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{"id":26586,"date":"2026-07-28T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-pauls-about-to-get-his-chance-to-settle-his-feud-with-anthony-fauci\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:02:36","slug":"rand-pauls-about-to-get-his-chance-to-settle-his-feud-with-anthony-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-pauls-about-to-get-his-chance-to-settle-his-feud-with-anthony-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul\u2019s about to get his chance to settle his feud with Anthony Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s said Anthony Fauci belongs in prison. The Kentucky Republican will get his chance to make the case Wednesday when the former Covid czar is slated to appear under subpoena before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that Paul chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Paul reiterated his objective <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RandPaul\/status\/2081815634510483749\" target=\"_blank\"><u>on X<\/u><\/a> Monday, saying the pardon President Joe Biden gave Fauci \u2014 Biden said to shield him from a vindictive Trump administration prosecution \u2014 would not protect Fauci if he lies to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The two have a feud dating to the pandemic, when Paul accused Fauci of lying to Congress about funding risky research in China that Paul believes unleashed Covid-19. Fauci responded to Paul by accusing him of lying. Now 85, Fauci retired from federal service at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/fauci-aide-covid-research-indictment-00895447\" target=\"_blank\"><u>federal grand jury indicted<\/u><\/a> Fauci\u2019s former senior adviser, David Morens, on three felony charges for allegedly circumventing federal public records laws by concealing Covid-related communications. Federal agents arrested Morens at his home in Maryland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/guns-and-bulletproof-vests-how-federal-agents-arrested-fauci-aide\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reportedly putting him in handcuffs and making him disrobe<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s goals go beyond incriminating Fauci. He also wants to show that Fauci funded risky virus research in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is the truth,\u201d Paul told reporters on Monday about Fauci. \u201cI&#8217;d like to hear him say he\u2019s sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The origin of Covid remains a fraught debate, with no scientific consensus on whether it was a lab accident or whether an animal infected a human. But most Republicans and President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>have embraced the lab leak theory<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has rejected Paul\u2019s accusations and defended himself vigorously, including in some of the five previous hearings in which they\u2019ve faced off.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over Fauci\u2019s legacy has long broken on party lines, and Democrats are expected to defend him against GOP attacks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got a longstanding vendetta against Fauci. He seems to be almost obsessed,\u201d Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member, said of Paul on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Both Paul and Democrats on the committee have supported stricter oversight of gain-of-function research, which aims to make viruses more virulent or more transmissible in order to devise defenses against them. The panel has twice approved Paul\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_S_854\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Risky Research Review Act<\/u><\/a>, which would take funding decisions away from Fauci\u2019s old agency, the National Institutes of Health, and give them to a new Life Sciences Research Security Board appointed by the president. The White House also released Tuesday a <a href=\"https:\/\/links.us1.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=6a6902f8a44076274f2c8dd5&amp;Domain=politico.com&amp;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&amp;Lang=en&amp;@OriginalLink=cisionone-email.hhs.gov&amp;Base64Url=eNoFwtmWQzAAANAvMh0784a2lqG2avHitBESVVFimXz9nHsRpeP8czgAPGMykAFy8P3A_RdC81dL1gM4QG-bmW-HomVkCNrDVgu85Lq7j7EAHi5JnmnHW0HQs3PZ_dm2fV-baByJwFWkCmz82n-d7rMVrDAfVwEr_JXwPg3SrHSzAp1DBRxryQrLLENdPMK5Hiac2u5jOSe5W3yz_LRbCZCy6W-Ik4r4tQyEEE_E9m450U-d6nBw5PQmVpuSPm_pO9-78BgCVkUzYxl_X8MuGyqf7eCuOf1Kj9DWlMssFPkvOD3C9-IEifRkqjaLnHcX5aOG5DZY_BKmOqLaVQU3sY_01tPGU79rhPJXlMOPbChVPmgafelS35C0GODwMjdAPXsyraGoxKNu4GfjGTLAi7KtU-cwFK8wmylXM7UJ9U8odcuka2Q1Y9N8YmKmqDPHNvMTi79MsTtN30ysI7xuhmFEVbXJVLy0_5I8lds%3D\" target=\"_blank\"><u>new policy stopping high-risk biological research<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s said Anthony Fauci belongs in prison. The Kentucky Republican will get his chance to make the case Wednesday when the former Covid czar is slated to appear under subpoena before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that Paul chairs. Paul reiterated his objective on X Monday, saying the pardon President Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}