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Dr. Fauci Hit With Serious Threat From Rand Paul: ‘There Will Be Hell To Pay’
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul conducted a phone interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck this week where he reiterated his commitment to uncovering the truth about the source of the COVID pandemic and holding those responsible for it accountable for their actions, going so far as to issue a threat to Anthony Fauci, saying, “There will be hell to pay.”
Fauci was formerly the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. While speaking with Beck, Paul said he will most certainly be dragging Fauci back into the mix after discovering new revelations concerning laboratory funding.
“Is anyone going to pay for the COVID thing?” the conservative pundit asked.
“We’re not done, and I will bring Anthony Fauci back in. We’ve finally discovered the records as to who determined that the money went to Wuhan,” Paul told Beck.
“They have resisted me for three years. Robert Kennedy has helped me get the records. So has Jay Bhattacharya. This week or next week, I’m gonna begin interviewing the people that are on that committee. We’re gonna find out… what was the debate, what was the discussion, what were the arguments for sending it to Wuhan, what were the arguments against it?” he continued.
Paul then said that they believe that Fauci was the one who had to sign the document, but it hasn’t been found because it’s either hidden away somewhere or it’s been destroyed.
“There will be hell to pay,” he concluded the call.
“There WILL be hell to pay.” @RandPaul gives a fiery update on COVID investigations: “We’re not done, and I WILL bring Anthony Fauci back in. We’ve finally discovered the records as to who determined that the money went to Wuhan.” pic.twitter.com/MwVft0se7h
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) May 14, 2025
“Paul’s feud with Fauci has manifested in numerous rhetorical skirmishes that erupted during congressional hearings. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 until 2022. He was responsible for the U.S. health response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as the coronavirus pandemic,” The Blaze reported.
Paul and Fauci have been locked in a feud for years now over the part the former NIAID director played in the coronavirus pandemic and the United States’ response to it.
In 2021, the two men verbally sparred over whether the country’s top epidemiologist had lied to Congress while delivering testimony saying that he had not signed off on providing funds for gain-of-function research. Some think studies of this kind may have led to the leak of COVID from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
“Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you’re referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,” Fauci told Paul during the hearing. “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially,” Fauci angrily declared. “You do not know what you are talking about.”
