The senator told “Hannity” that he will contact the DoJ, following his heated exchange with Dr. Fauci,
Rand Paul has said he will push for a criminal probe into Dr. Anthony Fauci, following his heated exchange with the infectious diseases chief at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. The Kentucky senator claims that the infectious diseases chief lied before Congress about funding for a Chinese lab that some have linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paul agues that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded so-called “gain of function” research—a process involves enhancing a virus in a lab to study its potential impact in the real world—at a lab in Wuhan. In a stern response, Fauci said: “Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about.” The the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director also told the Senate hearing that the research Paul referred to “was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.” NIH and NIAID have said they supported grants to research viruses in bats and mammals, but had never approved any grant supporting gain-of-function research on coronaviruses that would have increased their transmissibility or lethality for humans.
