Washington, D.C. — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top coronavirus “expert,” testified in a Senate hearing today on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the committee members is Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who is starting to gain a reputation for sparring with Fauci, attacking him on his support of post-vaccine mask usage, continued shutdowns, and more.
This time, Senator Paul was dead set on exposing Fauci’s history with the Wuhan Coronavirus lab in China.
As Newsweek reported last year, Dr. Fauci, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funneled U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan virology lab from as far back as 2014. President Trump halted that funding mid-last year. NIH, at the direction of Fauci, sent more than $7 million to Wuhan to study bat coronaviruses.
As Sen. Paul points out, the research is risky for a potential viral leak, as scientists were “juicing-up” coronaviruses to study bat to human infections.
In response to Sen. Paul’s line of questioning, Dr. Fauci straight-up lied, saying that the United States has not ever given money to the Wuhan virology institute, which is verifiably false.
Sen. Paul suggests that it is entirely possible that the COVID-19 virus was manufactured in China and had been leaked out. The actual origin of the virus has not been fully investigated, although China has suggested that it originated from tainted food via a bat or a pangolin.
In a later interview, Paul said, “There is a lot of evidence that makes me worried about this lab and the fact that people are not being honest, the fact that Dr. Fauci would lie and say that he didn’t give any money to this lab — now maybe his answer is that he gave it to an intermediary who gave it to them, but if that’s his answer, I would think that’s kind of a curious way of saying it didn’t happen when it really did happen.”
It is worrisome to see Fauci’s involvement with the Wuhan lab in the first place, but maybe more so is his comfortability to lie so directly to the Senate.
You can watch Senator Paul’s full takedown of Dr. Fauci here:
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