The well-known infectious disease specialist who gained notoriety during the epidemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is being singled out by House Republicans more and more. They repeatedly charge him with misleading Congress.
“So, specifically before your committee and also before Rand Paul over in the Senate, Dr. Fauci has, of course, absolved himself of all funding of gain-of-function,” In an interview with Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, conservative podcaster Benny Johnson stated. “He said he didn’t know anything about it. It is verifiable and demonstrable that he lied. Now, there are codes in Congress. I have a code right here, 18 U.S. Code 1001.”
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“Statements—false statements to Congress,” Johnson noted. “Says you can be imprisoned; says you can be imprisoned for eight years if you lie to Congress. It seems like there has never been a more clear-cut case of some individual lying to Congress.”
“Yeah, we can do it—there could be a referral, but you would refer to the Biden Justice Department,” Jordan replied. “I don’t know that — they’re going to pursue that, but you can do that. You could have one of the committees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee could make a referral. I doubt they will with the Democrats in charge.”
“We could do a referral potentially,” The Republican from Ohio went on. “I would, frankly, prefer just to have Dr. Fauci come back in and take another round of questions here, but we’re building the case. You know, like, we had Dr. Redfield testify, and Chairman Wenstrup did. I thought he was—I thought he was great. As were the other witnesses that were brought in.”
Following his retirement in December of last year, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul delivered scathing remarks to the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci boldly declared in a recent interview that he had no regrets about how he handled the outbreak. But when asked about the COVID-19 epidemic, he was asked to think about what other course of action he would have done.
“Likely, there is no public figure, or public health figure, that has made a greater error in judgment than Dr. Fauci. The error in judgment was to fund gain-of-function research in a totalitarian country—fun research that allowed them to create super viruses that, in all likelihood, accidentally leaked into the public and caused seven million people to die,” Paul, a doctor who frequently disagreed with Fauci during Senate oversight hearings investigating the doctor’s comments and suggestions about the pandemic, stated.
In December 2021, Paul publicly accused Fauci of deceiving Congress and vowed to bring this serious issue before the Biden Justice Department.
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Paul doesn’t think Attorney General Garland will prosecute Fauci for his congressional testimony while serving as the White House medical advisor. He seemed pessimistic in an interview with Fox Business, pointing out that Garland was not impartial in examining Fauci’s behavior.
“We’ve referred him to the Department of Justice, but then again, Merrick Garland is the one now going after parents that go to school board meetings,” Paul said.
Paul continued, “So I don’t have a lot of hope that Merrick Garland is objectively looking at Fauci’s lying,” prior to delivering a caustic 12-word remark on the NIAID director: “Fauci should go to prison for five years for lying to Congress.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declared earlier this year that Fauci would be imprisoned in any “sane system” during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.
“There has been no person who has done more to destroy trust in the scientific and medical community than Dr. Anthony Fauci, who told millions of Americans lies willingly, knowingly, glibly, and supremely arrogantly,” Cruz said.
“Should there be accountability? In any sane system, he would be prosecuted for lying under oath, and he would go to jail for lying under oath to Congress,” he added.
As long as there’s a demo[n/c]rat in charge NOTHING will be done. No accountability will happen. The GOP hasn’t the guts to accomplish anything. I LOVE MY COUNTRY, but I HATE MY GOVERNMENT.