The exchange between the NIAID director and Kentucky senator became heated quickly.
on the pandemic response convened by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions quickly took a personal turn when the senator accused the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of trying “to destroy the reputations of other scientists who disagree with him.”
Dr. Fauci in turn said that “in usual fashion” Sen. Paul was “distorting everything about me,” referencing the bitter feud between the two fromHe contended that the senator was using “a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain” and that Paul was personally attacking him “with absolutely not a shred of evidence of anything you say.”
The nearly nine-minute exchange was punctuated by interruptions and raised voices and only ended because of time constraints.“What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family and my children with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me,” Fauci said of Paul.
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