Things got heated during a Senate hearing on Thursday when Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci once again, this time accusing him of trying “to cover your ass” and playing word games over his denials about whether the National Institutes of Health funded shady gain-of-function research in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Gain-of-function research is “a form of genetic manipulation on micro-organisms.” It has been widely speculated that this type of research is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and that Fauci’s National Institute of Health (NIH) has funded research of this magnitude in China.
“What we are saying is that this was a risky type of research — gain-of-function research — it was risky to share this with the Chinese and that Covid may have been created from a not yet revealed virus,” Paul told Fauci.
“We don’t anticipate that the Chinese are going to reveal the virus if Covid came from their lab. You know that, and yet you continue to mislead. You continue to support NIH funding going to Wuhan. You continue to say you trust the Chinese scientists. You appear to have learned nothing from this pandemic.”
“Will you today finally take some responsibility for funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan?” the Republican senator asked.
“Senator, with all due respect, I disagree with so many of the things that you’ve said,” Fauci responded. “First of all, gain of function is a very nebulous term. We have spent — not us, but outside bodies — a considerable amount of effort to give a more precise definition to the type of research that is of concern that might lead to a dangerous situation. You are aware of that. That is called P3CO.” He was referring to the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight guidelines.”
Paul, however, was not having any of it. He told Fauci, “[W]e are aware that you deleted ‘gain of function’ from the NIH website.”
“Let’s get back to the operating framework and guardrails which we operate under. And you have ignored them,” Fauci shot back. “The guidelines are very very clear that you have to be dealing with a pathogen that clearly is shown, and very likely to be highly transmissible and uncontrollable in humans, and to have a high degree of morbidity and mortality, and that you do experiments to enhance that, hence the word ePPP — enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.”
“So, when EcoHealth Alliance took the virus SHC014 and combined it with WIV1 and caused a recombinant virus that doesn’t exist in nature and it made mice sicker — mice that had humanized cells — you’re saying that that’s not gain-of-function research?” Paul questioned.
“According to the framework and guidelines —” Fauci attempted to respond, but Paul cut him off, as if he was far too tired of the doctor’s nonsense by then to continue listening.
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“So what you’re doing is defining away gain of function. You’re simply saying it doesn’t exist because you changed the definition on the NIH website,” Paul said. “This is terrible, and you’re completely trying to escape the idea that we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from a lab. The preponderance of evidence now points to this coming from a lab. And what you’ve done is changed the definition on your website to try to cover your ass, basically.”
“You have to admit that this research was risky,” he added. “The NIH has now rebuked them — your own agency has rebuked them. The thing is that you’re still unwilling to admit that they gained in function when they say they became sicker. They gained in lethality. It’s a new virus. That’s not gain of function?”
Fauci continued to deny that it was gain of function research as he continued to try and shirk responsibility. Finally, Paul ended the exchange by addressing Fauci directly.
“Until you accept it, until you accept responsibility, we’re not going to get anywhere close to trying to prevent another lab leak of this dangerous sort of experiment,” Paul said. “You won’t admit that it’s dangerous, and for that lack of judgment, I think it’s time that you resign.”
Check out the full fiery exchange between these two below.
Sen. Rand Paul to Dr. Anthony Fauci: "I think it's time that you resign." pic.twitter.com/lAsP6Ubf7e
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Fauci needs to be prosecuted. He is in bed with too many domestic terrorist’s and we cannot exclude bill gates from that list. These people are sick, evil and have no place in society.
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Ole Falsey Fauci is at it again. Must be hard maintaining all his lies.
The “Mom in Tennis Shoes” has come a long way with the Democrat Party and she still does not listen to her constituents. She flat told me decades ago that she did not pay attention to postcards or letters sent in to her office. That she was elected for her to use her own mind and did not need to listen to her constituents. Now she’s chairing this proceeding and is still the last person to listen to those of us who pay her way to “represent” us. She and Fauci are two of a kind.
Resign, he should be arrested!
Fake fauci is one of the best con men in history! Is there an award for that? LOL. Scientists should experiment on each other first, before torturing innocent animals or the rest of us! It should be a LAW…
bill gates from that list. These people are sick, evil and have no place in society.
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Just another show for your viewing pleasure folks. Around and around we go. Year after year, same ole, same ole BS act. Nothing is ever done, most decade-long republicans continue to moan and complain while doing absolutely nothing other than run their mouths, and people still continue to vote for them.
His effort to pin him on a fine point doesn’t matter, and until he uses the 14 thousand dead from the injected, he’ll get nowhere. It’s all theatre, and our troops are going to die, then what senator?
What good is all the Proof, regardless of the Subject? No-one is being held accountable. Don’t care what it is. It’s all real nice and wonderful but when will people be held accountable and punished? Same old blather, everyday. It’s gotten tiring. Same ole, same ole everyday on here and infowars. What needs to be done will never get done.
There is only One way to escape it all, Jesus Christ. Period! If people can’t see where we are by now, they may never see it, Till it is to Late.
Malachi 4: 5,6
He has come and you didn’t know it.
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No donations to Paul until he delivers the final blow to that traitor. Until then it’s all for show.
Resign? He belongs in prison!
It’s Time for the U.S. Inspector General to Perform Forensic Audits of Anthony Fauci and the Agencies He Controls
Follow the Money: Fauci’s Agency Dumped Millions into Chinese Entities to Study Infectious Diseases Since 2012, Federal Data Shows
· The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of subgrants since fiscal year 2012, federal data shows.
· 27 of the Chinese organizations, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, received funds from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIH subagency to perform research on infectious diseases, the data shows.
· One of the subgrants from Fauci’s subagency to a Chinese government-owned institution explicitly states that the U.S. will only receive taxpayer-funded research data upon approval by Chinese government authorities.
· A bipartisan group of senators wrote a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday questioning why the U.S. is funding research in a country that has violated international health regulations, has stonewalled inquiries into the origin of COVID-19 and that may be in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/29/faucis-agency-dumped-millions-into-chinese-entities-to-study-infectious-diseases-since-2012-federal-data-shows-1110242/
Until this man is held accountable for what he is done and prosecuted, I don’t consider a “RIP” on Fauci. All the Evidence isn’t doing anything. To me its all Theater. Miley, Afghanistan, Southern border, Biden and Harris, so on and so forth. We don’t have the kind of men today as in our forefathers. Blah, blah, blah is about all it amounts to anymore. Shameful!!!!!