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Sen. Cruz Responds To Fauci’s Political Attacks

Anthony Fauci
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Over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to a political attack from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the president, by again calling for an investigation into Fauci for lying to Congress.

Fauci told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan, “Anybody who spins lies and threatens and all that theater that goes on with some of the investigations and the congressional committees and the Rand Pauls and all that other nonsense, that’s noise, Margaret, that’s noise.”

When asked about Cruz saying that he should be prosecuted for lying to Congress, Fauci dodged, saying, “Yeah. I have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted? What happened on Jan. 6, senator?”

Fauci continued by deflecting from the lies he made while testifying to Congress by claiming Republicans were just trying to protect former President Trump.

After the interview, Cruz responded to Fauci’s partisan attack, writing on Twitter that Fauci is “an unelected technocrat who has distorted science and facts in order to exercise authoritarian control over millions of Americans.”

“He lives in a liberal world where his smug ‘I REPRESENT science’ attitude is praised,” Cruz continued.

Cruz then listed four facts that supported his call for Fauci to be investigated:

  1. On May 11, Fauci testified before a Senate Committee that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
  1. On October 20, NIH wrote they funded an experiment at the Wuhan lab testing if “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” That is gain of function research.
  2. Fauci’s statement and the NIH’s October 20 letter cannot both be true. The statements are directly contradictory.
  3. 18 USC 1001 makes it [a] felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison, to lie to Congress.

“No amount of ad hominem insults parroting Democrat talking points will get Fauci out of this contradiction,” Cruz concluded. “Fauci either needs to address the substance—in detail, with specific factual corroboration—or DOJ should consider prosecuting him for making false statements to Congress.”

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