House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan says Republicans are building their case against Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, specifically before your committee and also before Rand Paul over in the Senate, Dr. Fauci has, of course, absolved himself of all funding of gain-of-function,\u201d conservative podcaster Benny Johnson said in an interview with Jordan. \u201cHe said he didn\u2019t know anything about it. It is verifiable and demonstrable that he lied. Now, there are codes in Congress. I have a code right here, 18 U.S. Code 1001.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStatements\u2014false statements to Congress,\u201d Johnson noted. \u201cSays you can be imprisoned; says you can be imprisoned for eight years if you lie to Congress. It seems like there has never been a more clear-cut case of some individual lying to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we can do it\u2014there could be a referral, but you would refer to the Biden Justice Department,\u201d Jordan responded. \u201cI don\u2019t know that \u2014 they\u2019re going to pursue that, but you can do that. You could have one of the committees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee could make a referral. I doubt they will with the Democrats in charge.\u201d
\n\u201cWe could do a referral potentially,\u201d the Ohio Republican continued. \u201cI would, frankly, prefer just to have Dr. Fauci come back in and take another round of questions here, but we\u2019re building the case. You know, like, we had Dr. Redfield testify, and Chairman Wenstrup did. I thought he was\u2014I thought he was great. As were the other witnesses that were brought in.\u201d
\nFauci claims that, because the GOP has called for his prosecution, he has received death threats.
\n\u201cI mean, they don\u2019t like to have me getting death threats all the time. Every time someone gets up and spouts some nonsense that\u2019s misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies, somebody somewhere decides they want to harm me and\/or my family,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the part of it that is unfortunate.\u201d
\n\u201cThe rest of it is just insanity, the things they\u2019re saying. But it does have a negative effect when people take it seriously and take it out on you and your family,\u201d he added.
\nSen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican, sent Fauci a harsh message after his retirement in December of last year.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Fauci\u2014who said he had no regrets about his handling of the pandemic\u2014was asked if there was anything he would do differently about the COVID-19 outbreak.
\n\u201cLikely, there is no public figure, or public health figure, that has made a greater error in judgment than Dr. Fauci. The error in judgment was to fund gain-of-function research in a totalitarian country\u2014fun research that allowed them to create super viruses that, in all likelihood, accidentally leaked into the public and caused seven million people to die,\u201d said Paul, who frequently clashed with Fauci during Senate oversight hearings into Fauci\u2019s responses and recommendations regarding the pandemic.
\nPaul accused Fauci of lying to Congress in December 2021 and said he would be referring that case to the Biden Justice Department.
\nIn an interview with Fox Business, Paul acknowledged that he does not \u201chave a lot of hope\u201d that Fauci will face charges from President Biden\u2019s attorney general, Merrick Garland, who he claimed is not going to be \u201cobjectively looking\u201d at the chief White House medical adviser\u2019s congressional testimony.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve referred him to the Department of Justice, but then again, Merrick Garland is the one now going after parents that go to school board meetings,\u201d Paul said.
\nPaul continued, \u201cSo I don\u2019t have a lot of hope that Merrick Garland is objectively looking at Fauci\u2019s lying,\u201d before making a pointed 12-word statement about the NIAID director: \u201cFauci should go to prison for five years for lying to Congress.\u201d
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\nAt the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Fauci would go to jail under any \u201csane system.\u201d
\n\u201cThere has been no person who has done more to destroy trust in the scientific and medical community than Dr. Anthony Fauci, who told millions of Americans lies willingly, knowingly, glibly, and supremely arrogantly,\u201d Cruz said.
\n\u201cShould there be accountability? In any sane system, he would be prosecuted for lying under oath, and he would go to jail for lying under oath to Congress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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