During an appearance before a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the pandemic, declined to answer questions about the origins of COVID-19. Fauci justified his silence by arguing that Republican Sen. Rand Paul had called him to testify in order to put him “behind bars.” On numerous occasions, Paul has argued that Fauci should be in prison because he believes Fauci was responsible for funding research in China that triggered the COVID-19 pandemic. “Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a ‘King!’ Biden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power.