{"id":1134,"date":"2026-07-23T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:37:11","slug":"rand-paul-should-make-fauci-answer-for-wuhan-and-beaglegate-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Should Make Fauci Answer for Wuhan and BeagleGate Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Next week, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify before Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. After years of stonewalling, evasions, carefully parsed denials, and outright lies, this hearing presents a rare opportunity to get answers from America\u2019s most notorious mad scientist, who recklessly funded dangerous animal experiments that likely caused COVID-19 and financed beagle torture in labs worldwide.<\/p>\n

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This time is different.<\/p>\n

In one of his final acts in office, in January 2025, President Joe Biden granted Fauci a sweeping pardon that conspicuously covered a decade-long period starting when he first funded the infamous grant that paid the Wuhan lab, which was first exposed by White Coat Waste in early 2020 and cut days later by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

This means that Fauci no longer faces any realistic risk of criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses covered by the pardon. So, the usual Fifth Amendment justification for refusing to answer questions about potentially self-incriminating conduct is largely off the table.<\/p>\n

Paul should press Fauci on three false statements he has repeatedly made to Congress, the press, and the American people about the Wuhan lab and BeagleGate\u2014claims debunked by evidence obtained by White Coat Waste.<\/p>\n

First, Fauci needs to finally fess up about funding gain-of-function animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n

In multiple Senate hearings in 2021, Fauci categorically told Paul and others that \u201cthe NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d He repeated essentially the same claim during a House Oversight Committee hearing in 2024.<\/p>\n

But White Coat Waste has receipts. Our Freedom of Information Act investigations uncovered damning internal government emails from 2016 showing that NIH officials told EcoHealth Alliance that its Fauci-funded animal experiments with the Wuhan lab \u201cappear to involve\u201d gain-of-function research that was banned at the time.<\/p>\n

Instead of stopping the experiments, NIH worked with disgraced EcoHealth president Peter Daszak to skirt the ban. Daszak gleefully celebrated the decision, writing, \u201cThis is terrific! We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May 2024, then-acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak finally admitted to the House Oversight Committee that NIH did, in fact, fund gain-of-function in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

Paul should ask a simple question: Does Fauci still stand by his testimony, or will he finally acknowledge that his previous statements to Congress were false or misleading?<\/p>\n

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Second, Fauci should answer for his testimony denying that he used his personal email for official NIH business.<\/p>\n

During House testimony in 2024, Fauci declared to Chairman James Comer, \u201cTo the best of my recollection and knowledge, I have never conducted official business via my private email.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet White Coat Waste\u2019s FOIA investigations uncovered official NIH emails showing Fauci telling a Washington Post<\/em> reporter covering the BeagleGate scandal, \u201cI will send you an email via my Gmail account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Records have also emerged showing that David Morens, Fauci\u2019s longtime advisor who was indicted in April for FOIA violations, told Daszak and others in 2021, \u201cI can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail or hand it to him at work. . . He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Fauci come clean?<\/p>\n

Finally, Paul should revisit BeagleGate\u2014the viral dog testing scandal first exposed by White Coat Waste that Fauci and his allies spent years falsely dismissing as a conspiracy.<\/p>\n

In a 2021 Washington Post<\/em> cover story written by the same reporter Fauci said he would contact through his personal Gmail account, he called the dog testing claims \u201cridiculous accusations and outright lies.\u201d In his 2024 memoir, Fauci again dismissed the story as \u201clies,\u201d \u201clunacy,\u201d and \u201coff-the-wall accusations\u201d and defended himself by awkwardly saying, \u201cI am a passionate animal lover, especially of dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

But government documents obtained by White Coat Waste prove that Fauci funded countless dog labs, including the infamous experiments in Tunisia, where beagles were drugged and had their heads locked in mesh cages full of biting sand flies. After reviewing these records, even the Washington Post<\/em>, which had aggressively defended Fauci and smeared White Coat Waste, finally acknowledged in 2024 that it published NIH disinformation, acknowledging that \u201cNIH was not fully transparent as it tried to handle a public-relations nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul was one of the lawmakers who led the charge with White Coat Waste to hold Fauci accountable for funding beagle abuse and lying about it.<\/p>\n

Americans deserve answers.<\/p>\n

Next week\u2019s hearing may be Congress\u2019s last meaningful opportunity to confront Anthony Fauci directly and finally set the record straight on Wuhan and BeagleGate. Paul should seize it.<\/p>\n

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