There is a very large cohort of people in this country that don’t care whether or not they are telling the truth.

To even ponder the question “am I telling the truth” would never even occur to them. For people with this mindset, the very concept of truth vs. falsehood is irrelevant.

Dr. Fauci does not and has never run the NIH.

The director of the NIH is Monica Bertagnolli. Her predecessor was Lawrence Tabak, and before that, (the remarkable) Francis Collins.