https://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-gop-investigate-fauci-wins-senate-2022-2
- Sen. Rand Paul said Republicans would subpoena Fauci if they win the Senate in the mid-terms.
- Paul and Fauci have engaged in bitter exchanges at Senate hearings.
- Paul has pushed unsubstantiated claims that funds approved by Fauci may have helped create COVID.
Sen. Rand Paul said that Republicans will subpoena chief White House medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci if they take control of the Senate in the mid-term elections.
The Kentucky Republican is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. He stands to be nominated as chairman of the panel if Republicans win the Senate in November, securing him the power to launch investigations and issue subpoenas.
“If we win in November, if I’m chairman of a committee, if I have subpoena power, we’ll go after every one of [Fauci’s] records,” Paul said during an interview with anti-vax podcaster Lisa Boothe.
“We’ll have an investigator go through this piece by piece because we don’t need this to happen again.”
Paul, a physician, and Fauci have clashed in a series of heated exchanges in Senate hearings.
Paul, often trafficking in conspiracy theories and disinformation, has criticised Fauci on measures he has advocated to contain the virus.
His attacks have focussed on Fauci’s tenure as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and often rely on speculation that funding Fauci approved to a lab in Wuhan, China, may have been used to create the coronavirus.
Fauci has denied that the funding was for so-called “gain of function” research, or research into making diseases more contagious.
The origin of the virus has not been established, with China blocking attempts to investigate the source of the pandemic. Many experts believe that the theory it originated in a lab is spurious and it most likely originated in nature, though others say it is plausible.
In a particularly embittered exchange in January, Fauci said that Paul’s baseless attacks “kindle the crazies” who threaten and harass him and his family. He said Paul was seeking to exploit the pandemic for political gain.
At hearing last July, Fauci said “you do not know what you’re talking about” to Paul, and accused him of “lying”, after the senator tried to draw connections between research in China partly funded by NIAID and the coronavirus.
Paul had at a hearing earlier in the year accused Fauci of indulging in “theater” by wearing a mask after having gotten vaccinated, and Fauci responded that vaccines don’t offer protection against all variants.
Fauci has become a hate figure for some on the right, with many Republicans rallying around opposition to federal government measures to control the virus.
Some Republican supporters have embraced fringe anti-vaccine views and conspiracy theories about the virus.
So Republican 101 normal behavior, when in power attack and try to destroy anyone who you dislike. The right hates Dr. Fauci because they cannot discredit him, he points out their misinformation and lies. I hate that this is the Republican idea of governing. How does this help the country? Why vote them into office if this is their goal? Remember that Rand Paul is making big money on Covid treatment drugs, and he fud raises off his attacks on Dr. Fauci. So he is putting his personal profit ahead of saving lives.
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The scary part of this is that if the Repukes DO get majority control, Rand Paul will go forward with his threat AND he’ll be backed by party members simply because they want to demonstrate their power. That’s one thing that can be said about the Party of Red … they stick together.
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Hello Nan. So true. Republicans know how to use power and they have proved it. When Republicans are in charge you never hear them say we shouldn’t do something because it might upset Democrats. When Republicans are in charge, they never say we shouldn’t do this because Democrats might do it someday. They just do what they want when they want. Democrats try to find peace, try to find a way to compromise. You cannot compromise with people who think they get their way only and that is a compromise. The Democrats will try to reach across the aisle or will give their votes to help the country like with the debt limit. Republicans know this. They knew that the country would crash if the debt limit did not get raised, they knew how it would hurt the people, but they did not care and refused a single vote. They wanted a sound bit for the 2022 election. The Republicans are taking credit for the infrastructure bill that they voted against. Democrats don’t do that because we value truth. I don’t want to lower standards of the Democrats, but I want to see them act stronger and more like they want to win. It starts with getting rid of the old guard. And yes, if the Republicans get in charge they will act like savage ruthless pirates and they won’t give a damn what it does to the country.
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And yes, if the Republicans get in charge they will act like savage ruthless pirates and they won’t give a damn what it does to the country.
It’s. All. About. POWER! (And $$$$$)
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