Anthony Fauci is testifying before a Senate panel led by Republican Senator Rand Paul regarding the origins of Covid-19 with lawmakers heavily focusing on the “lab leak” hypothesis.

Fauci advised both the Trump and Biden administrations during the Covid pandemic and directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly four decades prior to his 2022 retirement.

During hearing, he invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“However, given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the........

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