Rand Paul Grills Dr. Fauci For Trying To Suppress Lab-Leak Theory

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul engaged in yet another explosive exchange at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky were testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 response. Paul began to ask Fauci why he had attempted to suppress the lab-leak theory by dismissing the work of various scientists who were exploring the possibility, and Fauci got fired up in response.

“I think, in usual fashion, Senator, you are distorting everything about me,” Fauci said. “There you go again. You just do the same thing every hearing. You’re absolutely incorrect, as usual, Senator. You are incorrect, almost everything you say—”

Paul interjected that Fauci denies doing so, but that his emails show the truth. He said that Fauci tried to suppress information from scientists from Oxford, Harvard and Stanford who were open to the lab-leak theory.