Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Fox News interview Wednesday during which he addressed the growing controversy surrounding the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“There’s a lot of evidence that he has a great deal of conflict of interest,” Paul said. “And that if it turns out this virus came from the Wuhan lab, which it looks like it did, that there’s a great deal of culpability in that he was a big supporter of the funding. But he also was a big supporter to this day of saying we can trust the Chinese on this, we can trust the Chinese scientists. And I think that’s quite naïve, and really should preclude him from the position that he’s in.”
Host Laura Ingraham asked Paul if he thought if there was “could there be criminal culpability here, given the repeated failures of Dr. Fauci” or “criminal culpability here of fraud or ongoing collaboration with the Chinese when when he was making excuses for them?”
“At the very least, there’s moral culpability,” Paul responded. “In the research done by the bat scientist in Wuhan, she gives him credit, she lists the exact NIH grant with a 10 numeral disclaimer or ID number, listing the money and thanking the NIH for the money. It’s clearly gain of function. There are several scientists who are in this field, cellular biologists, they all say that taking a SARS virus and adding an S protein to it to make it infect human cells, that is the very definition of gain of function. It’s very dangerous. We shouldn’t be doing it here or there.”
“But Dr. Fauci has denied it to this day, but the private emails and show that he was acknowledging that it was gain of function. Nobody was questioning it,” Paul continued. “The scientific community needs to look at this, because he hides behind this veil of the lab coat that nobody can question him. I believe and by looking at the evidence that it absolutely was gain of function research, and he was funding it. And to this day, he’s still saying he would do it again because he trusts the Chinese scientists.”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
