Fauci’s return to the head­lines could cause headaches for Trump and Biden

Antho­ny Fau­ci will tes­ti­fy before Con­gress on Mon­day, bring­ing the con­tro­ver­sial doc­tor back into the news cycle and poten­tial­ly rais­ing ques­tions that nei­ther pres­i­den­tial cam­paign wants to answer.
Fau­ci, who for many was the face of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, retired in late 2022, but he has been dragged into a scan­dal involv­ing his for­mer aide David Morens, who bragged in sub­poe­naed emails about skirt­ing open records laws for infor­ma­tion relat­ed to the virus’s ori­gins.
House Repub­li­cans, and some Democ­rats, will grill the doc­tor before the cam­eras on June 3 as they seek his phone and email records, but the renewed inter­est in Fau­ci may be bring back unpleas­ant mem­o­ries for both Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for exam­ple, used an appear­ance at last weekend’s Lib­er­tar­i­an Nation­al Con­ven­tion to attack Trump’s pan­dem­ic response.
“He was ini­tial­ly very reluc­tant …