On Wednesday, July 29, Anthony Fauci testified under subpoena before a Senate committee about COVID-19 and repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to answer.

Plenty of Republicans went after him afterward. Anna Paulina Luna went somewhere else entirely.

She posted on X:

"Dr. 'Mengele' Fauci may be protected by a federal pardon but that does not hold against state prosecution and civil lawsuits."

Then she called on the attorneys general and governors of Florida, Texas, West Virginia, and Arkansas to charge him:

"I am calling on the great Attorneys General and Governors of FL, TX, WV, and AR to bring charges against Fauci for crimes against children in exposing them to a vaccine that has now been PROVEN to hurt people. He is and will go down in history as one of the darkest souls who has ever been in federal government. There is NO JUSTICE unless he is held responsible for the crimes HE committed against HUMANITY."

Who Mengele actually was

Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician at Auschwitz. He stood on the platform and chose which arriving Jews went to the gas chambers that day. He performed torture experiments on prisoners, including children and twins. Survivors called him the Angel of Death.

He escaped Europe under a false identity, lived out his life in South America, and died in Brazil in 1979 without ever being arrested or tried.

That is the man a member of the United States Congress chose as her comparison for a retired infectious-disease doctor she disagrees with about a vaccine.

There is no version of that comparison that is acceptable. It cheapens Auschwitz. It insults every family that lost someone there. And it is being used not to teach history but to score a point on social media.

Why it lands differently coming from her

Here is the part that makes this more than one bad post.

In February 2023, The Washington Post investigated Luna's account of her own life. Luna has said she was raised as a Messianic Jew by her father and that she is "a small fraction Ashkenazi."

Three members of her extended family told the Post a different story: her father was Catholic, they were unaware of him practicing any form of Judaism — and her paternal grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany as a teenager in the 1940s. Her uncle handed the Post a photograph of him in uniform. Experts at the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it was consistent with the Wehrmacht.

The story was big enough that her family's rebuke made national news, with comparisons to George Santos.

So: a congresswoman whose relatives say she overstated Jewish heritage, and whose own grandfather they say wore a Nazi uniform, is now using Auschwitz's most notorious doctor as a punchline about an American public health official.

She is not being careless with this history by accident. She has been told about it, publicly, by her own relatives.

And she wants states to prosecute him over it

Look past the Mengele line and the actual demand is worse.

Luna is asking four governors and four attorneys general to bring criminal charges against a private citizen — a man who has already been federally pardoned — on the grounds that a vaccine "has now been PROVEN to hurt people." She offers no study, no finding, no court ruling. She just capitalizes the word PROVEN.

A member of Congress calling for state prosecutors to charge someone because she personally believes they did something is not oversight. It's a demand that law enforcement be pointed at a political enemy. If a Democrat said it about a Trump appointee, every Republican in Washington would call it exactly that.

This is a pattern, not a moment

Luna does this. Repeatedly.

• After the December 2025 shooting at Brown University, an innocent Palestinian student was falsely named online as the attacker and buried in death threats. When Brown removed references to him from its site — the standard move to protect someone who's been doxxed — Luna fed the cover-up rumor to her followers: "I find it very suspicious that information has been removed from Brown University's website following the tragic shooting." The post was seen over 300,000 times. Police later identified the actual attacker as a scientist from Portugal. Luna never answered The New York Times's questions about it.
• In June 2026, chairing a House hearing on the CIA's long-dead MKULTRA program, she asked a witness whether USAID "may have been used overseas" on "prisoners of war" to advance mind control — with no evidence at all, as Mother Jones reported.
• In August 2025 she told Joe Rogan's audience that lawmakers had seen evidence of "interdimensional beings" that "can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have."
• In March 2026 she hosted a delegation of sanctioned Russian officials and gave them a private night tour of the Capitol. An aide said they entered Speaker Mike Johnson's offices through a balcony, unannounced, while he was away. Rep. Joe Wilson — a Republican — said meeting Duma members is like "having visitors of the Third Reich."

That last one is worth sitting with. In March she hosted sanctioned Kremlin officials for a private night tour of the Capitol. In July she called an American doctor a Nazi.

What her district is not getting

Florida's 13th District sent Luna to Washington to work on their lives — the cost of groceries, the cost of insurance, the cost of keeping a roof over their heads.

What they got is a full-time content producer. Interdimensional beings. MKULTRA. A Russian delegation. And now Auschwitz, deployed as an insult.

The Holocaust is not a rhetorical device. Neither is the criminal justice system. Luna reached for both in a single post, on a Wednesday, to get attention.

Source

Ashim Arora, "Who was Josef Mengele? Anna Paulina Luna likens Anthony Fauci to the 'Angel of Death'", Primetimer, July 31, 2026.