WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, angrily confronted Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday in testimony on Capitol Hill, rejecting Paul’s insinuation that the U.S. helped fund research at a Chinese lab that could have sparked the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Paul suggested that Fauci had lied before Congress when in May he denied that the National Institutes of Health funded so-called “gain of function” research — the practice of enhancing a virus in a lab to study its potential impact in the real world — at a Wuhan virology lab. U.S. intelligence agencies are currently exploring theories that an accidental leak from that lab could have led to the global pandemic.
“I have not lied before Congress. I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed,” Fauci told Paul before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, saying a study the senator mentioned referenced a different sort of virus entirely from the one responsible for the coronavirus outbreak.
“Senator Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly,” Fauci said. “And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about.”
He added, “If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.”
It was the latest in a series of clashes between Paul and Fauci over the origins of the virus that caused the global pandemic.
Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci got into another heated exchange at a Senate hearing over Dr. Fauci's past testimony over gain-of-function research. https://t.co/0up2wRn6oL pic.twitter.com/Fls6gAJHPj
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How stupid does Fauci think we are? Gain of function, means taking a virus and enhancing it so it becomes more infectious (to humans) and yet he is denying that taking bat corona viruses and manipulating them, which according to the report made them infectious to humans, was GOF . Yet, Rand Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about, that’s not Gain of Function? That vax must have affected his brain if he thinks that makes sense. I would love him to explain why it’s NOT gain of function. He just wanted to keep denying that it had anything to do with the pandemic. Yes Fauci, you have blood on your hands. It’ll come out one day.
That psychotic little Wuhan lab funder is still roaming our planet at will. Frightening
So money was given the Wuhan Lab… Let it sink…
Once the lab had the money, how on earth does Fauci think he can trust them with it anyway to do exactly the work they said… I would stake every dollar I have that this virus was created in the Wuhan lab and escaped . This virus is NOT natural, read Wades article. Most virologists say it’s a highly unusual virus with characteristics never seen before and more likely manipulated than not.
Bottom line:
Rand Paul agrees With Dr. Faucci that the research funded by the NIH could not possibly lead to Covid-19.
So why the big fuss, why trying to skirt the truth and cause rumors that Faucci somehow contributed to this virus.
Rand Paul and father Ron both life-long Israel haters, holocaust deniers. Now spreading crazed conspiracy junk vs Covid vax. It figures. Meanwhile Dr. FAUCI shut him up and destroyed him.