(LifeSiteNews) — Senator Rand Paul is warning that there are just a few days left for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to charge Dr. Anthony Fauci for his repeated lies to the U.S. Congress concerning funding of gain-in-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

May 11th is the legal deadline for filing an indictment against Fauci for denying under oath his role in funding the research that led to the global COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdowns that delivered devastating economic and social consequences to workers, families, healthcare facilities, and churchgoers. 

Fauci reportedly secretly funded dangerous “gain of function research” – an area of scientific experimentation banned in the United States – at the Wuhan Institute.

“The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history,” said Sen. Paul in an X post that has quickly gone viral, garnering well over two million views and 70,000 “likes.”

“He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent,” declared the Kentucky senator. “And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.”

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead…

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 4, 2026

In May 2021, Sen. Paul famously confronted Fauci on the government’s support for gain-of-function research. Fauci, who in 2012 championed such research, told Paul that NIAID had “never” done it, but Paul cited a grant that the NIAID awarded to the nonprofit EcoHealth to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute. Fauci claimed to Paul that EcoHealth had assured the agency at the time that gain-of-function work would not be done with the money.

.@RandPaul: “Dr. Fauci, do you still support…NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?”

Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect…”

Full video: https://t.co/ILTKlTSQdC pic.twitter.com/t0HxwsWXmm

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 11, 2021

Paul submitted a criminal referral to the DOJ in July 2021 against Fauci for lying to Congress.

Last week, a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci was indicted for the role he played in the cover-up of the origin of the COVID-19 virus.  

David Morens, 78, who served as an adviser to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, was charged with conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting, according to the New York Post. 

“Morens oversaw a now-infamous grant from NIH to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance beginning in 2014 that ended up funneling U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research,” the New York Post noted.

Morens is accused of using his private email to conceal exchanges with colleagues in order to maintain control of Fauci’s preferred narrative that the COVID-19 virus originated naturally from a “wet market” near Wuhan, China, rather than from the lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most – during the height of a global pandemic,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

As a recent LifeSite op-ed stated:

Fauci’s depraved actions triggered a cascade of deadly, soul-crushing policies and events, leaving many individuals, families, communities, and the global economy reeling. 

Despite his denials, evidence points to the fact that he’s responsible for the weaponizing of COVID against the Western world by funding gain-of-function “research” at the now infamous laboratory in Wuhan, China. 

As the virus began sweeping across Western countries, reaping death and destruction, Fauci championed the quick production and the mandatory reception of untested COVID “vaccines,” resulting in the incapacitation and deaths of many – including adolescents and young athletes – who developed myocarditis. 

And though he has denied his role, he appeared to favor the lockdowns across the United States, which trapped people in their homes and brought the economy to a screeching halt.

The “stay-at-home orders” were unprecedented burdens on civil liberties. Thanks to Fauci, the United States effectively existed for well over a year under martial law. 

Some cities encouraged citizens to snitch on their neighbors suspected of skirting lockdown orders. There were scenes of lone surfers and joggers, moms taking their kids to playgrounds, Christians sitting in their cars in church parking lots, and peaceful pro-life abortion protesters being ticketed or arrested and hauled off by police – despite practicing common-sense social distancing. The U.S. felt more like communist East Germany under the Stasi’s reign of terror than the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Many – especially the elderly – died alone, forcibly isolated from their families. Likewise, many families had to wait for months to bury their dead loved ones.

All of it was deemed “inhumane and unnecessary.” 

And with tens of millions thrown out of work while elites continued their lives of privilege unruffled, the most powerful and prosperous nation in the history of the world began to feel more like a third-world country.

With citizens ordered to stay home, businesses forced to shut down, and even church services banned – with violators subject to onerous fines and jail time – it certainly feels that way.

He also insisted on forced mask-wearing and social distancing. Those who disobeyed were viewed as social pariahs, if not criminals.

Employees who asked for religious exemptions from the abortion-tainted COVID “vaccine” mandated by their employers lost their jobs, including airline pilots, medical workers, teachers, firefighters, and policemen. 

It remains to be seen if the DOJ, which failed to act against Fauci during the Biden administration, will now act before the window of opportunity for issuing an indictment closes.