Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican senator, asserts that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s communications contain the truth about his falsehoods.
Paul, who frequently sparred with Fauci before the doctor’s retirement, has sent Attorney General Merrick Garland a criminal referral accusing Fauci of lying to Congress. A criminal referral is a request to prosecute an alleged offense, as Congress lacks the authority to do so.
Paul shared a screenshot of an email posted by RealClearPolitics White House reporter Philip Wegmann as evidence in a social media post.
This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie. That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ. https://t.co/Y191SmMiIr
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 29, 2023
The email “directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie. That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ,” Paul posted.
The screenshot displayed an alleged email written by Fauci, which stated, “The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”
The email expressed concern over “the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”
According to Fox News, in a contentious hearing held in July 2021, Paul accused the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of lying to Congress.
“Let’s read from the NIH definition of ‘gain of function,’” Paul said then. “This is your definition that you guys wrote. It says that ‘scientific research that increases the transmissibility among mammals is gain of function.’ They took animal viruses that only occur in animals, and they increased their transmissibility to humans.”
Paul stated, “How you can say that’s not gain of function – it’s a dance, and you’re dancing around this because you’re trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic.”
Fauci refused and stated vehemently, “Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. … You do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about.”
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