Photo: Bloomberg
While Dr. Anthony Fauci was being grilled by lawmakers during a House subcommittee hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday (June 3), a man sitting behind him heckled him and kept making faces.
The heckler, who was eventually ejected from the hearing, was later identified as Brandon Fellows, a Trump supporter who participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2001. During the riot, Fellows smoked weed in Senator Jeff Merkley's office. He was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding and entering and remaining in a restricted building and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.
Fellows was released on May 20.
After the hearing, Fellows updated his cover photo on Facebook to a screengrab from C-SPAN of himself making a face behind Dr. Fauci during the hearing.
After the hearing, Dr. Fauci spoke to CNN's Kaitlan Collins about Fellows and his antics during the hearing. Fauci said that he didn't hear what Fellows said but was told that somebody sitting behind him had recently been released from prison.
"What's somebody like that doing at a hearing about COVID?" Fauci wondered.