Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on Sunday said he does not “expect to get much out of” Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), during his upcoming Senate hearing.
“I think it’d be very forgetful, completely unrepentant, arrogant, I mean –– arrogant to the extreme,” Johnson told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked about what to expect from Fauci’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee testimony this week.
“Don’t expect to get much out of him, but I’m going to try and lay out all the things that he did that were such a miserably failed response to COVID,” Johnson added before the interview ended.
The committee’s chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), said Fauci was subpoenaedto testify about an alleged cover-up of the U.S.’s involvement in viral research at a Chinese lab where Paul and other Republicans say the virus that caused the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was created.
Paul has claimed, without substantial evidence, that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and somehow escaped as an artificially enhanced virus. He has pointed to Fauci and other health officials as plotting to promote the “lab-leak theory” as a conspiracy theory.
