Paul addressed Fauci and his defender’s claims that he has a personal vendetta against Fauci and is simply obsessed with embarrassing him. In fact, Paul said he did not really have an opinion on Fauci in the beginning. They weren’t sure at first whether they were getting infected at all, but kids just weren’t in the hospital, and it turns out they were getting infected and just not getting sick.” Federal health officials knew this early on, so children should have been allowed to go back to school, Paul said. I think Anthony Fauci had a self-interest in telling us lies because he was worried that he was responsible for funding the lab research that became the pandemic,” Paul said.