WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. The committee discussed efforts to safely get back to work and school during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said that Dr. Anthony Fauci should go to prison for his “dishonesty” regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and accused the former U.S. chief medical adviser to the president of lying to Congress.
“For his dishonesty, frankly, he should go to prison,” Paul said on The Cats Roundtable radio show on WABC. “If you lie to Congress, and you’re dishonest, and you won’t accept responsibility. For his mistake in judgment, he should just be pilloried. He should never be accepted.”
Later, he added, “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.”
He then accused Fauci of working with a lab in China to develop the Covid virus, which killed “somewhere between 10 and 20 million” worldwide.
Paul accused Fauci of deciding to “fund dangerous research — gain-of-function research, where you allow viruses to be combined.” Paul then said that he should “without question” be in jail.
Fauci and Paul have a history of disagreements about the Covid-19 pandemic since Paul has repeatedly accused Fauci of lying about it. As the virus became politicized and more politicians like Paul accused Fauci of lying, the former White House chief medical adviser came under intense scrutiny.
Fauci has repeatedly denied funding “gain of function research” as the head of the National Institutes of Health.
“There’s no response to that craziness,” said Fauci, regarding all the rumors, on an interview with CNN. “I mean, prosecute me for what? 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.”
He called the people who wanted him to be in jail “irresponsible.”
“It doesn’t make any sense to say something like that, and it actually is irresponsible,” he said.
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