- Senator Rand Paul said Sunday that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s retirement will not preclude him from being part of investigations into COVID-19
- Comes after Elon Musk tweeted: ‘My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci’
- ‘Fauci’s resignation should not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic,’ Paul tweeted on Sunday.
- Added: ‘His policies destroyed lives’
- Fauci is leaving his post this month after serving as President Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor in the first half of his term
- He will receive the largest-ever government pension, making more than the president’s salary in his first year of retirement
Rand Paul said that even though Dr. Anthony Fauci is retiring, it does not disqualify him from being investigated or called to testify before Congress in any probe related to COVID-19.
The Kentucky GOP senator brought up the prospect after new Twitter CEO Elon Musk called for the prosecution of Fauci in a tweet that poked fun at people declaring their pronouns.
‘My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,’ Musk wrote early Sunday morning.
Fauci announced in August that he would be stepping down from his post in December ‘to pursue the next chapter’ of his career.
He served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and assumed the role of Chief Medical Advisor to the President when Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
Fauci will receive the highest-ever government pension with a predicted payout of $414,000 in his first year of retirement.
