Sen. Rand Paul: Fauci ‘Should Go to Prison’ for Lying to Congress
By Eric Mack From Newsmax
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While disgraced Dr. Anthony Fauci should be held responsible for the deaths of “somewhere between 10 and 20 million” worldwide from the COVID-19 pandemic, at minimum he should go to jail for lying to Congress, according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
“For his dishonesty, frankly, he should go to prison, if you lie to Congress, and you’re dishonest, and you won’t accept responsibility,” Paul told Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM-N.Y. “Now the mistake in judgment, he should just be pilloried. He should never be accepted.
“History should judge him as a deficient person who made one of the worst decisions in public health history — in the entire history of the world –– and that’s how he should be remembered in history.”
Paul released his book “Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up” this past fall, detailing allegations how Fauci helped the U.S. government fund China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“It was ultimately a mistake funding the lab in Wuhan that led to the pandemic,” Paul told host John Catsimatidis. “The Department of Energy has concluded this. The FBI has concluded this. And even a secret committee within the CIA also concluded that it looked like the virus came from the lab.
“But the lab was only able to function because the U.S. funded it, because Anthony Fauci approved of it –– and he’s never been held responsible for this.
“This is probably the worst decision ever made by a public health official in the history of time, really.”
Fauci appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week and Paul noted Fauci was dancing around questions to avoid responsibility, saying “he didn’t remember or couldn’t recall over 100 times,” according to Paul.
“He can’t recall how the decision-making went or what the science is to support this,” Paul continued. “When he was asked what kind of research went on in Wuhan, he said he approved all research, but he said he didn’t read it.
“When they asked him what were the controls, what was the oversight for the research being done in foreign countries, he said he wasn’t aware of how that worked.
“This is sort of the slipshod nature of what was going on, but it wasn’t just a bureaucrat mistake.”
Ultimately, it was Fauci who approved the Wuhan lab and allowed the U.S. to “fund dangerous research –– gain-of-function research, where you allow viruses to be combined and they gain lethality and they gain effectiveness,” Paul told Catsimatidis.
Democrats are complicit, too, according to Paul, as they continue to not just protect Fauci but hail him for his COVID-19 pandemic work.
“But the Democrats have done everything they can to protect him, because I think they see him as a symbol of big government, and if he’s wrong and big government made these mistakes, it goes against their entire philosophy,” Paul concluded.
Fauci has denied any criminal liability for his statements made to Congress.
“Prosecute me for what?” Fauci said last year. “What are they talking about? I mean, I wish I could figure out what the heck they were talking about. I think they’re just going off the deep end.”
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Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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