explains.

“Which is not true, because we’ve had pneumonia since the beginning of time. We’ve had respiratory illnesses forever, and we’ve been able to give people medicine,” he continues. “But because they were so dead set on this vaccine and helping Moderna and helping Pfizer, they had to make it so that there were no other remedies, when there are other remedies, and because of that, people like my mom died.”

“Yes, I’m happy Donald Trump is president. But Dr. Fauci can go out there and give false information in order to give us a free vaccine, somehow that’s free, every other medical s*** costs a billion dollars, but somehow the vaccine is not only free, but you get a cheeseburger with it,” he adds.

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Why Biden’s pardons for Fauci, family, and the J6 committee may BACKFIRE



Former President Joe Biden spent his last days in office doing what he does best, which is, of course, nothing good for the American people.

Biden gave pre-emptive pardons to members of his family, Dr. Fauci, General Mark Milley, and January 6 committee members — allegedly to stop Trump from taking swift revenge on them.

“I don’t know about you, but I have a real problem with somebody giving people who work in the government blanket pardons for anything that they might have done wrong. That just doesn’t seem like American justice, and it doesn’t seem like a system where you could hold people accountable for what they’ve done wrong,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells famed attorney Alan Dershowitz.


“If I were one of the people that Biden pardoned, I would be very upset. First of all, it makes it sound like they did something wrong, even if they didn’t, and second, it denies them their Fifth Amendment rights, so they can now be held in front of Congress and investigated completely,” Dershowitz tells Glenn.

“So I don’t think Biden did them any favors, and he also set a dangerous precedent,” Dershowitz continues. “I just don’t understand why Biden did that after violating his own promise to the American public when he said he wouldn’t pardon his own son.”

However, this might be a good thing for President Trump.

“For President Trump, it probably establishes a good precedent because he now has much more flexibility in his pardons he can issue,” Dershowitz explains.

“Look, the most important thing of many important things that President Trump said in his inauguration, one of them is that he wants to put an end to lawfare,” he continues. “If we can end lawfare, then we may see an end to these promiscuous use of pardons as well, because I think the pardons are seen as an antidote to lawfare.”

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‘Made-up boogeyman’: COVID accountability is on its way



Pete Hegseth had a lot of incredible moments on Capitol Hill this week — but Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” believes one of them was more important than the others.

“How many other patriots, how many other people of conscience, we haven’t even talked about COVID and the tens of thousands of service members who were kicked out because of an experimental vaccine,” Hegseth said to Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).

“In President Trump’s Defense Department, they will be apologized to. They will be reinstituted with pay and rank,” he continued. “Things like focusing on extremism, Senator, have created a climate inside our ranks that feels political when it hasn’t ever been political. Those are the types of things that are going to change.”

Hegseth went on to call the “extremists” a “made-up boogeyman to begin with.”


“Finally, justice for facing discrimination, being fired, having your rank stripped, being other than honorably discharged. Finally justice for those who were wronged and those who did the wronging,” Wheeler comments, thrilled.

“I cannot wait for the day that he is sworn in as secretary of the Department of Defense, because I have not heard, you can correct me if I’m wrong here, if I’ve missed someone, I have not heard any other politician with the power to hold accountable those who terrorized us over COVID promise to hold those people accountable,” she continues.

“That may be the most important moment of the entire Pete Hegseth hearing yesterday. Thank goodness he is going to be confirmed. It’s just a matter now of when that will be,” she adds.

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‘It will seal his fate’: Rand Paul GOES OFF on rumor that Biden will pardon Dr. Fauci



Rumors have begun circulating that President Biden will issue preemptive pardons for many people he believes Donald Trump will go after as president — including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“It doesn’t seem like you could do that, but they’ll try it anyway,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells guest Senator Rand Paul.

“I’ve sent referrals, criminal referrals, on Anthony Fauci twice to the Department of Justice without really a response. Merrick Garland hasn’t done his job; he’s probably been the most partisan attorney general we’ve ever had. I will send those referrals again if they preemptively pardon Anthony Fauci,” Paul explains.

“It will seal his fate as the architect, author, and godfather of the pandemic,” Paul continues. “He’s the one that funded it; he’s the one that funded the research in Wuhan; he’s the one that allowed the research not to be scrutinized.”


“There was a safety committee that was supposed to scrutinize dangerous research. It was set up because of fear of exactly this happening. There have been scientists talking about this for 20 years, worried that this is going to happen. Anthony Fauci sidestepped the safety committee and allowed this research to go on,” he explains.

“Then when it came forward that he had done it, he was like, ‘Oh, nothing to see here, we didn’t really do it. Oh, well, we funded EcoHealth, and they funded Wuhan, but oh, nothing to see here,’” he continues. “And then he had the gall to say it wasn’t gain-of-function and it wasn’t dangerous. That’s a lie.”

Which is why Paul doesn’t believe a presidential pardon will do much for Fauci at this point.

“If the president pardons him, I think it’ll just cement his role in history as being the architect of gain-of-function,” Paul tells Glenn, who believes that this is where Trump’s appointed FBI director, Kash Patel, can come in.

“I hope he releases just the raw evidence that has been gathered,” Glenn says. “You know, kind of like the Twitter files, where we can see all the stuff that has been classified that should be seen by the American people.”

“The FBI did do their job. They did a report, and they said that they thought COVID came from a lab, that the virus or the pandemic started with a lab leak, but they haven’t released their report. They’ve been told to declassify it,” Paul says, adding, “I truly believe Kash Patel will look at that.”

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How ‘the science’ is unexpectedly taking us closer to faith



Whether it was drinking wine through masks, cutting out family for refusing to vaccinate, or ratting out neighbors for having company, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in people all over the world taking their faith to an entirely new level.

“Science suddenly became this kind of new god, and it was perhaps embodied in its priest Dr. Fauci, who claimed to be the science and therefore to have authority over all ... aspects of our lives,” Spencer Klavan, author of “Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith,” tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.”

While science itself is what Klavan calls a “noble human tradition of understanding and trying to know about the natural world,” the newfound worship of the practice disfigured its true nature.

“Originally, the scientific revolution that we all know of was not an anti-religious crusade, just the opposite, it was a religious endeavor to know God’s universe,” Klavan says, noting that we were brought up to believe that science is the only truth there is.


The blatant lies peddled by Dr. Fauci and the rest of the Democratic establishment regarding masks, vaccines, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic not only pushed Americans to question “the science” — but how long they’ve been told that it’s the only truth.

“It’s a very different story than we were brought up to believe, and I kind of think we need a hard reset on this,” he says.

Meanwhile, those who do worship science over religion will be for the most part checking off Kamala Harris on their ballot this November — but it’s not stopping Americans from waking up.

“While you have this kind of decrepit establishment endorsing Kamala Harris, you also have things like this article in City Journal that came out recently about all these scientists who are totally shocking themselves by starting to think, ‘Maybe there’s more to the universe than just math and matter in motion,’” Klavan explains.

And perhaps, human beings are much more magnificent than we’ve been led to believe.

“This is also what I think the quantum revolution has unlocked, is this realization that actually, self-awareness and consciousness are irreplaceable things,” he says, adding, “It looked for awhile like everything was just made of meat and we were just chemistry sets, but actually, there's something much more capacious on the other side.”

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