{"id":1950548,"date":"2023-06-18T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-condemns-bill-gates-ties-to-funding-gain-of-function-research\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:29:05","slug":"rand-paul-condemns-bill-gates-ties-to-funding-gain-of-function-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-condemns-bill-gates-ties-to-funding-gain-of-function-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul criticizes Bill Gates&#8217; support for gain-of-function research funding."},"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\">20<\/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%2Frand-paul-condemns-bill-gates-ties-to-funding-gain-of-function-research%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=1950548&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=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>3:18 PM \u2013 Sunday, June 18, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul demands responsibility from both the United States and China for unleashing havoc on the planet. He alleges that they nurtured an environment for the COVID-19 virus to hop species and spread globally.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>During an exclusive interview with Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo, Paul advocates for a reduction in gain-of-function research and reiterates his assertions that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Wuhan, China facility via research financed by U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe blame equally should go not only to Chinese authorities, but to Anthony Fauci\u00a0and all those who advocated for this,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, Bill Gates has been over there recently. Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities. What happened in China is they went 8 to 10 hours south of Wuhan, 2 to 300 feet deep into a cave, found viruses and took them back to a city of 15 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, the Kentucky senator, who has openly criticized former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, widened his attack to Bill Gates, stating that while he may possibly be \u201cwell-intended,\u201d he also may be sponsoring \u201cthe greatest danger to mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201c[Many scientists think] we don\u2019t need to be searching for viruses that may never interact with man, and it\u2019s worse than that,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThey bring viruses that we may never interact with. They bring them back to the lab, but then they manipulate them by combining them with other viruses to create viruses that don\u2019t exist in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThis has largely been funded by Bill Gates, who funds the W.H.O. more than most countries do. So there\u2019s a responsibility there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Returning to his criticism of Fauci, he claimed that he played a role in a \u201celaborate cover-up\u201d involving gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is said to be financed by the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHe knew from the very beginning not only was he funding the Wuhan research, but he was going around the regulatory apparatus to let it happen, even though the rules said it shouldn\u2019t have happened without more scrutiny,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a man, Anthony Fauci, who said in 2012 that this kind of research to create new viruses was so important that even if a pandemic should take place, that it\u2019d be worth the knowledge. I think there\u2019s several million people, particularly a million Americans, who would question whether that was good judgment or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To put a stop to gain-of-function research, Paul calls on an &#8220;international consortium of countries&#8221; to agree to limit the practice, warning that if they do not, the next pandemic might be far worse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere are people estimating that the next time this happens, the next time we have a leak from a lab, that between five and 50% of the population could die from another manmade virus. So this is very, very serious,\u201d he maintains. \u201cThis is up there with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-folds-over-nuclear-arms-control-deal-with-russia\/\" title=\"Biden folds over nuclear arms control deal with Russia\">nuclear arms control<\/a>. This is up there with the danger of nuclear war. But this is much more insidious. It\u2019s harder to trace. But still, millions of people can die from a manmade virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This should actually say 3 years. See literally everything I\u2019ve said about COVID since 2020 for more information. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lClcEIjpPZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/lClcEIjpPZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1670453615721365504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After Bill Gates met with China\u2019s Xi Jinping, Antony Blinken\u2019s meeting comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-ukrainian-soldier-dies-in-donbas-amid-rising-tensions-between-kyiv-moscow\/\" title=\"Another Ukrainian soldier dies in Donbas amid rising tensions between Kyiv &#038; Moscow\">amid rising tensions<\/a> and China\u2019s plans to spy on the U.S. from Cuba.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>California proposes taking so-called affirmation of a child\u2019s gender identity into account in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrats-pass-legislation-to-create-transgender-sanctuary-state\/\" title=\"California Democrats Pass Legislation to Create Transgender Sanctuary State\">child custody disputes<\/a>. Here\u2019s One America\u2019s Sam Valk with more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>This week has been filled with major headlines in the US and around the world. One America\u2019s Rachel Acenas has more in our Week in Review.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Guggenheim Baseball Management, which owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, is going ahead with their salute to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Friday services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram were restored, more than two hours after\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Microsoft, which is seeking to buy games giant Activision, faces two legal fights in coming weeks with U.S. antitrust enforcers\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 The U.S. affiliate of crypto giant Binance has carried out a round of\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAN&#8217;s Brooke Mallory, Senator Rand Paul urged accountability from the US and China for their alleged contribution to the global spread of COVID-19. 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