Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” on the night of Tuesday, January 16, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a perennial critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director should face jail time for his alleged lies to Congress during the Covi-19 pandemic.
Host Laura Ingraham began the discussion, introducing the issue by explaining why she thinks the Establishment is to blame for the public’s lack of trust and faith in institutions, not former President Donald Trump, as it has been caught lying to the American people.
Beginning, she said, “The establishment regularly wrings their hands befuddled by the public’s obvious and dramatic loss, loss of faith and America’s once most respected institutions. Now invariably they blame Donald Trump for sowing the seeds of doubt. He and his mega mastodons, all those they’re the ones who poison the public’s thinking about everything from the FBI to the CDC. I’m a politician I know. I’m listening to the science. We’re socially distance. If the unvaccinated get vaccinated, they will protect themselves and other unvaccinated people around them. If they do not, states with low vaccination rates may see those rates go up.”
Then, blaming the Establsihment for the public’s trust issues, she said, “Of course, these frauds all need to look in the mirror. They are solely to blame because they’re the ones who just made stuff up to scare people and to control people. How many times did some annoying liberal woman chastise you at the grocery store checkout line or at the airport check-in counter, social distancing. Please remember that remember, those annoying stickers are still there? Well, as The Angle told you back in 2020. These rules, rules about masks, rules about social distancing, were not based in science at all. And now years later, and testimony on Capitol Hill, Tony Fauci, the man responsible for it all has begun admitting what we knew all along, that there was no data driven evidence to support these rules. But we were supposed to blame Trump for all this. Those same fraudulent scare tactics are being used to mandate EVs. A lot of them are frozen here in Iowa this week. And of course, they want to outlaw gas stoves; you’ll have to fight me for mine. And they want to push to ban meat . . . to eat grasshoppers. And of course, they want to ban natural grass lawns can’t have those. The left wants to control you. They want to monitor you, and they want to chip away your freedoms for your own good. Joining me now Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Senator,”
Then, addressing Sen. Paul, she asked, “Senator, it was all — yeah, Senator, they were lying. And the lying had real consequences for children, their mental health, their education, for business, for our faith, not being able to go to houses of worship? I mean, that’s fundamental American freedoms. And I’ll ask you again, what should the consequences be for Anthony Fauci?”
Responding, Sen. Paul immediately argued that Fauci should go to jail. He said, “Jail. You know, I’ve sent two referrals to the Department of Justice. I think he lied to Congress, which is a felony. You know, several folks from the Trump administration were accused of lying to Congress and carted off to jail with FBI agents all over their property, you know, yanking them out of their house early in the morning.”
Contrasting that treatment of former President Trump’s personnel with how Dr. Fauci has been treated, Sen. Paul argued that there are two tiers of justice. He said, “But we have two tiers of justice here. It depends on whether you were a supporter of Donald Trump or you’re a supporter of big government, you know, the centralized government.”
Continuing, Sen. Paul alleged that Fauci lied to Congress, claiming, “But Anthony Fauci did lie to Congress. We know that from his own words, not because I say he lies, but his private emails say he was lying. Virtually everything he said in private contradicted what he was saying in public. And he was fairly honest in private. In private, he said masks don’t work. In public, he wore three masks. In private, he admitted that there was such a thing as natural immunity gained from getting the infection. In public, he was like, oh, you know, we’re not going to measure that. It’s unpredictable.”
Watch Sen. Paul discuss the matter here:
Rand Paul says Fauci should go to jail. pic.twitter.com/qUZNIBocEd
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