Rand Paul on Fauci diary entries: ‘Level of dishonesty is really astounding’

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has published Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary from when he led the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, says that the entries reveal a “level of dishonesty” that is “really astounding.”

“One of the biggest items that we found in there was that in January of 2020 he already was acknowledging that the virus didn’t originate in the marketplace. For years he’s been telling you — if you interviewed him last week, he’s probably still telling you — the reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exotic animals and that’s where SARS came from previously,” Paul told reporters at the Capitol on Monday.

Paul said critics of Fauci’s work have “known” that COVID-19 likely jumped from animals to people before it spread through a wet market in Wuhan, China, where vendors sold live animals, such as pangolins.

“The earliest people who got........

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