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Senator Rand Paul promised “bombshell revelations” against Dr. Anthony Fauci, vowing to take down the former chief medical adviser to the White House.

“We now have emails that show [Fauci] saying that he knows it was gain-of-function, that the virus looked manipulated, and that he was worried that this came from the Wuhan lab,” the Kentucky Republican said during an interview with Fox Business. “February 1, 2020, then he spent the last three years saying ‘nothing to see here.’ We also know that there was a safety committee that should have reviewed this and we know that Anthony Fauci went around the safety committee.”

“This is a bombshell revelation, and this will eventually bring down Anthony Fauci,” Paul said.

Newsweek reached out to Paul’s press office via email for comment. Newsweek’s attempts to contact Fauci via email were unsuccessful.

The comments by Paul this week come as he has continued to criticize Fauci over concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. In February, The Wall Street Journal published a report from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) which determined with a “low confidence” rating that COVID-19 originated from a lab in China.

In 2021, the FBI made a similar determination of where the novel coronavirus came from with a “moderate confidence” rating.

Earlier in the pandemic, Paul went after Fauci during a Senate hearing to discuss possible origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director was questioned about gain-of-function research, which relates to the altering of a virus or disease, increasing transmissibility, in the hopes of later developing a vaccine.

“On May 11, you stated that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely to the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi [Zhengli] and was funded by the NIH,” Paul said during a hearing in 2021.

In response, Fauci hit back at Paul saying “Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly, and I want to say that officially: You do not know what you are talking about.”

Earlier this week, Paul said that Fauci should “without question” face jail time over issues relating to the origins of COVID-19.

“In public, he’s saying, ‘Oh, if you say it came from the lab, you’re a conspiracy theorist, you’re crazy, it’s a fringe theory,'” Paul said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week. “But in private, he’s saying, ‘We’re very concerned because the virus appears to be manipulated and we’re also very concerned because we know they’re doing gain-of-function research in Wuhan.'”

In March, Fauci responded to criticism and calls for him to be prosecuted, saying: “I mean, prosecute me for what? What are they talking about? I mean, I wish I could figure out what the heck they were talking about. I think they’re just going off the deep end…It doesn’t make any sense to say something like that, and it actually is irresponsible.”