Rand Paul: “We Have Referred Anthony Fauci to DOJ for Prosecution”

Republican Senator Rand Paul confirmed he had referred Anthony Fauci for the prosecution to the DOJ for prosecution.

Paul said the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief lied during his testimony before Congress, Breitbart reports.

Paul said he initially gave Fauci the benefit of the doubt in 2020, deeming Fauci a “disinterested public health figure.”

But after hearings and further interactions, Paul concluded Fauci was a “dishonest” individual who had tried to cover up his initial response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Paul also highlighted evidence in an email featuring Fauci summarizing a phone call in early 2020.

“This is when they’re just beginning to look into the pandemic. And in that email, he basically says, ‘Yes, we’re suspicious that this could be a manipulated virus because it came from a lab in Wuhan, where they do gain of function research,’ and he describes the research,” Paul said.

“Well, this directly contradicts everything he said in the committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie,” he said.

“That’s why we ended up referring Fauci again this week to the Department of Justice for prosecution for lying to Congress,” Rand Paul revealed.

Paul also pointed to an “exchange of emails between Anthony Fauci and half a dozen prominent international virologists, and these emails go back and forth.”

“These virologists from around the world are saying they’re looking at the genetic sequence of COVID-19, and they find that there are some striking, strikingly unusual characteristics of it that make it look like it’s been manipulated in the lab,” he said.

“And this band of close virologists that are his close buddies–and these are all people who have been proponents previously of gain of function research, creating viruses that don’t occur in nature to experimentation — they all tell him it looks manipulative,” he added, explaining that they then had a phone call discussing it on February 1, 2020.

“So he [Fauci] summarizes the phone call, about a day later, and it’s in an email that they have never released to us, but then finally was obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and through the House involvement through threat of subpoena,” Paul explained, adding that these are things he has been trying to get out to the public for two years.

In the email, Fauci summarizes the call and “describes the worry among all these virologists, himself included — he’s not a virologist, but he also has worries and is worried that it looks like it’s been manipulated,” Paul said.

“And this is especially suspicious because we know they do gain of function research in Wuhan, and he describes the research,” the senator continued.

In simpler terms, lawmakers have proof that Fauci funded this research and that he acknowledged it.

However, Fauci told Congress he had never funded gain of function research, which Paul said is a “lie.”

Paul said Fauci had attempted to cover his lie by altering the definition of gain of function, which he questioned him about during a November 2021 hearing.

“They have tried to define away the problem. The other thing they’ve tried to say is that it only counts as gain of function research if it’s a human virus,” Paul said.

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