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Dr. Anthony Fauci will testify next Wednesday in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed, chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday.
Paul has been laser-focused on Fauci, the nation’s former top infectious diseases doctor, for allegedly covering up the U.S.’s involvement in risky viral research in a Chinese lab that the Kentucky senator says created the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I expect he will not tell the truth,” Paul said in a Fox Business interview Thursday. “I don’t expect him to be honest, he hasn’t been honest in the last six years.”
The two men clashed repeatedly during heated Senate hearings when Fauci was leading the country’s pandemic response during the Biden administration.
Fauci retired from government service in 2022 and has repeatedly denied accusations from Paul and other Republicans.
Paul has claimed without hard evidence that the virus was manufactured in a Chinese lab and somehow escaped, and that Fauci and other top officials conspired to convince the public that the “lab leak” idea was a preposterous conspiracy theory. He blames Fauci for the tens of millions of COVID-19 deaths worldwide.
President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci and other top officials before Biden left office, over concerns they would be targeted by the Trump administration.
Paul has also called for Fauci to be indicted for what the senator said was lying to Congress under oath about gain-of-function research.
Infectious disease experts have said the work the National Institutes of Health was funding could not have caused the pandemic.
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