Fauci: Paul doesn't know what he's talking about 'and I want to say that officially' | TheHill
By: Nathaniel Weixel (TheHill)
looks like the kentucky teabag is gearing up for another run at a job he'll never be qualified to hold...
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Anthony Fauci clashed with Sen. Rand Paul (R) on Tuesday, accusing the senator of lying about the role the National Institutes of Health (NIH) played in funding controversial research in Wuhan, China.
During a Senate Health Committee hearing about the federal COVID response, Paul said the NIH funded illegal gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which created a highly dangerous and transmissible virus able to infect humans.
It's an accusation Paul has made before, and one Fauci has denied. But on Tuesday, Paul implied Fauci had previously lied to Congress, and that he was fully aware of what the Wuhan lab was doing with grant money that came from NIH.
"Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about."
— Dr. Fauci
Paul cited an academic paper that purportedly shows the lab was conducting illegal research to create "potential pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab, not in nature," a claim Fauci angrily denied.
"Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, and I want to say that officially," Fauci said.
"How can you say that's not gain-of-function? It's a dance and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic," Paul responded, cutting Fauci off.
"If the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a subaward ... created SARS-COV-2, that's where you are getting," Fauci said, pointing two fingers at Paul before the senator cut him off again.
"We don't know ... but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those that funded the lab, including yourself," Paul said, adding that while "nobody is saying" the viruses that were created in Wuhan caused the pandemic, the lab was still conducting gain-of-function research that was funded by NIH.
"I totally resent the lie you are now propagating, senator," Fauci said, adding that it is molecularly impossible that research funded by NIH was responsible for SARS-CoV-2.
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I wonder how much a gofundme account would raise in order to have rand's neighbor kick his ignorant teabag ass again, and go to prison for a few days, until his pre-negotiated sentence commutation or pardon could be completed?
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Ron Paul, ignorant asshole.
It is still like I have been saying for twenty years...
RAND PAUL 20NEVER!
I wonder who would win a fistfight between Fauci and Rand Paul? Dr Fauci looks like he may have been a featherweight boxer once upon a time.
The back and forth of accusations and denial between them isn’t serving anyone. In fact, it contributes to the political animosity on a topic that shouldn’t be political at all.
What’s needed is an independent investigation that makes conclusions based on evidence or declares honestly that we can’t know because of a lack of evidence.