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Ashley B. Moody: “Many recommendations and their accompanying mandates…”

Featuring: Ashley B. Moody, Republican | U.S. Senate from Florida

'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies

Published July 30, 2026 | Video Starts at 09:38

That conclusion was the lockdown mask and social distancing. Advice ministered by federal agencies and implemented by certain local, state and federal agencies was not based on the best available scientific data. In fact, Many recommendations and their accompanying mandates departed significantly from available research. Again, people from all walks of life, all political persuasions, that is what they found. (09:38–09:46)

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Asserts that many COVID-19 recommendations and mandates significantly deviated from available research.

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“When Congress finally asked you [Dr. Fauci] in 2024 what science supported that evidence, six, six foot distance rule for Covid, you…”
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“This is the same grant that funded the work on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute on Virology.”
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“I was the attorney general in Florida who fought back against the lockdowns, the school closures, the church closures.”
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“We actually empaneled a grand jury of people of all walks of life, all political persuasions.”
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“We are now called the free state of Florida.”
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“The trust the American people place in our public health institutions and what happened to that trust during COVID is important.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 03:00-03:07
“On March 8, 2020, you [Dr. Fauci] appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss the spread of COVID 19.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 04:29-04:35
“Just a few weeks later, the CDC released its guidance recommending that Americans wear masks in public.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 05:12-05:18
“In April 5, 2020 interview on CBS said, Every time I get to that podium in the White House briefing room, I always essentially plead with…”
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“By 2022, the consequences of prolonged COVID lockdowns on our children were clear.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 07:33-07:39
“We’re still the only state to have empaneled a grand jury.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 09:17-09:23
“The grand jury's conclusion was the lockdown mask and social distancing advice...was not based on the best available scientific data.”
'You Said So Yourself In Your Diary!': Moody Confronts Fauci Over COVID-19 Mask, Vaccine Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2026 | 09:26-09:31
“This is the pardon you have heard so much about.”
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“The only other person that got a pardon like this, I believe, had a last name of Biden.”
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“2014 was also the year that the NIAID or NIH began funding EcoHealth alliances Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence grant.”
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“The critical issue driving your [Dr. Fauci's] initial recommendation to the American public was scarcity, logistics, not medical evidence.”
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“You bear no responsibility for [the American people's] collapse in trust of their government?”
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