Must Watch: Is Fauci Quitting To Avoid Criminal Charges? Senators Warn Him There Is No Place He Can Hide

By Pamela Glass | Thursday, 25 August 2022 09:30 AM
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Must Watch: Is Fauci Quitting To Avoid Criminal Charges? Senators Warn Him There Is No Place He Can Hide

Two of Dr. Anthony Fauci's biggest critics are sounding off on his declared retirement, pledging that him leaving his government position wouldn't thwart investigations into his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as his involvement in research funding at the Wuhan lab that many say is where the virus originated.

In interviews with Fox News Digital, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., expressed no surprise at Fauci's Monday statement that he would retire in December and claimed he was making the intentional choice to leave after the November midterm elections in which Republicans hope to win control of Congress.

"I think it's no coincidence that he's decided to step down right after the election," Paul stated. "I think he, like many people, perceives that the Republicans will take over at least one house of Congress and that there will be an investigation into his wrongdoing."

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"I think that the pandemic and the origin of the pandemic should be explored. It hasn't been investigated so far. And I think the preponderance of evidence points to it coming from a lab," he went on. "This is a lab that Dr. Fauci personally funded through the NIH, personally approved of it, and it's also research that never underwent the scrutiny of the pandemic virus committee that should have been looking at this."

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Johnson repeated Paul's sentiment on the timing of Fauci's departure and called his handling of several worldwide health crises throughout his decades-long tenure "a miserable failure."

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"It doesn't surprise me in the slightest," he stated. "I interpret it as Dr. Fauci trying to get out of Dodge… That's the simplest explanation."

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"I think he's done immeasurable harm in his position, not only during the COVID response, which I think was a miserable failure, but I would argue during the whole response on AIDS as well," he continued, referencing Fauci's role in the U.S. government's response to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.

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Both senators blamed Fauci, 81, for trying to "cover-up" the National Institutes of Health's role in funding coronavirus research before the pandemic, and when questioned if there would be investigations should Republicans win control of the Senate, both committed to getting to the bottom of where the coronavirus originated and if U.S. funding played a role.

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"Without a doubt," Johnson announced when questioned regarding the possibility of Senate investigations taking place.

Paul went further into detail, stressing that a possible probe needed to look into why funding for research in China wasn't questioned, considering the level of danger associated with it.

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