Things just got very bad for Fauci

Republicans Reveals Fauci Investigation ‘Not Going By The Wayside’
Carmine Sabia, May 30, 2023

Sen. Rand Paul issued a brutal statement to Anthony Fauci, the country’s former lead immunologist who declared recently he had no regrets about the way he handled the pandemic.

During an interview, Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since Ronald Reagan’s first term in the early 1980s, was asked if there was anything he would do differently regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I’m the first to admit I’m far from perfect, but when you say do over, you know, I really can’t see something that I would do completely over,” Fauci said.

Paul, a Kentucky Republican, was not happy with Fauci’s remark.

“Likely 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 — fund research that allowed them to create super viruses that, in all likelihood, accidentally leaked into the public and caused seven million people to die,” Paul said.

“Think about it. This is right up there with decisions, some of them malevolent or military, to kill millions of people,” Paul said. “This is accidental, but it goes to judgment.”

“Talk about errors. You think he might apologize to the world for funding research that allowed superviruses to be created in a lab – a lab that was not properly outfitted for safety, that people were already reporting was dangerous – to support that kind of research, and then to look the other way and say, ‘Nothing to see here,’ and to cover it up,” Paul noted.

“For the last two years, he’s been covering his tracks, but we’ve caught him red-handed, and he won’t get away,” the GOP senator said.

“Historically, he will be remembered for one of the worst judgments in the history of modern medicine,” he said, going on to say he planned to try and hold Fauci “accountable” for funding the research.

“I will not only hold Dr. Fauci accountable, but we will also finally investigate why your tax dollars were sent to fund dangerous research in Wuhan,” he said.

Alabama GOP Rep. Jerry Carl, who previously suggested that Fauci may have profited financially from his COVID-19 guidance, said Republicans’ investigation into Fauci will “not go by the wayside.”

At the time, Carl said, “My business side of my brain tells me there is more to this,” he said. “My common sense is it’s going to be well-covered up, I should say. Us getting an answer is not necessarily expected. But with that said — we have so many bureaucrats that run so much of the government. I think it is a fine opportunity for us as taxpayers to ask our bureaucrats, ‘Did you make money off of this?'”

Carl said this week that those efforts on Fauci were still on House Republicans’ radar.”It’s virtually impossible to get access to his private funds and how he invests,” Carl said. “I was the first one to bring up the fact, and I’ll never forget it, riding down Airport Boulevard, that there is a financial interest here. You know, that’s what this is about a financial interest. It’s not going by the wayside. There’s so much flying around up here. That was my biggest fear in another conversation I had with you — I don’t want to chase too many rabbits. I want to focus on three or four. Let’s get those accomplished and move on. But it seems to be a totally different scenario up here. Everything is being investigated. Everything is being looked at. And the American public wants it that way. I’m not saying that.”

“But it’s hard. I’ve got three committee meetings going at the same time. I’m literally — thank God they’re all on one hall — and I’m running from door to door for about three hours trying to make these committee meetings because there is just so much going on,” he added. “We had 34 committee meetings — not me personally — held in one day, one day. We’re looking into stuff. We’re talking about stuff.”

Anthony Fauci to join Georgetown University as professor
NBC Universal
MEGAN LEBOWITZ
Updated June 26, 2023 at 7:35 PM

Dr. Anthony Fauci is joining the faculty at Georgetown University in his first position after a decades-long government career that included a leading role during the Covid pandemic.

Starting next week, Fauci will be a professor at the school of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He will also work in the McCourt School of Public Policy.

“I am delighted to join the Georgetown family, an institution steeped in clinical and academic excellence with an emphasis on the Jesuit tradition of public service,” Fauci said in a statement Monday. “This is a natural extension of my scientific, clinical and public health career, which was initially grounded from my high school and college days where I was exposed to intellectual rigor, integrity and service-mindedness of Jesuit institutions.”

Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022. He was also chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.

Fauci was a top researcher focusing on infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika. He quickly became a household name in March 2020 during the rapid spread of Covid-19.

But he was also a frequent target of conservatives who were critical of his Covid safety recommendations. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, this month referred to a “Faucian dystopia” when describing aspects of the pandemic, while former President Donald Trump, has called Fauci a “disaster.”

When announcing in August 2022 that he would be leaving the federal government, Fauci did not specify any next steps, though he said he was not retiring.

"I want to use what I have learned as NIAID Director to continue to advance science and public health and to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to face future infectious disease threats," Fauci said in an Aug. 22 statement.

Fauci, who received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross, has several personal connections to Georgetown University. He and his wife, Christine Grady, were married in Georgetown’s Dahlgren Chapel, and Grady earned her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees at Georgetown. Additionally, their three daughters were born at Georgetown Hospital.

"I ask myself, now, at this stage in my life, what do I have to offer to society?" Fauci said in a Q&A accompanying Georgetown's news release on Monday. "Sure, I could do more experiments in the lab and have my lab going, but given what I’ve been through, I think what I have to offer is experience and inspiration to the younger generation of students. If I accomplish that, I think I’ll make a major contribution to Georgetown".

NEW: Congress Demands NIH Emails That May Expose Fauci’s Efforts To Silence Lab Leak Theory
By Ilan Hulkower, July 3, 2023

The chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), wants answers from a senior adviser to Dr. Fauci, David Morens, who implied that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was trying to cover up for and discredit the lab leak theory of the COVID-19 virus’s origins according to Just the News. To that end, chairman Wenstrup has asked Morens to turn over documents and communication from his personal email and cellphone given that there is information that the senior adviser to the then director has been intentionally seeking to avoid public disclosure by using non-government communications.

The information about the cover up campaign is allegedly contained within Morens’s emails and the committee wants a transcribed interview with the witness by August 2nd. A cache of emails by Morens were already published by the Intercept and obtained by the committee. In those emails damning phrases like “As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’D [subject to public disclosure as per the Freedom of Information Act] constantly” and “I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times” appear.

In an email exchange with a Bloomberg journalist, Morens admits that “[f]or many months, I have not been approved to talk about “origins” on the record. But today, to my total surprise, my boss Tony [Dr. Fauci] actually ASKED me to speak to…[the press] on record about origins….[still] Tony doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories.”

Previously disclosed information establishes that Dr. Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins contributed in an under the table way to a 2020 paper that dismissed the lab leak theory as a viable possibility. Fauci later cited this same paper during a press conference to dismiss the same theory.

Morens also suggested over an email exchange dating to 2021 that publications that went with the lab leak theory ought to be sued for slander. Chairman Wenstrup attacked Morens for giving “the appearance of a government official encouraging litigation against the press for reporting that does not follow public health bureaucrats’ pre-conceived narrative and is unacceptable.” Wenstrup observed that all these interactions “raise serious concerns about your [Morens’s] objectivity while stationed” as Fauci’s assistant and that the subcommittee will inquire “whether you made or influenced any funding decisions based on your personal motives or biases towards scientists.”

Chairman Wenstrup summarized his concerns with how Morens and others acted as well as professed to want to know the core motive of why these scientists behaved as they did on Fox News.

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