"David Morens, Dr. Fauci's top advisor, was indicted, but Fauci himself still walks free," Sen. Rand Paul, warning about the deadline that came Monday, wrote in an X post on May 7.
Dr. Morens, a key advisor to Fauci, was indicted in April on federal charges he concealed research and medical records from the public during the Covid-19 pandemic. He faces five totals counts, including conspiracy, falsifying records, and concealing records.
It is suspected that Fauci was part of that cover-up, too, but he is already protected by a controversial preemptive pardon issued by former President Joe Biden.
Amidst the Morens indictment, and a statue of limitations for Fauci that hit May 11, a Senate committee got underway Wednesday morning to hear a whistleblower allege a Covid-19 cover-up. That eyewitness, CIA analyst James Erdman III, told senators Fauci "significantly influenced" the investigation into the origin of the virus.
"Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional," Erdman told the Senate committee.
The statue of limitations is related to Fauci’s May 2021 congressional testimony about gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the long-suspected source of the Covid-19 virus.
At that Senate hearing, Dr. Fauci directly addressed Paul when he stated the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The term “gain-of-function” research refers to purposely altering a virus to study it and understand it better.
After years of investigation, it is believed the Wuhan lab was testing a bat virus, the same one that created a global pandemic that was blamed for an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide. In the U.S., the virus was blamed for 1.2 million deaths.
It is also alleged Fauci knew the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was indirectly involved in that testing by funding research grants that went to the Chinese lab.
In key testimony in May 2024, NIH deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak told a House subcommittee NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. That funding went to a grant source, EcoHealth Alliance, which collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Describing the Fauci controversy on his AFR show, show host Todd Herman called Fauci the “architect” of what happened during the pandemic.
“He's also in all likelihood the architect of the Covid flu itself, that was created in the Wuhan lab in China, in coordination with Tony Fauci using your money, purposely laundered, to hide what he was doing,” Herman alleged.
"You're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying from a pandemic," Paul told Fauci in one heated exchange.
“If there is any lying here, Senator, it is you," Fauci, shaking his finger at Paul, told him at one point. “You are obviously obfuscating the truth."
Herman urged President Trump to punish Fauci for his role in a Covid-19 cover-up.
"I would say, sir, this is the man who stole the election from you," Herman said. "He did it with with the lies that it was gonna kill people if they voted in person. He did it by tanking the economy. He did it by scaring people, by lying."
