Thread by @RandPaul

Today, a CIA whistleblower sat before my committee and confirmed what I've said for years: government officials, including Dr. Fauci, deliberately misled the American people about the origins of COVID-19. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is sworn testimony. 🧵

Let me be clear about what we know. Taxpayer dollars funded risky gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci denied it under oath. The evidence says otherwise.

Today's whistleblower revealed a coordinated effort inside the intelligence community to suppress dissenting views on COVID's origins, including a January 2020 briefing that flagged a possible Wuhan lab origin. That briefing was buried. The American people were kept in the dark.

Federal records were deleted. Investigations were obstructed. Emails show a deliberate campaign to silence scientists who questioned the narrative. This is not incompetence. This is a cover-up. And it cost lives.

I've subpoenaed 14 federal agencies for records on COVID origins and risky research. I've referred Fauci for criminal prosecution multiple times for allegedly lying to Congress. I've uncovered evidence that he deleted official records. The stonewalling has been relentless.

USAID funneled $54 million to EcoHealth Alliance to collect bat coronaviruses and transport them to Wuhan for gain-of-function research. I demanded answers from the Biden administration. I was stonewalled. USAID kept sending money for years after the connection was exposed.

Now about that pardon. Biden's autopen pardon of Fauci may not be valid. If Biden did not personally sign it, it is legally suspect. The only way to test it is for the DOJ to charge someone covered by one of these pardons. I have a suggestion for the test case: Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Six years later, millions of people are dead. Trillions of dollars were spent. Our civil liberties were shredded by mandates and lockdowns. And the man at the center of it all has never faced a single consequence. That ends now.

The American people funded this research. They were lied to about it. They deserve full transparency and real accountability. I will not stop until they get it. The fight for truth goes on.