Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday said Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied again” and “needs to be held accountable” following a report that the National Institutes …
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday said Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied again” and “needs to be held accountable” following a report that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a “bat coronavirus grant” of $3.1 million to a group, some of which went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “Surprise surprise – Fauci lied again And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan. Read this thread and the papers released,” Sen. Paul said Tuesday following news of the report. “I have already asked the DOJ to review Fauci’s testimony for lying to Congress. This report should make it abundantly clear that he needs to be held accountable,” he added in another post: Surprise surprise – Fauci lied again And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan. Read this thread and the papers released. https://t.co/zQizKXLdbd Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 7,2021 I have already asked the DOJ to review Fauci’s testimony for lying to Congress. This report should make it abundantly clear that he needs to be held accountable. https://t.co/PfuketQaWc — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 7,2021 The documents obtained by the Intercept, which contains over 900 pages of material, details the work of the group called EcoHealth Alliance and a grant they received titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” According to The Intercept, the documents “raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has aggressively dismissed.” One of the key details reveals that the $3.1 million bat coronavirus grant given to EcoHealth Alliance included “$599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.
