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Paula Rolf's avatar

Fauci should have been locked up 40 years ago.

lawrence greenberg's avatar

And charged with mass murder and crimes against humanity.

Lysenko's avatar

There was no Senate vote. You and Randy both skipped that part.

Root Causes's avatar

Pasting from Andy Collen's comment yesterday -

Does Rand Paul or the howling maha crowd egging him on, have even the foggiest notion of the staggering legal landmines they arm Anthony Fauci with the moment they try to drag him into a courtroom?

It is a spectacle of pure, unvarnished hubris: they stand on the political podium egging on DOJ referrals and contempt charges, thoroughly convinced they are setting a trap for an old public servant, completely blind to the fact that an indictment is a two-way mirror.

The second a prosecutor signs off on formal charges, the legal sandbox vanishes, and Fauci gains the absolute constitutional right to reciprocal discovery, cross-examination, and the terrifying, binding power of federal subpoenas.

Trump’s inner circle seems to operate under the wild delusion that a criminal trial functions like a cable news hit where you can bark slogans and control the narrative, willfully ignoring that the defense team gets to demand every locked text chain, every internal white paper, and every unredacted record from the madness of 2020.

Put a man on trial, and you hand his lawyers the keys to the kingdom, giving Fauci the ultimate stage to force every architect of that era into sworn depositions where dodging a question isn't just bad PR, but a straight track to a perjury charge.

UnderBabied's avatar

"A victory long in the making"

How? It's just some prosecution theater to add to the disclosure theater. He didn't bother to take (or allow) the vote.

The picture you're all buzzing about is great.

Skeeve Kirsch's avatar

Cover something interesting for a change - like Rand Paul's wife trading Gilead stock while he was railing about remdesevir (and Fauci). If he's your "maha hero," you're even worse than lyin-tony.

Pierre Cusson's avatar

Should Fauci be considered a mass murderer, alongside with others who helped him along the way ?

Praise Dear Leader's avatar

Paul skipped the required Senate vote, because he could never get the votes. Even if Judge Judy signs off, this won't stick. Just keep you all supplied with fodder.

Zebra202's avatar

Liberals believe they are above the law. We’ve seen that since 2020. We’ve seen it with fraud, paid protests, corporations that have tainted our food Thank goodness they have plenty of REAL evidence to charge him. With contempt without the senate. Glad there is years more of real Americans waking up.

SailingAway's avatar

Actually, Rand Paul has spent 6 years largely being wrong, but obsessed with this guy. Meanwhile, Redfield has joined the witch hunt, criticizing Fauci for his own agencies (CDC) guidelines and measures. Is his Horsesky masterpiece on the way soon?

Sandra Margolis's avatar

Can you elaborate on how Rand Paul spent 6 years largely being wrong ?

Cause there is an important complication: the underlying scientific and regulatory question is much more nuanced than “Paul was completely wrong.” Some researchers argue that the Wuhan experiments did constitute gain-of-function under broader definitions, even though NIH did not classify them that way. And the question of whether COVID originated through natural spillover or a laboratory accident remains unresolved.

Rutgers researcher Richard Ebright argued that the Wuhan experiments were gain-of-function under a broader scientific definition.

Truly, we have not proven with absolute certainty that SARS-CoV-2 entered humans through a natural animal-to-human spillover. And as of 2026, a laboratory-associated accident in Wuhan remains a scientifically possible hypothesis.

So basically, there are actually two different laboratory-origin hypotheses: A laboratory accident involving a naturally occurring virus (Researchers obtained a naturally occurring coronavirus → studied it → accidental exposure/release → pandemic). Or some laboratory engineering (Researchers genetically modified a virus → SARS-CoV-2 was created/modified → accidental release).

The first is much more plausible scientifically than the second, and you don’t need to believe SARS-CoV-2 was engineered to believe a lab accident is possible.

Are you saying that Paul’s rhetoric sometimes made these ideas sound more interconnected than the evidence justified ? Cause if that’s what you’re saying, saying he was completely wrong appears to be an overstatement.

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You know, there really was U.S. government-funded coronavirus research involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the experiments involved manipulating/recombining coronavirus components. Approximately $600,000 of an NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance went to the Wuhan lab. So Paul’s underlying question— “Exactly what research did the U.S. government fund at Wuhan, and could it have been relevant to the origin of COVID?” —was absolutely legitimate.

Don’t you agree with that ?

Jef Spalding's avatar

The 30,000-ft view here is not punishment for Anthony fauci, but whether Rand Paul's tireless congressional efforts to expose this charade will also help to expose the inherent corruption of vour government agencies, aligned exclusively with corporate interests, instead of what's best for the health and well-being of the people, and long term economic sustainability

Tom Sherman's avatar

This right here!👆👆👆

Ben Fen's avatar
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Some of the people slamming Sen. Paul and praising Fauci should be relieved to know that covid boosters are still available and mRNA flu shots (what could go wrong🤪) will be soon. Blind partisanship will eventually kill you, if it hasn’t already.

Jon Olsen's avatar

But no to this: " “More than a million Americans died from COVID-19." They mostly died from the abuse suffered by failing to give early truly effective treatment and from the nefarious vax! Paul's effort is a good start, but now go after Ralph Baric et. al, who actually DID the dirty deeds, and go from subpoenas to indictments.

BMeowDawg's avatar

And then he voted to confirm vax mandator Schwartz; and allows the FDA to fire all MAHA docs and approve an mRNA flu vaccine. And call this “winning.”