Rand Paul again vows to hit 'Godfather of the pandemic' Fauci with criminal referrals

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continued his yearslong crusade against Dr. Anthony Fauci, telling a conservative radio host Monday that he would again pursue criminal charges against the country’s former top infectious disease expert with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.

And the idea that President Joe Biden is considering a preemptive pardon of Fauci didn’t seem to phase the Kentucky senator, who has forcefully lambasted Fauci for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, including in an infamous January 2022 shouting match during a Senate Health Committee hearing.

“I've sent criminal referrals on Anthony Fauci twice to the Department of Justice without a response. I will send those referrals again,” Paul told Glenn Beck on Monday. “If they preemptively pardon Fauci, it will seal his fate as the architect, author, and Godfather of the pandemic.”

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Paul went on to tell Beck on his show, “The Glenn Beck Program,” that Fauci “is the one that funded it,” and “allowed the research not to be scrutinized.”

“And really we have him at his own words,” Paul said. “We have him dead to rights. If the president pardons him I think it will just cement his role in history as being the architect of gain-of-function surgery.”

Beck added that he hopes Kash Patel – Trump’s pick for FBI director – releases “the raw evidence that has been gathered, kind of like the Twitter files, where we can see all the stuff that has been classified that should be seen by the American people.”

Paul agreed that he thinks Patel should release a still-classified FBI report on the pandemic if confirmed to the post.

“Anything having to do with ‘Russia Gate,’ anything to do with the abuse of the FBI to go after Donald Trump, all that has to be publicly released as well,” he told Beck.