After months of clashing with Anthony Fauci in Senate hearings, Sen. Rand Paul has referred Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and chief medical adviser to the president, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. Paul argues that Fauci lied to Congress earlier this year about whether the U.S. was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab near where the first COVID outbreak was recorded.
How Criminal Referral Works
What it means that Sen. Rand Paul asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into Anthony Fauci.
