{"id":36152,"date":"2022-08-23T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=36152"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:07:27","slug":"rand-paul-faucis-retirement-wont-stop-a-full-throated-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/rand-paul-faucis-retirement-wont-stop-a-full-throated-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Fauci\u2019s Retirement Won\u2019t Stop a \u2018Full-Throated Investigation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s retirement will not stop a \u201cfull-throated investigation\u201d into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned on Monday following the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announcing the end of his high profile roles come December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci, who also serves as the chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation and as chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/22\/dr-anthony-fauci-announces-decision-to-step-down-in-december-as-republican-control-of-congress-looms\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday that he will leave his roles in December&nbsp;\u201cto pursue the next chapter of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Fauci, 81, originally suggested he would leave his post at the end of Biden\u2019s first term in office, his announcement moves up his retirement significantly to after the midterm elections, as Republicans hope to take control of both the House and Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), however, warned that an early retirement will not stop Republicans in the House from putting the spotlight on Fauci as they investigate the origins of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFauci\u2019s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak,\u201d Paul stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci\u2019s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.<\/p>&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1561751391332438020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Paul, a longtime critic of Fauci, has warned that a GOP majority in the House could lead to such investigations into the origins of the virus \u2014 a topic he has warred with Fauci over.  Paul had a tense exchange with Fauci in November 2021 over Fauci essentially changing the definition of gain-of-function research to better suit his purposes. \u201cWe\u2019re aware that you deleted gain-of-function to the NIH website,\u201d Paul said during the exchange, as it is clear that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did, in fact, fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab:<br><br>You\u2019re simply saying it doesn\u2019t exist because you changed the definition on the NIH website. This is terrible and you\u2019re completely trying to escape the idea that we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from a lab. And what you\u2019ve done is change the definition on your website to try to cover your ass, basically. That\u2019s what you\u2019ve done, you\u2019ve changed the website to change the definition that doesn\u2019t include the risky research that\u2019s going on. Until you admit that it\u2019s risky, we\u2019re not going to get anywhere. You have to admit that this research was risky. The NIH has now rebuked them, your own agency has rebuked them. You\u2019re still unwilling to admit that they gained in function when they say they became sicker. They gained in lethality. It\u2019s a new virus. That\u2019s not gain-of-function?<br>Dr. Richard Ebright told U.S. lawmakers earlier this month that Fauci\u2019s statements on gain-of-function research \u2014 namely, his denials \u2014 have been \u201cuntruthful.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s retirement will not stop a \u201cfull-throated investigation\u201d into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned on Monday following the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announcing the end of his high profile roles come December. Fauci, who also serves as the chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[306,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fauci-e1629155778365.png?fit=700%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36153,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36152\/revisions\/36153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}