EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Fauci referred to DC’s top prosecutor for CRIMINAL charges: Republican Rand Paul demands perjury investigation into his ‘lie’ under oath that COVID didn’t come from Wuhan lab

Republican Senator. Edge Paul recommends the Supreme Prosecutor in Washington, D.C. to investigate and bring possible criminal charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly lying under oath about the origins of COVID-19.

Paul sent a letter to DCUS attorney Matthew Graves on Tuesday, demanding an investigation into Fauci for alleged perjury at a 2021 congressional hearing when he said COVID did not come from a Chinese lab.

‘Dr. Fauci testified that “the NIH never and now does not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” At a subsequent hearing, I alerted Dr. Fauci for the criminal implications of lying to Congress and offered him the chance to recant his previous statements,” Paul writes in the letter obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

In response to this, Dr. Fauci that he had “never lied to Congress” and “would not retract that statement.” Dr. Fauci’s testimony is inconsistent with facts that have since come to light,” the senator continued.

The move comes just weeks after he filed an “official criminal referral” with the Justice Department. An aide to Paul’s confirmed to DailyMail.com that the DOJ never responded.

Perjury is a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Before Congress, Dr. Fauci funded gains of function research, to the press he claims to have a level-headed view of the lab leak hypothesis, and privately acknowledges gains of function research at WIV to his colleagues. colleagues have commented on the inconsistency of Dr. Fauci recognised’, Paul continues in the letter to Graves.

“However, a congressional hearing is not the place for an official to play political games, especially when the health and well-being of American citizens are at stake.”

Paul previously wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 14 and July 23 calling for an investigation into whether Fauci had lied under oath about his knowledge of dangerous virus research taking place at China’s Wuhan lab.

In July 2021, Dr. Fauci testified that his former department “never and now has not funded research on gains of function in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Gain-of-function research refers to a type of scientific research conducted on viruses, with the aim of improving their transmissibility or virulence.

The goal is to understand how viruses evolve and possibly predict and prepare for future disease outbreaks also raises concerns about biosafety and biosecurity.

Fauci was a former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until the end of 2022 and was responsible for signing such research grants.

On July 13, 2023, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released emails sent by Fauci regarding a conference call on the origins of COVID attended by Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and other researchers.

In one email, Fauci admits that the scientists’ concerns that Covid may have been genetically engineered were exacerbated by the fact that function enhancement research was taking place in Wuhan before the pandemic.

Emails dated February 1, 2020 show that Fauci acknowledged that “scientists at Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapt to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan’

Emails of February 1, 2020 shows Fauci acknowledging that “Scientists at the University of Wuhan are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapt to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”

While the emails show that Fauci knew about the lab’s gain-of-function, he never admitted that the NIH funded it.

But the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined last month that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did indeed receive NIH funding, Paul said in his letter to AG Garland.

Paul drew attention to the February 2020 email in which Fauci describes a phone call between British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar, who was a director of the Wellcome Trust at the time.

During the conversation, Fauci, along with Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and other “highly credible” scientists shared their concerns that when looking at the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be very unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was introduced deliberately.’

The suspicion was bolstered by the fact that scientists at Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak found originated in Wuhan,” wrote Fauci. in the unredacted email..

“This is in direct contradiction to everything he said to me at the committee hearing, absolutely denying that they were funding any kind of profit, and it is absolutely a lie. That is why I have sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ,” Paul wrote on Twitter.

In July, Paul told Fauci that lying to Congress was a federal crime and suggested he lied about the COVID-19 gain-of-function study conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Paul gave Fauci the opportunity to retract his May 11 statement alleging that the US was not funding a profit-of-function study with its $600,000 grant, saying, “Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, will you withdraw your statement?’

Fauci became animated during the exchange, pointing fingers at Paul for being a ‘liar’

Fauci insisted he “never lied to Congress” during earlier testimony in May.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Fauci told Paul.

Paul, who studied at Duke University School of Medicine, said a paper credited to the NIH saw the author take two spike proteins from the bat coronavirus to combine them and create a new virus, which does not occur naturally in the occurs in nature but would spread in humans, Paul said in a congressional hearing in July.

“Viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the laboratory in Wuhan to acquire the function of infecting humans,” he said.

‘They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and increased their transmissibility to humans. How to say it’s not a feature gain – it’s a dance, and you’re dancing around this because you’re trying to cover up responsibility for 4 million people dying from a pandemic around the world.”

Fauci said the newspaper Paul was referring to was “rated by qualified personnel up and down the chain as not for profit.”

But the recently released emails show that Fauci refers to the research by scientists at Wuhan University as “gain-of-function experiments.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic.

“The FBI has long determined that the origin of the pandemic is most likely a possible lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray said in February.

In June, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University received NIH funding, Paul also noted in his letter to Garland.

It said, “The report noted that the NIH funded the WIV project ‘Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence’ and ‘involved genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized coronavirus strains. ‘.

“GAO also found that NIH funded Wuhan University’s collaboration with WIV on viral detection in Yunnan province.”

A former head of the NIH, Fauci presided over the allocation of taxpayer-funded grants for virus-promoting research at WIV years before the pandemic began.

A federal watchdog found that the NIH “did not effectively monitor” those experiments or monitor whether they involved pathogens with pandemic risk.

The Energy Department, the FBI and several government commissions believe the virus leaked from a lab, pointing to a number of coincidences and circumstantial evidence.