Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said that the investigation into the coronavirus pandemic isn’t done with Anthony Fauci, after new revelations about laboratory funding.
Paul made the comments in an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his radio show Wednesday. The senator said that the change of guard at the Department of Health and Human Services meant new evidence was being produced from the pandemic era.
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“They have resisted me for three years. Robert Kennedy has helped me get the records. So has Jay Bhattacharya. This week or next week I’m gonna begin interviewing the people that are on that committee. We’re gonna find out what was the debate, what was the discussion, what were the arguments for sending it to Wuhan, what were the arguments against it,” he added.
“Who made the arguments? And then who ultimately had to sign off on this? It is our belief that Anthony Fauci had to sign the document. We haven’t found the document yet because they’ve either been hidden or destroyed,” Paul said.
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Paul’s feud with Fauci has manifested in numerous rhetorical skirmishes that erupted during congressional hearings. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 until 2022. He was responsible for the U.S. health response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2021, Fauci and Paul traded blows over whether the nation’s top epidemiologist had lied to Congress when testifying that he had not signed off on funding for controversial gain-of-function research. Many believe the risky studies might have been responsible for a laboratory leak theorized to be the source of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Fauci and Paul went back and forth in debate over the evidence.
“Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you’re referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,” Fauci replied.
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Fauci retired from his office and was pardoned by former President Joe Biden pre-emptively against any politically motivated charges that might be filed by the Trump administration. Some have since cast doubt on whether Biden had the mental capacity to sign the pardon and wondered if others falsified the signing.
* Original Article:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/rand-paul-fauci-beck-wuhan
