Rand Paul Confronts Dr. Fauci Again: ‘You’re Trying To Cover Your Ass’
(Infowars) Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) again confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate Health Committee hearing Thursday, demanding the NIAID director acknowledge the NIH funded gain-of-function research or resign.
“Dr. Fauci, I don’t expect you today to admit that you approved of NIH funding for a gain of function research in Wuhan, but your repeated denials have worn thin,” Paul told Fauci, adding, “and a majority of Americans frankly don’t believe you.”
“The facts are clear. The NIH did fund gain of function research in Wuhan despite your protestations.”
“You can deny it all you want,” Paul said, “but even the Chinese authors of the paper in their paper admit that viruses not found in nature were created and yes they gained in infectivity.”
“What we are saying that this was a risky type of research — gain-of-function research — it was risky to share this with the Chinese and that Covid may have been created from a not yet revealed virus,” Paul told Fauci.
“We don’t anticipate that the Chinese are going to reveal the virus if Covid came from their lab. You know that, and yet you continue to mislead. You continue to support NIH funding going to Wuhan. You continue to say you trust the Chinese scientists. You appear to have learned nothing from this pandemic.”
“Will you today finally take some responsibility for funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan?” Paul asked.
Far from accepting accountability, Fauci shot back, “He is egregiously incorrect in what he says.”
Fauci about Senator Paul: "He is egregiously incorrect in what he says."
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 4, 2021
Senator Paul: "History will figure that out on its own." pic.twitter.com/jeY2HKsIaB
