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MS: One of your criticisms of Fauci is that he said one thing publicly, where he sort of downplayed the virus, & one thing privately, where he acknowledge its seriousness. President Trump did exact the same thing. Does Trump deserve the same level of scrutiny? RAND PAUL: *immediately changes topic*

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Allowing Rand Paul to spew lies is a new low even for the lowly Morning Joe and MSNOW. No push back on the lies and then there will be no follow up with a real expert.

Paul is not just dishevelled in his attire, his brain is scattered. Surely, Paul knows Trump stifled Fauci's voice during COVID. Yes? Paul knows Trump is responsible for the deaths of his "poor, uneducated fans"? apnews.com/article/dona... 'Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office

apnews.com'Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves officeAs President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19.

The thing that makes Rand Paul a Republican isn’t his ideology. He doesn’t believe in anything The thing that makes Rand Paul, Republican is his dishonesty and constant smearing of the people he wants to climbs on to stay in power He doesn’t bring anything else to the table

So, why don't reporters say, "you changed the subject and didn't answer the question?" Tim Russert did that. Reporters let public officials do their okey doke. It is shameful.

This is a lie. You may have questions about GoF research, but it is an absolute and proven lie that the avian influenza virus escaped from a lab in the Netherlands. Do these people ever factcheck these wild and slanderous statements?

Fk these people kentucky better wake up and vote them all out. Start asking constituents of red states if 20 or 30 years of republican hold on their state has made their lives better. If they are struggling now its due to Republicans running their states.

Wait, back up. Did gain of function research in the Netherlands leak a more dangerous avian flu strain? Absolutely not! That debate was about publishing findings so as not to hand bioterrorists a recipe. It's that vs preparedness if H5N1 turns into the next pandemic. We're not prepared, Rand Paul!

So he is accusing Fauci of having created labs to study lethal viruses around the world, including the Wuhan’s lab? What actual fuckery is this? So fauci created those labs with no oversight, just to play sorcerer apprentice and exercise his power, then lied to cover up the consequences. WTF

A decade before we had a SARS outbreak and it was contained very, very fast because the U.S. mobilized quickly and aided the countries affected. In the meantime Obama enhanced this team following the Ebola outbreak in Africa during his tenure and the the Orange idiot disbanded the team.

2 sets of rules at play. Fauci issued statements consistent with Trumps direction & since Trump can't be prosecuted Paul is going after Fauci 4 revenge. Paul the eye doctor doesn't have a clue about infectious diseases. The outrage he & his cohorts had on display was fake poney & fraudulent.

Paul consciously dismisses who was president during covid,who threw out the infectious disease response plan, who offered bleach as a treatment, who said he knew the virus was airborne. IT WAS TRUMP, submit his name 2 DOJ. Why did Paul's neighbor kick that ASS? Violence is never warranted. Well ?

/s/ What? hold the felonious president to the same level of scrutiny, what would be next? Holding him accountable to the law for the 34 felony counts? Holding him accountable to oversight? That's ridiculous. /s/

Note to Rand Paul: While you obsess about tormenting a dedicated, 85 year-old public servant, this is the idiotic Trump narrative on Covid: "Hoax" "Totally Under Control" "Cases Going Down Not Up" "Over by April" "Magically Disappear" America's Imbecile.🙄

I remember when Rachel Maddow had Rand Paul on her show, very early in his career, and she didn't let him slide on anything. It was beautiful. It was also one of the last times a Republican dared to be interviewed by her, which is really sad yet very telling.

can't risk losing that precious access to all those exclusive lies" 😂 seriously though, it's like the whole system is built around keeping the cozy relationship going instead of actually informing people

These fckn republiklans are soo-disingenuous & hypocritical They bend & contort themselves to make their points (cherry picking) Paul is out for Dr.Fauci cause Dr.F is simply smarter than he-is Thats it in a nutshell (republiklans hate people who's smarter than them) THEY HATE INTELLIGENCE🤭

If Jonathan Lemire was a real journalist he would've sat pressing that point point instead of letting Bland Paul ooze out from addressing Trump's culpability like the Blob squeezing under a movie theater door.

Imagine being an oil change “tech” from 15 years ago at JiffyLube being publicly critical of the engineers at Ford Motors who have been designing automotive oil pumps for 50 years. That’s the difference between Rand Paul & Dr. Fauci. Paul is an oil change tech from 15 years ago.

The hypocrisy aside, it's startling how uneducated he is on how science works. Confronted by a new pathogen, scientist hypothesize, sometimes mistakenly pursue directions, but as new evidence arises change their views. And we want to penalize them for not knowing everything from the start.