Ted Cruz argues that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be jailed for ‘lying’ to Congress

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested on Thursday that Dr. Anthony Fauci should face perjury charges for “lying under oath” to Congress about the origins of COVID-19. 

The Texas Republican made the comments condemning President Biden’s former chief medical advisor at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, just days after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Energy now believes that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese laboratory. 

“There has been no person who has done more to destroy trust in the scientific and medical community than Dr. Anthony Fauci, who told millions of Americans lies willingly, knowingly, glibly and supremely arrogantly,” Cruz told the crowd at CPAC. 

“In any sane system, he would be prosecuted for lying under oath, and he would go to jail for lying under oath to Congress,” Cruz said.

 Fauci — who retired at the end of last year after more than five decades in government – has long dismissed the so-called “lab-leak theory” of COVID-19’s origin, calling it at one point a “shiny object that will go away in times.”