The House GOP is ‘Building the Case’ to Issue Criminal Referrals Against Dr. Fauci
"I would, frankly, prefer just to have Dr. Fauci come back in and take another round of questions here, but we’re building the case," Jordan said.
House Republicans are "building the case" to issue criminal referrals against Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress.
The news comes via “The Benny Show” with host Benny Johnson.
“So, specifically before your committee, and also before Rand Paul over in the Senate, Dr. Fauci has, of course, absolved himself of all funding of gain-of-function," Johnson said. "He said he doesn’t know anything about it. It is verifiable and demonstrable that he lied. Now, there are codes in Congress. I have a code right here, 18 U.S. Code 1001.”
“1001,” Jordan said.
“Statements — false statements to Congress," Johnson said. "Says you can be imprisoned, says you can be imprisoned for eight years if you lie to Congress. It seems like there has never been a more clear-cut case of some individual lying to Congress.”
“Yeah, we can do — there could be a referral, but you would refer to the Biden Justice Department," Jordan remarked. "I don’t know that — they’re going to pursue that, but you can definitely do that. You could, have to have one of the committees, the Senate Judiciary Committee could do a referral. I doubt they will with the Democrats in charge."
"We could do a referral potentially," he continued. "I would, frankly, prefer just to have Dr. Fauci come back in and take another round of questions here, but we’re building the case. You know, like, we had Dr. Redfield testify last week, Chairman Wenstrup did. I thought he was — I thought he was great. As were the other witnesses that were brought in."
"So, again, laying that foundation," he continued. "I do think Dr. Fauci and the CDC changed the definition of gain-of-function research, so that Fauci has, like, this wiggle room, but they were juicing up this virus, no doubt about it, juicing up this virus, making it more — I don’t know the technical, but making it juiced up and more deadly, I guess, maybe the correct word.”
“Yes,” Johnson remarked.
“So, they were doing that in this lab and I think that’s clear," Jordan said. "So, we’ll just have to see as we move through this investigation.”
Senator Rand Paul announced in July 2021 that he would send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for lying to Congress.
Senator Paul's announcement comes after fireworks with Dr. Fauci over his statements regarding the NIAID's funding of 'gain of function' research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through the subcontractor EcoHealth Alliance.
“Dr. Fauci, as you’re aware, it is a crime to lie to Congress,” Senator Paul began his interrogation of Fauci. “Section 1001 of the U.S. Criminal Code creates a felony and a five-year penalty for lying to Congress.”
“On your last trip to our committee on May 11th, you stated that the NIH has not ever and has not now funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Paul continued. “And yet, gain of function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH.”
On Tuesday, the House's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held hearings that eviscerated Fauci’s numerous lies on SARS-CoV-2 origins.
"We know the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting gain of function research on novel bat coronaviruses by creating chimeric viruses, combining two viruses together to test infectivity and infecting mice with these viruses work that former Covid-19 task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx confirmed was in fact gain-of-function contrary to statements by Dr. Fauci," Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) said.
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield accused Dr. Fauci of keeping him out of conversations with researchers so that he could cover up the lab leak theory.
Fauci subsequently denied Redfield's charge in an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) then laid into Fauci for deceiving the public.
"He was trying to cover his backside, and everybody knows it,” Jordan said. “This is the highest paid guy in our govt. getting all kinds of money to tell us things that were not accurate. US tax dollars went to a lab in China, a lab that was not up to code, a lab that was doing gain of function research, and that's where this thing most definitely came from and Dr. Fauci could not have that news getting out."
It is time for the U.S. Congress to hold Dr. Fauci accountable for misleading the American people throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Even if that ultimate reckoning does not come under this Senate and White House, the Republican Party is right to start "building the case."
The Republican Congress is stalling and pussyfooting around the issue; Fauci does not need to answer any more questions as we already know what kinds of answers he gives...he is a psychopathic chronic liar! The Republicans, as usual, are all talk and have no balls and will wind up giving Fauci an out instead of the penalty he deserves for lying to Congress; of course he has done a lot more lying and damage over his entire career which has been based on falsehoods and deception; during the entire investigative hearing the Republican Congress has shown a lot of posturing and misleading of the public in spite of expert testimony revealing the criminal conspiracies and racketeering crimes that have been ongoing since the 1980s; the aim now is to blame China for everything, especially for the GOF that was going on in Wuhan labs, but that is a distraction from looking deeper at overwhelming evidence that shows the U.S was deeply involved in its own GOF experiments and breaking the law, both before and after the moratorium; Ralph Baric and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill , were not only fully complicit but directed the bulk of the research with assistance from Wuhan; Baric also tried to avoid any accountability by blaming Wuhan virologists such as the "bat lady" for the pathogen that was engineered in UNC labs under his direction;it appears that David Martin has provided Congessional members with complete documentation with published admissions but they have not responded.
Well that would be nice but I don't think anything will happen to FRaUdci!! SADLY.