Rand Paul Gets Final Struck to Make Fauci Answer for Wuhan Lab Lies

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Sen. Rand Paul has one last chance to corner Anthony Fauci — and this time, the former NIH chief can’t hide behind the Fifth Amendment.

Next week, Fauci is scheduled to testify before Paul’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. After years of stonewalling and carefully parsed denials, this hearing presents a rare opportunity to get answers from the man who funded dangerous animal experiments that likely sparked COVID-19 and bankrolled beagle torture in labs worldwide.

This time is different.

In January 2025, President Joe Biden granted Fauci a sweeping pardon covering a decade-long period starting when he first funded the infamous Wuhan lab grant. That pardon — first exposed by White Coat Waste and cut days later by President Donald Trump in 2020 — means Fauci no longer faces realistic criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses.

Translation: The usual Fifth Amendment excuse for dodging questions is off the table.

Fauci no longer faces any realistic risk of criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses covered by the pardon.

Paul should press Fauci on three false statements he’s repeatedly made to Congress, the press, and the American people about the Wuhan lab and BeagleGate — claims debunked by evidence White Coat Waste obtained through Freedom of Information Act investigations.

First: gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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

White Coat Waste has receipts.

Their FOIA 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 appear to involve gain-of-function research that was banned at the time.

Instead of stopping the experiments, NIH worked with disgraced EcoHealth president Peter Daszak to skirt the ban. Daszak gleefully celebrated the decision, writing in an email obtained by White Coat Waste: “This is terrific! We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted.”

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.

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?

Second: using personal email for official NIH business.

During House testimony in 2024, Fauci declared to Chairman James Comer, “To the best of my recollection and knowledge, I have never conducted official business via my private email.”

Yet White Coat Waste’s FOIA investigations uncovered official NIH emails showing Fauci telling a Washington Post reporter covering the BeagleGate scandal, “I will send you an email via my Gmail account.”

Records have also emerged showing that David Morens, Fauci’s longtime advisor who was indicted in April for FOIA violations, told Daszak and others in 2021: “I 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.”

Will Fauci come clean?

“I will send you an email via my Gmail account.” — Anthony Fauci to Washington Post reporter, despite later testifying he never used personal email for official business

Finally: BeagleGate — the viral dog testing scandal.

The story first exposed by White Coat Waste showed Fauci funded experiments where beagles were drugged and had their heads locked in mesh cages full of biting sand flies. Fauci and his allies spent years falsely dismissing it as a conspiracy.

In a 2021 Washington Post cover story, Fauci called the dog testing claims “ridiculous accusations and outright lies.” In his 2024 memoir, Fauci again dismissed the story as “lies,” “lunacy,” and “off-the-wall accusations” and defended himself by awkwardly saying, “I am a passionate animal lover, especially of dogs.”

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, which had aggressively defended Fauci and smeared White Coat Waste, finally acknowledged in 2024 that it published NIH disinformation, acknowledging that “NIH was not fully transparent as it tried to handle a public-relations nightmare.”

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.

Americans deserve answers.

Next week’s hearing may be Congress’s last meaningful opportunity to confront Anthony Fauci directly and finally set the record straight on Wuhan and BeagleGate.

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