<p>Senator Rand Paul doubled down Wednesday on his calls to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical advisor &#8220;a menace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just one day after their most recent confrontation — during a Senate hearing on the federal government&#8217;s continued response to the coronavirus pandemic — Paul joined Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; to discuss the situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;When it comes to you and Dr. Fauci, we&#8217;ve seen a lot of these exchanges. Why is it so personal between you two?&#8221; Hemmer asked, noting that both Paul and Fauci had made accusations against each other during the hearing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, the thing is, he has made it very personal,&#8221; Paul replied, accusing Fauci of using his position to go after scientists who dared to disagree with him. &#8220;He makes over $400,000 a year to go after specific scientists, denigrate them, smear them, call them fringe. The three scientists he went after work at Stanford, Harvard and Oxford.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He was ready for that question yesterday and he hit you back,&#8221; Hemmer pointed out, saying that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-catastrophic-epidemic-for-your-political-gain-fauci-comes-to-covid-hearing-with-opposition-research-on-rand-paul/">Fauci</a> had slammed Paul for raising money on his website — where he also lists firing Fauci as one of his primary issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;He didn’t answer the question why is he smearing these three doctors? I’m proud of the fact people go to RandPaul.com raising money to fire Fauci because he is a menace,&#8221; Paul shot back. &#8220;Everything he said has been incorrect. And I think he is part of the problem. Even from the very beginning the fact that this virus came from a lab in Wuhan he has denied it and worked to cover it up and denigrated anybody who raises this question as a conspiracy theorist. So yes, he is a partisan politician and he has no place in any objective role over the pandemic and yeah, it’s a political thing. Whoever wins the election will make the decision whether he stays or goes or whether we investigate where the virus came from in the beginning.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">DR. &#8216;MENACE&#8217;: <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandPaul</a> reacts to Fauci lashing out at him during Tuesday&#8217;s hearing: &#8216;We go after him personally because he attacked others personally with his office.&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/gp6hdm9tRL">pic.twitter.com/gp6hdm9tRL</a></p>
<p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1481170330383126530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Paul&#8217;s main contention with Fauci during Tuesday&#8217;s hearing was that he had joined with former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins in supporting a &#8220;published takedown&#8221; of prominent epidemiologists who argued in favor of governments taking a more measured and targeted approach to the spread of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cheap-politics-rand-paul-puts-fauci-on-blast-during-heated-senate-showdown">The Daily Wire</a> reported:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In an email exchange with Dr. Collins, you conspire, and I quote here directly from the email, to ‘create a quick and devastating published takedown’ of three prominent epidemiologists from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford,” Paul continued.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-whole-host-of-cardinal-sins-desantis-says-fauci-biden-try-to-find-scapegoats-to-mask-covid-failures/">Fauci</a> objected, saying that the email had been written by Collins — at which point Paul argued that Fauci could have responded differently instead of allowing the requested “takedown” to proceed.</em></p>
<p><em>“A published takedown, though, you know doesn’t exactly conjure up the image of a dispassionate scientist,” Paul added. “Instead of engaging them on the merits, you and Dr. Collins sought to smear them as ‘fringe’ and take them down — and not in journals, in lay press. This is not only antithetical to the scientific method, it’s the epitome of cheap politics, and it’s reprehensible, Dr. Fauci.”</em></p></blockquote>

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