Sen. Rand Paul and former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci have clashed repeatedly in the Senate in the past over whether the U.S. funded virus "Gain-of-function" research, a charge Fauci adamantly denied.
It was clear the two men didn't like each other, but now Paul is ratcheting it up to another level-he's officially filing a criminal referral with the Department of Justice alleging that the good doctor flat-out lied to him in sworn testimony.
Paul pointed to an email from February 2020 in which Fauci detailed a call with British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar, who was director of the Wellcome Trust at the time.
"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," wrote Paul in the tweet above.
Dr. Fauci clashes with Sen. Rand Paul during Senate hearing: "Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly." https://t.
It's not the first time Paul has tried to alert the DOJ about Fauci-in July 2021, the Kentucky senator wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging the same thing, namely that Fauci lied when he said the National Institutes of Health, where the doctor was the director for the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984-2022, never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That referral seems to have fallen into a DOJ black hole, but Paul feels he now has smoking gun evidence with this email.
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