Fox News reports, “Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky continues to press Dr. Anthony Fauci for answers on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) gain-of-function research funding.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained Paul’s questions for the record following up on Fauci’s dramatic Jan. 11 testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.

The American people deserve to know how this pandemic started, to know if the NIH funded dangerous gain-of-function research that may have caused this pandemic, and to remove from office anyone, such as Dr. Fauci, who let this happen. https://t.co/akFqLGVRPx

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 25, 2022

Paul submitted 11 ‘yes or no’ questions for Fauci to answer in a letter to Senate HELP Committee chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Richard Burr, R-N.C, last week.

‘The American people deserve to know how this pandemic started, to know if the NIH funded dangerous gain-of-function research that may have caused this pandemic, and to remove from office anyone, such as Dr. Fauci, who let this happen,’ Paul told Fox News Digital in a Monday email.”

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The Washington Examiner’s Christopher Tremoglie writes, “Almost a week has passed since the National Institutes of Health revealed its role in funding viral gain-of-function research in Wuhan. This admission showed that Dr. Anthony Fauci was not truthful when he denied the research was going on.

Sen. Rand Paul said for weeks that Fauci’s credibility was suspect. He was vilified in the media for it…

Take Fauci’s lying more seriously | Washington Examiner https://t.co/F5jCr3MLzW

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 26, 2021

On Oct. 20, the truth came out. The Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter stating the U.S. nongovernmental group EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms and conditions of NIH grant AI110964. Richard Ebright tweeted this information, and he also declared that this shows that Fauci, along with NIH Director Francis Collins, made untruthful assertions…

‘I told you so’ doesn’t even begin to cover it here,’ Paul tweeted on Oct. 20. The senator has been leading the charge on this issue for quite some time now, and the liberal media declared him persona non grata for doing so. Yet, in the end when all the truth and facts came out, Paul was right.”

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Yahoo News reported on Thursday (emphasis added), “A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing…

The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question. At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

We now know about this funding because an NIH official admitted it.

But when the Paul and Fauci exchange originally happened, how many reporters thought it wise to investigate and see if there was any validity to Paul’s claims?

When @randpaul asked Fauci if the NIH had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, reporters spent their time mocking Paul instead of investigating if it was true.

Now we know it’s true. Why does a US senator have to do reporters job for them? #ArrestFauci #FauciLied pic.twitter.com/a4EQ9SjH4O

— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) October 25, 2021

How many “journalists” instead reflexively mocked Paul and defended Fauci?

The media today see its job as promoting and protecting the Biden administration, not challenging it.

Americans should know if their tax dollars went toward funding gain-of-function research in a Chinese lab and the potential implications of that research regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Americans do know thanks to the efforts of Rand Paul, who, as a U.S. senator, did the investigating and reporting that no journalist thought important to do.

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Fox News reports, “Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in an interview that aired Sunday night that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top disease specialist in the U.S., should be fired after last week’s revelation that the National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research on the coronavirus…

‘He [Fauci] should be fired,’ Paul said. He continued, ‘just for lack of judgment if nothing else.’

Fauci should be fired after NIH admits funding gain-of-function research, Rand Paul says https://t.co/M63J0kVcFX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 25, 2021

Paul said that Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will likely never admit that he lied.

‘He’s going to continue to disassemble and try to work around the truth and massage the truth,’ he said.”

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