House conservatives are urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to be more proactive in addressing President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged political opponents and those who went after Trump before the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These Republicans want<\/a> Dr. Anthony Fauci and New York Attorney General Letitia James imprisoned for what they see as politically motivated efforts to undermine Trump. They also want federal criminal charges brought against Democratic mayors who have provided shelter to unauthorized immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another target is Biden administration bureaucrats, who Republicans claim waste federal taxpayer money by promoting DEI, climate change, and other leftist agendas. Several Republicans also voiced concern with Bondi\u2019s tardy release of the Jeffrey Epstein materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several House Republicans have accused<\/a> Fauci of lying to Congress and covering up a government conspiracy about the origins of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is continuing his legal pursuit of Fauci, the now-retired chief of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was the face of the country\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul has accused Fauci of lying to Congress over his claim that the U.S. government never funded dangerous gain-of-function research in China, where the outbreak reportedly began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2021, Fauci testified before a Senate committee where the Kentucky Republican was a member and said under oath that the U.S. \u201chas not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology\u201d in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But in newly released emails dated February 1, 2020, the then-NIAID director wrote that \u201cscientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While those emails do not contain smoking gun evidence of guilt, Fauci, under oath, denied that the National Institutes of Health, under which his agency fell, funded such research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, \u201cthe Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined last month that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did receive NIH funding,\u201d according to the UK\u2019s Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a tweet, Paul said he had referred Fauci \u2014 again \u2014 to the Department of Justice to pursue a criminal investigation for allegedly lying to Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve referred Anthony Fauci to the DOJ (again) for lying to Congress when he denied the NIH was funding of gain-of-function research in Wuhan,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLast week\u2019s release of an email in which Fauci confirms that research in Wuhan was gain-of-function adds to an email where his assistants label it GoF as well. Likely nothing more conclusive than catching a liar lying with his own words!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n