Kentucky Republican Rand Paul savaged Anthony Fauci on Fox & Friends this week, accusing the health bureaucrat of covering up gain of function research in China and making “one of the worst judgment errors” in modern history. The Senator also discussed the ongoing investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and touched on recent government reports suggesting that two lab leaks in Wuhan may have been responsible for the outbreak.
“I think Fauci deserves culpability and history is going to judge him very poorly because he made the judgment to fund this research. It’s dangerous research,” Paul said, referring to the virus-enhancing “gain of function” research conducted in China and funded by the National Institute of Health.
“He doesn’t want to call it gain of function, but most other scientists do call it gain of function in Wuhan in an opaque totalitarian country. And in the end, there was a leak from the lab and millions of people died worldwide. And this didn’t happen sort of accidentally. The leak may have been accident, but the funding wasn’t accidental.”
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Senator Rand Paul: Holding Fauci Accountable for the Pandemic's Impact
“He does bear responsibility for maybe one of the worst judgment errors in the history of modern medicine or modern public health to fund this dangerous research.”@RandPaul pic.twitter.com/32yMMeFeq8
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In his discussion with the Fox hosts, Paul accused Fauci of skirting protocol to secure funding for the dangerous research. According to Senator, the decision to fund the research was supposed to be examined by a committee but was circumvented by the health bureaucrat. “Tony Fauci actually went around the system,” he said.
“We had set up a system where there’s a committee, they’re supposed to go before a committee to judge whether this was dangerous and whether it should be funded. Tony Fauci exempted Wuhan from the committee. They never went before the committee. And this is extraordinary. The committee that was supposed to provide safety and review this, never looked at the research in Wuhan because Tony Fauci gave them exception.”
Paul added that he felt Fauci holds personal responsibility for the disaster, calling it one of the “worst judgment errors” in history.
“So the thing is, yes, he does bear responsibility for maybe one of the worst judgment errors in the history of modern medicine or modern public health to fund this dangerous research.”
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Sen. Rand Paul: "The most significant source of disinformation during the pandemic with the most influence and greatest impact on people's lives was the U.S. government. The greatest purveyor of disinformation has been the U.S. government." pic.twitter.com/WzQKmjlT7a
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Last week, Paul offered similar comments on Sean Hannity’s show, accusing Fauci of lying under oath during a Senate hearing and calling for him to be prosecuted for deceiving the American people.
It’s a felony punishable by five years in jail. We’ve referred it to the Department of Justice. I don’t think Biden’s Department of Justice will do anything with it but yes, it is very dangerous to have public officials who we need to have trust in coming and lying to us, but he has lied dozens of times. Usually, he tells us that it’s for our own good but yes, he has dissembled, he has obfuscated—there’s other nicer words—but he has definitely lied to the American public and he should be held responsible but not just that. The judgment that we should continue to fund this lab and—that the virus in all likelihood came from the lab.
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