Dr. Fauci Was Lying All Along

by Jim Buckley

U.S. Senator Rand Paul speaks at the Wendy P. McCaw Reagan Ranch Roundtable on February 21, 2024, at the Reagan Ranch Center, Santa Barbara.

A full-house crowd of 300 or so (including me, your not-so-humble correspondent) descended upon the Reagan Center on lower State Street in Santa Barbara recently to hear Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul summarize his latest book (“Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up”) and, naturally, to sell and sign them.

We were not disappointed.

Mr. Paul spoke at the end of our lunch (after an invocation given by Tawny Kilpper and a standing, hands-on-hearts Pledge of Allegiance led by SBHS’s Milan Jegottka). Senator Paul began with a short tale of his hair, after Reagan Ranch Roundtable Emcee Andrew Coffin disparaged his own rather bad and unusual haircut.

Rand laughed as he recounted an experience with a fan who had grabbed his hair during an event, just to see if it was a toupee or not. “Hey lady,” he said, “I’ll kiss your baby but just get your hands off my hair!”

It was not a toupee. It really is his hair.

He thanked his wife of 33 years, Kelley, not only for putting up with him but for the hard work she put into co-authoring the book. The couple have three sons (Duncan, William, and Robert).

“You’d think after thirty-three years, that when I go to Washington at the beginning of the week and I come home,” he quips, “that she’d be greeting me at the door with, a hug, kiss, maybe martini.”

But no-o-o, not for him.

“Do you know what she says?” he asks the assembled, not expecting an answer:

“How come Fauci is not in jail [yet]?”

Rand Paul suggests that at times, he thinks about moderating his message, giving Dr. Fauci some credit for his long history, or whatever, but he’s reinforced by his wife, who insists that he is guilty of lying and other crimes and that her husband shouldn’t let up. “Go after him [Fauci],” she admonishes.

Paul isn’t sure what else he can do at this point, however, as he’s referred Dr. Fauci for prosecution for lying to Congress. “It’s a felony,” Paul says, “punishable for up to five years in prison; if he were part of the Trump administration, guess what?”

We know “what.” They’d prosecute. “That’s what they did” to others during the Trump years, he says.

He agrees that there are currently two systems of justice in the U.S. and expresses his bafflement and frustration with the arrogance of the Biden team. The Senator says he’s written a detailed response that shows Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about never having funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan.

“But there's two systems of justice here… We have [Fauci’s] response saying he knows they're doing gain of function. He knows he funded it.”

Yet nobody on the other side has lifted a finger to help get at the truth of a pandemic that took so many American lives and others around the world.

“Merrick Garland is worthless,” Paul says. “He would barely even respond that he's acknowledged that he got [my] letter.”

When Senator Paul asks for government records under the Freedom of Information Act, he gets “nothing but resistance from the Biden administration.” Nor does he receive any help from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the National Institutes of Health, where Fauci ruled.

Senator Paul confesses that prying information from the Washington bureaucracy has been “a nonstop slog for three years.”

And he’s a Senator, with real standing. Imagine if you, Mr. Private Citizen, were trying to ascertain what really happened during the Covid years.

Good luck with that.

Senator Paul reveals that when he did get something he’d asked for – in this case a 250-page document containing a summary of coronavirus research –, what he received was 250 pages of redacted information.

Every single page was completely blacked out.

That was so infuriating that even the Democrats joined with Republicans – unanimously! – to demand that all Covid records be de-classified.

So far, they’ve received…

“Nothing.”

Most of what Congress has asked for is not classified to begin with. What Senator Paul is trying to determine is “who made the decision that it was safe to send our money to Wuhan, that these experiments were safe, that somebody had to make a deliberation.”

Good luck with that.

Franz Kafka would understand. Kafka’s protagonist “K” in his famous novel, “The Castle,” is not only stymied from receiving any information from the bureaucracy, but he is also prevented from even gaining access to the castle where he hoped to begin his search.

Bureaucracy rules in The Castle.

And it rules in Washington, D.C.

Even for Senators who are presented as the pinnacle of power in the nation’s capital, second only to the president, but who are treated as unworthy supplicants and are regularly snubbed by an arrogant and apparently all-powerful presidency.

This is not the way things are supposed to work in our “Constitutional Republic.”

Three “equal” branches of government?

Don’t count on it.

He and his wife have uncovered a profound conspiracy among doctors, scientists, politicians, and the press that, in any other time and with any other subjects would produce resignations, guilty verdicts, and jail time.

They will not in this case.

Next week and probably four or five weeks following, we’ll delve into the full results of Senator Rand Paul’s sleuthing and discuss his answer as to what if anything a Senator or Congress can do in the face of resistance from an administration that refuses to cooperate with Congress.

I’ll give you a hint:

Not much.

Santa Barbara Current’s Editor-in-Chief, Jim Buckley speaks one-on-one with US Senator Rand Paul.

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