(Headline USA) Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced this weekend he filed another criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci over the COVID czar’s alleged perjury before Congress.
Newly reported emails show Fauci admitted there were concerns about “unnatural mutations” in the COVID-19 virus despite his many public denials of such concerns. The emails also show Fauci knew “scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments.”
“Highly credible scientists … were concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCov there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted,” Fauci said in a 2020 email to then-Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Department Garrett Grisby.
“Upon considerable discussion, some of the scientists felt more strongly about this possibility, but two others felt differently. They felt that it was entirely conceivable that this could have evolved naturally even though these mutations have never been seen in a bat virus before,” Fauci continued.
However, under oath before Congress, Fauci insisted that he had no knowledge of gain-of-function research being performed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which received funds from the National Institutes of Health.
Asked directly by Paul whether he still claims “the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan,” Fauci said: “I’ve never lied before Congress.”
This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie. That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ. https://t.co/Y191SmMiIr
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 29, 2023
“This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie,” Paul said on X. “That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ.”
Paul admitted that he doesn’t expect Fauci to ever be prosecuted to lying for Congress, saying, “Everything about this is rotten to the core.”
“There’s probably never been a government official caught more red-handed in a lie than this because now he has proved the lie in his own words,” Paul said. “And if we don’t bring him to justice, we’ll never get the controls we need on this type of research to try to prevent it from happening again.”
