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Rand Paul slams Fauci as 'political animal' after fiery Senate listening to
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sparred as soon as once more with Dr. Anthony Fauci in a Senate listening to on Tuesday, with the lawmaker urgent the director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses on stories he sought to quash "fringe" epidemiologists' coronavirus mitigation methods.
The Kentucky Republican additionally requested Fauci to handle accusations that he's not less than tangentially culpable within the creation of viruses by means of gain-of-function analysis.
Following the listening to, Paul advised Unique News' "The Story" there may be proof on a chance of "90 to 10" that the COVID-19 virus got here from a Wuhan, China, laboratory and was engineered through gain-of-function analysis, regardless of Fauci's denials.
"[Fauci] funded the lab," Paul advised host Martha MacCallum. "He tried to obscure the idea that he was giving money to the lab and then he steadfastly, for two years, said it wasn't gain of function, that they weren't taking viruses that don't exist in nature, creating them and creating viruses that are so dangerous that they could actually wipe out a portion of humanity."
Later, Paul claimed that Fauci and his former boss, ex-NIH chief Francis Collins,orchestrating a "takedown" of three outstanding epidemiologists relating to their coronavirus mitigation theories.
"They orchestrated a takedown campaign in the lay media, not in the scientific journals on the merits, but in the lay media," Paul stated. "And so he didn't want to answer my question, so he accuses me of fomenting violence. But it's a misdirection because he doesn't want to accept that basically, he's become a political animal and that everything he does every day is to further his political agenda, not the science." CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON OUR TOP STORY.
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- WaPo columnist: It is time to make life a 'dwelling hell' for the unvaccinated
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Ted Cruz slams podium over reporter's masks questions: 'Simply as soon as' I might such as you to ask Biden, Psaki about that
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed his fists on a podium in frustration Tuesday as he attacked what he deemed media hypocrisy relating to elected officers carrying face masks or not.
Throughout a information convention talking out towards Democrats attempting to eradicate the filibuster, a reporter questioned Cruz about him and his fellow Republicans not carrying masks. Cruz rapidly shot down the query.
"Just once, I'd like to see a reporter say to Joe Biden, when he stands at the damn podium in the White House without a mask, 'Mr. President, why aren't you wearing a mask?'" Cruz stated angrily. "Just once, I’d like to see you say to Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, when she stands at the podium with no mask, ‘Ms. Psaki, why don’t you have a mask?’
"The questions are solely directed at one aspect," Cruz alleged, "and I received to say that the American folks see the hypocrisy."
Twice, Cruz thumped his hands on the podium for effect.
Prior to this answer, Cruz also called out the "wild hypocrisy" on the part of President Biden and his administration regarding COVID-19 policies. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
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- Cruise industry tries to stay afloat during omicron surge
- CDC Director Rochelle Walensky doubles down on flawed mask study at Senate hearing
- Canadian province announces plan to impose fine on the unvaccinated
- Howard Stern slams Novak Djokovic in profanity-laden tirade over vaccine stance: 'A--hole'
- House sergeant-at-arms says Capitol will remain closed to visitors: 'I'm afraid of COVID’
- Spanish PM urges European leaders to treat COVID-19 as an 'endemic' illness, track it like the flu
Damari Perry death ruled a homicide: Chicago boy burned after freezing to death
Damari Perry, a 6-year-old Chicago boy found dead in freezing temperatures in Indiana on Saturday morning, was killed in a gruesome homicide, a medical examiner ruled Tuesday evening.
Three family members have been accused of forcing the boy into a cold shower on Dec. 30 – making him stay until he vomited and passed out. Then they failed to call for assistance.
The child died – and the suspects allegedly dumped him near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana, according to local authorities.
In a gruesome news release, the Lake County Coroner's Office announced that the pending cause of death was hypothermia – but the statement also described other injuries.
Damari is believed to have frozen to death before his partially burned body suffered "charring," according Coroner David Pastrick. Authorities said they discovered the boy naked and wrapped in a plastic trash bag. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
In other developments:
- Young Dolph murder: Suspect arrested in Indiana, another charged
- Former Oklahoma police officer sentenced to 25 years in murder of daughter’s boyfriend
- Waukesha Christmas parade suspect Darrell Brooks Jr. scheduled to be in court Friday
- Police, law enforcement line of duty deaths in 2021 jumped 55% from year before
- Florida murder trial that ended in mistrial over race is set to start anew
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SOME PARTING WORDS
Tucker Carlson guest Kathy Guillermo, a senior vice president at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Tuesday night, accusing Fauci's federal agency of funneling tens of thousands of dollars into proposed medical research that she claimed would pose harm to monkeys.
"PETA's found the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses spent greater than 200 grand on a proposed experiment that may ‘subject real male rhesus monkeys to feminizing hormone therapy to see whether that makes them more susceptible to HIV to help transgender women,'" host Tucker Carlson said. "It couldn't get uglier."
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