{"id":1903671,"date":"2023-03-23T09:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rand-paul-says-fauci-weaponized-the-government-in-lab-leak-cover-up\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:00:12","slug":"watch-rand-paul-says-fauci-weaponized-the-government-in-lab-leak-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rand-paul-says-fauci-weaponized-the-government-in-lab-leak-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rand Paul says Fauci &#8216;weaponized the government&#8217; in lab leak cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-rand-paul-says-fauci-weaponized-the-government-in-lab-leak-cover-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1903671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79513425\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Pressure on Powell to stop raising interest rates, gives first speech since banking crisis\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike, even as fears abound over the stability of the financial system in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. 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The move comes after the Fed conducted another February hike of the same magnitude and a barrage of enormous half-point and 0.75-point increases before that.\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M45S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-22 19:25:07\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/snapshot\/1267539_th_641b565ea2061_1679513182.jpg\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1267539.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_79513425\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1267539\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">S<\/span>en. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) slammed Dr. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/nih-trying-to-keep-taxpayers-in-the-dark-transparency-advocate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>, saying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases used his position to weaponize the government in a cover-up regarding the origin of the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy weaponized the NIAD. He weaponized it to get his supporters,\u201d Paul explained to <i>Jesse Watters Primetime.<\/i> \u201cAt first, they said, \u2018My goodness. It came from a lab.\u2019 And then, all of a sudden, they changed their mind. They got more money. They got more grants.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">              <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.air.tv\/v1\/iframe\/JZPsHPqLRlCCB4lF-jFBtg?organization=MoTlAWfQQXyEPg6AYxEZSw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px;\"><\/iframe>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/two-sexes-biologist-jk-rowling-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018TWO SEXES, AND THAT\u2019S ALL THERE IS TO IT\u2019: BIOLOGIST DEFENDS JK ROWLING\u2019S COMMENTS<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used that grant-making authority \u2014 who gets it \u2014 and he weaponized government to get what he wanted,\u201d Paul added. \u201cAnd that was the cover-up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Paul questioned Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel as he appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. <\/p>\n<p>Bancel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/moderna-ceo-stephane-bancel-covid-vaccine-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended Moderna\u2019s plans to raise the price of its\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccine<\/a> fivefold once it shifts to the private market. The pharmaceutical CEO also denied increased risks of myocarditis for young men between the ages of 16 and 24. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"FacebookEmbed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWashingtonExaminer%2Fvideos%2F785403522577194%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=476&#038;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>               <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paul disputed Bancel\u2019s stance and entered six peer-reviewed studies into the committee\u2019s record as evidence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t find him to be forthcoming or honest, particularly about the myocarditis risk,\u201d Paul told Watters<i>. \u201c<\/i>The thing is they are not being honest because obviously, they are self-interested, and they love the mandates.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Paul further blasted Fauci for benefiting from the policies he made as the former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>In September, watchdog group OpenTheBooks issued a report noting <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/faucis-net-worth-doubled-during-covid-19-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci\u2019s net worth just about doubled<\/a> during the pandemic. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases used his position to weaponize the government in a cover-up regarding the origin of the coronavirus. \u201cThis guy weaponized the NIAD. He weaponized it to get his supporters,\u201d Paul explained to Jesse Watters Primetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1903672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[6883,4434,5045,8459,3654,5531,5530,4516,21279],"class_list":["post-1903671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-cover-up","tag-fauci","tag-government","tag-lab","tag-leak","tag-paul","tag-rand","tag-watch","tag-weaponized"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}