Posted on 07/20/2021 9:28:26 AM PDT by RandFan
Top government epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul traded accusations of "lying" about gain-of-function research at a Tuesday Senate hearing, continuing the long-running feud between the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director and the Kentucky senator.
Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky are also likely to face questions at a on whether the U.S. should bring back health measures like mask mandates as the delta COVID variant spreads around the country.
In his questioning of Fauci, Paul stepped close to the line of accusing Fauci of lying to Congress in previous testimony in which he said that the NIAID had never funded gain-of-function research in China. Citing a paper on research about bat coronaviruses, Paul said that U.S. money had essentially gone to the hazardous and controversial research – an assertion Fauci strongly objected to.
"I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement," Fauci said. He added that the research Paul referenced was "judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function."
Fauci added: "You do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially."
Paul's response was that the NIH's judgment "defines… away" work that essentially was gain-of-function."
"You're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility," Paul added
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One thing is certain, ONE OF THEM IS TELLING A LIE.
Who is the LIAR?
One thing is certain, ONE OF THEM IS TELLING A LIE.
Who is the LIAR?
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The liar is likely the one who has the most to gain and/or the most to hide.
What would Rand have to hide?
It isn’t a lie if he believes it.
“What would Rand have to hide?”
Not a single thing.
Fauci..."You're implying that WHAT WE DID is responsible for...."
LOL, yeah, I figured you were saying that rhetorically! Fauci is pissed his emails got released and his private and public comments scrutinized! He’s proven himself to be a liar!
Saint Fauci lies with every breath he takes - Fauci is the Bernie Madoff of Medicine.
Paul may once again get “roughed up” by these POS communist thugs.
BP going up.
Fauci actually admits he was into Gain of Function...Go almost to the end...
Fauci...”You’re implying that WHAT WE DID is responsible for....”
Ooh....great catch!
I haven’t watched it, but the toad toasted himself, if he said this.
Biden: Dr. Fauci, You lose, you're finished!
Paul should get Peter Daszak up there to testify,it was he whom Fauci turned to,of Ecco Health alliance when Obama shut down Faucis Gain of Function research in this country.
Fauci gave funding to Daszak who went to China where the Gain of function was carried out with Bats.
I believe there is a video on Daszak talking about the Gain Of Function research.
Fauci should be charged with perjury and prosecuted for all the deaths from this virus
As posted on the other thread:
In a sane world, this little commie SOB would be all decked out in a gorgeous prison-orange jumpsuit and in a cell awaiting a death penalty sentence for treason, mass murder and crimes agains humanity.
Sounds to me Senator Paul gave Fauci the rope to hang himself. Time will tell!
Fauci is lying.
His lips are moving.
A politician vs a bureaucrat. How far can it go? I truly home it goes somewhere other than this show trial
That’s the key. Paul pressed Fauci on whether Wuhan did gain of function reseach with US grant money. He described what they did, pointed out the grant and read the definition of gain of function. Fauci had previously said they DIDN’T support Wuhan gain of function.
So Fauci throws out the straw man, saying that Paul was saying that the gain of function described developed Covid-19. Paul stated that was not what he was asking, but Fauci talked over him.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/fauci-once-argued-viral-experiments-worth-the-risk-of-pandemic/
Obama shut down gain of function research in 2014.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/us-halts-funding-new-risky-virus-studies-calls-voluntary-moratorium
Fauci was determined to restart it and did so in 2017 without Trump's knowledge or approval.
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/12038/20210531/report-reveals-fauci-kept-trump-administration-in-the-dark-regarding-experiments-that-created-pandemic.htm
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