Fauci’s Lawyer Is Big Mad At Future NFL Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers
Tony Fauci attorney David Schertler has had a rough week. He got thrown out of a Senate hearing for interrupting Chairman Rand Paul one too many times. His client pleaded the Fifth 111 times while the entire country watched. The committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt. And now a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback is mocking his client on national sports television.
Schertler’s response to all of this has been a remarkable study in
missing the point.
On Aaron Rodgers: The quarterback went on The Pat McAfee Show and delivered the line that millions of Americans were already thinking — that Fauci is “an absolute coward” for pleading the Fifth while hiding behind a pardon. “I am science,” Rodgers mocked, “and you get up there and can’t answer a question?”
Schertler’s response to this devastating and accurate critique was to tell The Athletic that Rodgers “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” and “should stick to football.”
That’s it. That’s the rebuttal from the lawyer defending the man who told America he was the embodiment of science itself. Not a factual correction. Not a legal defense. Not even an attempt to explain why his fully pardoned client couldn’t answer a single question about his own professional conduct. Just “stick to football.”
He’s big mad at Paul, too:
The contempt response was more elaborate but equally substance-free. Schertler called the 8-5 committee vote “a crude political stunt.” He said Paul had “a personal vendetta.” He said Fauci “committed no crime.” He said Paul is “weaponizing the Justice Department against an honorable public servant.”
What he did not do — what Schertler has conspicuously failed to do in any public statement since the hearing — is explain why a fully pardoned man needs to plead the Fifth. If Biden’s pardon removed Fauci’s criminal jeopardy for the conduct in question, then Fauci has no Fifth Amendment protection. That’s the argument Paul made during the hearing. That’s the argument Obama’s own former Pentagon counsel acknowledged on CNN was legally sound. That’s the argument the contempt resolution is built on.
Schertler didn’t address it. He called it a stunt and moved on.
Here’s the brutal reality that no amount of angry press releases can paper over: Anthony Fauci spent four years telling America that science, expertise, and truth required everyone to follow his guidance without question — and that anyone who pushed back was an anti-science conspiracy theorist threatening public health. Then he sat before Congress under a presidential pardon and refused to answer questions about any of it.
Aaron Rodgers asked what every American is thinking: if you’re “The Science,” what are you scared of, Tony?
Schertler told him to stick to football.
The contempt referral is with the DOJ. Florida’s investigative subpoena is active. The phone data is with Senate Republicans. And Fauci’s lawyer is writing angry emails to sports journalists.
It’s going well for the accountability effort. Less so for the other side.
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