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Rand Paul vows to keep pressure on Fauci as statute of limitations on criminal referral expires Monday

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The statute of limitations on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s criminal referral for lying to Congress about gain-of-function research expires Monday, but Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is vowing to keep up the pressure on «the COVID coverup» with a Senate hearing this week.
«David Morens, Dr. Fauci’s top advisor, was indicted, but Fauci himself still walks free,» Paul, who has long pressed Fauci in heated exchanges in congressional hearings, wrote this week on X, continuing his urging of the Justice Department to pick up charges from his criminal referral despite former President Joe Biden issuing a sweeping preemptive pardon of Fauci on his last night in office Jan. 19, 2025.
«The DOJ has 5 days to indict Fauci before the statute of limitations runs out. The clock is ticking. Justice cannot wait.»
The Biden pardon and Fauci’s statute of limitations expiration Monday shields the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to Biden, but Morens was indicted late last month for having «deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19.»
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Sen. Rand Paul questions Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal response to monkeypox on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
«For years, I warned that Fauci and his inner circle buried the truth about Wuhan,» Paul wrote Wednesday on X. «Now his closest adviser has been indicted.
«Fauci lied to Congress under oath. The statute of limitations expires in 5 days. Will the DOJ finally indict Fauci?»
The Trump Justice Department under former Attorney General Pam Bondi or acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has made no public statements about bringing charges.
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«While we can all have our beefs with Congress, this isn’t in our hands any longer,» Paul wrote Thursday on X. «I DID the work, investigated, and sent multiple CRIMINAL referrals to the DOJ.
«Whether he is indicted or not now is not up to Congress. It is up to the DoJ, and no one else.»
«He lied to Congress about NIH funding dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan and engaged in the worst cover-up in modern medical history,» Paul added in another X post. «The American people want Fauci behind bars.»
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Dr. Anthony Fauci gives an opening statement during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal response to COVID-19 and new variants on Jan. 11, 2022, at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Sen. Rand Paul also speaks during the hearing titled «Addressing New Variants: A Federal Perspective on the COVID-19 Response.» (Greg Nash/AFP/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump has publicly rejected the Biden autopen pardons as having no force or «legal effect,» but there is no precedent for a new president nullifying a past president’s pardons, because they would potentially render presidential pardon authority ultimately powerless against a new administration’s agenda.
«Anyone receiving ‘Pardons,’ ‘Commutations,’ or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect,» Trump wrote in December on Truth Social.
Just two days after the Fauci clock runs out, Paul is chairing a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs committee hearing with a «COVID coverup» whistleblower Wednesday.
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«Next week I’m holding a hearing with a whistleblower who will testify publicly about the COVID coverup,» Paul teased in an X post. «Mark your calendars: Wednesday, May 13 at 10 a.m.
«The truth is coming.»
Paul renewed a criminal referral to the DOJ last July to investigate whether Fauci’s May 2021 statements violated federal false-statements law. In the referral, Paul pointed to Fauci’s testimony that «the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.»
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Paul’s referral also noted Fauci later said he had «never lied before the Congress» and did «not retract that statement» after Paul warned him about the criminal implications of lying to Congress.
The referral cites a February 2020 email released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, in which Fauci wrote that «scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments» involving bat viruses and human infection.
Paul argued that the email contradicted Fauci’s sworn testimony.
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Paul also cited research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that he said was funded under a NIAID award and involved combining spike genes from bat SARS-related coronaviruses with another coronavirus backbone to create chimeric viruses capable of infecting human cells.
«This research, conducted at the WIV and funded under NIAID Award R01AI110964, fits the definition of gain-of-function research,» the referral stated.
The criminal referral further cites a 2023 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found the WIV and Wuhan University received NIH funding. According to Paul’s referral, the GAO said NIH funded a project that included «genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized coronavirus strains.»
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Anyone who makes a materially false statement in a congressional investigation or review can face fines and up to five years in prison.
Paul’s July referral also challenged the legal effect of a preemptive pardon Fauci received from Biden’s autopen.
«New information has revealed that these pardons were executed via autopen, with no documented confirmation that the President personally reviewed or approved each individual grant of clemency,» Paul wrote. «According to reports, White House staff authorized the use of the autopen to issue the clemency documents.
«This raises serious constitutional and legal concerns about the legitimacy of Dr. Fauci’s pardon.»
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Fauci has repeatedly denied lying to Congress, including forcefully to Paul himself in multiple congressional hearings.
«Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 [2021], where you claimed at the NIH never funded gain-of-function research and move on?» Paul asked in a July 2021 Senate hearing.
«Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,» Fauci shot back.
«Let me finish!» Fauci added, when Paul tried to interject. «Sen. Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially, you do not know what you’re talking about.»
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The nature of the alleged lie revolves around the definition and denials of gain-of-function research surrounding COVID-19.
«You’re dancing around this because you’re trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying around them from a pandemic,» Paul said in the famed exchange, adding, «you are obviously obfuscating the truth.»
Fauci replied, «I’m not obfuscating the truth – you are.»
«You are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals,» he added. «I totally resent that.»
Paul shot back, «It could have been.»
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«If there is any lying here, senator, it is you,» Fauci said, shaking his finger at Paul.
Sitting members of Congress are provided immunity under the speech and debate clause of the Constitution, while most of those investigated by Congress and subject to testifying under oath, which Fauci did.
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Trump blasts Spain migrant surge as ‘catastrophe,’ warns US could face worse if Democrats regain power

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President Donald Trump said Friday during a Cabinet meeting that scenes of migrants flooding into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta from Morocco looked like a «catastrophe,» but that the U.S. could see worse in the future if Democrats regain power.
«You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected,» Trump said Friday at Camp David. «Except worse, much bigger, much easier to get into. Despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do. But if we didn’t have that, forget it. But we have the safest border in the world. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.»
«And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, ‘I’m going to say it because I knew you were going to be at Camp David.’ And I say, ‘That’s going to be a talking point for the midterms, because when you look at what happened to Spain, they don’t know what to do.’ And it’s happening again today,» the president continued. «They’re coming in by the tens of thousands. It’s just invading the country. And what that is weak law, bad management, but very liberal law. They passed a couple of laws and people read, you know, people are smart. They read from other countries, and they swam that 3-mile swim or however they got in.»
«But nobody’s seen anything like it. That will look good compared to what’s going to happen to the United States,» Trump also said. «The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did is allowing 25 million people into our country, because many of those people are criminals. They’re murderers,» Trump also said. «A lot of them are gone now. We got them out. But they allowed people to come into this country that you can’t allow to come into a country.»
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President Donald Trump, center, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, listens during a Cabinet meeting, on Friday, July 31, 2026, at Camp David. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump made similar comments to Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich earlier Friday morning.
«It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,» Trump said.
«If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life,» he warned.
U.S. border security has remained a key plank of the president’s campaign and policy focus throughout his political career.
An English translation of a Friday Spanish-language post on X from Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, «The Government will guarantee the safety of the residents of Ceuta, intensifying the presence of the Security Forces and Corps on the city’s streets.» The post also included a video of him delivering remarks in Spanish.
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Map depicting Spain, Morocco, and Spain’s Cueta, which borders Morocco. (2026 EarthStar Geographics, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors)
Ceuta, which is located along the northwestern African coast and borders Morocco, is not attached to mainland Spain.
«Additionally, we will deploy a physical containment barrier in the sea to facilitate repatriation at the border, in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. We will expedite the repatriation files of the migrants who arrived irregularly. And we will maintain cooperation with the Moroccan authorities to continue fighting against the mafias that traffic in human beings,» the prime minister’s post added.
Around 60,000 migrants had ventured from Morocco to Ceuta over the past 24 hours, Cueta President Juan Jesús Vivas said on Friday.
At least 41 migrants lost their lives.
SPAIN DEPLOYS MILITARY AFTER THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS OVERWHELM BORDER ENCLAVE, AT LEAST 18 DEAD
Spain’s interior ministry issued its own figures not long after Vivas spoke, estimating that some 50,000 individuals came from Morocco since Thursday, adding that half had already gone back to Morocco.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Rúben Amorim admitió errores en el Manchester United y explicó cómo esa etapa marcó su carrera: “Aprendí mucho”

Rúben Amorim reconoció haber cometido “muchos errores” durante su etapa al frente del Manchester United y aseguró haber “aprendido mucho” de aquella experiencia en Old Trafford. El técnico portugués, actualmente al mando del AC Milan, realizó estas declaraciones ante la prensa durante la gira de pretemporada del club rossoneri en Australia, según recogió Sports Illustrated.
El paso de Amorim por el United fue uno de los períodos más turbulentos en la historia reciente del club inglés. Llegó al banco de Old Trafford avalado por dos títulos de la Primeira Liga con el Sporting CP de Lisboa y con la etiqueta de uno de los entrenadores más prometedores del continente.
El United desembolsó hasta 11 millones de libras esterlinas (unos 14,6 millones de dólares) para liberarlo de su contrato con el club portugués. Sin embargo, apenas 14 meses después, el propio club abonó otros 15,9 millones de libras (21,2 millones de dólares) para finiquitar al técnico y a su cuerpo técnico.
El sistema táctico de Amorim, basado en una defensa de tres centrales, nunca encontró el encaje necesario en la Premier League. El United cedía demasiado control del juego a sus rivales y quedaba expuesto a la variabilidad del fútbol inglés. La última vez que un entrenador había logrado consolidar ese esquema en la élite inglesa fue Antonio Conte, cuando ganó la liga con el Chelsea hace una década.
A los problemas sobre el campo se sumó un deterioro progresivo de la relación entre Amorim y la cúpula directiva del club, entre ellos el director deportivo Jason Wilcox. La ruptura se hizo pública de forma explícita tras el empate 1-1 ante el Leeds United en lo que resultó ser su último partido al frente del equipo, cuando el técnico arremetió públicamente contra los responsables del club. En enero de 2026, le rescindieron su contrato.
La llegada de Michael Carrick como su sucesor no hizo sino amplificar el contraste: el rendimiento del equipo bajo las órdenes del excentrocampista inglés contribuyó a agudizar la percepción negativa del legado portugués en Old Trafford.
Desde su nueva etapa en el Milan, Amorim no eludió las preguntas sobre su paso por Manchester. “Lo primero es que ya no importa”, declaró el técnico en rueda de prensa, en declaraciones recogidas por Sports Illustrated. “Esa es la sensación. Hay una historia, luego algo sucede, el contexto cambia y te centras en el siguiente reto”.
No obstante, fue más allá y asumió su cuota de responsabilidad. “Aprendí mucho”, afirmó Amorim. “Sería difícil señalar una sola cosa, pero lo que sé con claridad es que cometí muchos errores. Cuando haces ese tipo de reflexión y entiendes que no era solo culpa de ellos, sino también culpa mía, creo que puedes ser mejor entrenador y mejor persona”, agregó.
El AC Milan le designó como sucesor de Massimiliano Allegri el 15 de junio de 2026, con el encargo de devolverle al club su nivel histórico en la Serie A. Los rossoneri, campeones del Scudetto en la temporada 2021-22, acumulaban dos ejercicios consecutivos por debajo de las expectativas: un octavo y un quinto puesto en las últimas dos temporadas.
El balance del portugués en Old Trafford refleja la magnitud de sus dificultades. Amorim registró los peores índices de cualquier entrenador en la historia del club en tres categorías de la Premier League, de acuerdo con los datos brindados por Sports Illustrated:
- Partidos dirigidos: 63
- Victorias: 25
- Empates: 15
- Derrotas: 23
- Porcentaje de victorias: 39,7% — el más bajo de cualquier entrenador del United en la Premier League (32% en el torneo doméstico)
- Goles encajados por partido: 1,53 — el peor registro en la historia del club
- Porcentaje de porterías a cero: 15% — el más bajo en la historia del club
- Diferencia de goles: +8
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