The walls and evidence are slowly building around Dr. Anthony Fauci

Sen.Rand Paul is examining Dr.

Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone and says he is taking a special interest in whether it contains evidence of “deletions.”That’s significant because Fauci’s former factotum, David Morens, is awaiting trial on charges of concealing and destroying government records, allegedly on behalf of his boss, and is facing up to 51 years in prison.Not that many people know that, since only one reporter covered his arraignment in May: The Post’s own Josh Christenson.Paul may have bigger ambitions for Fauci than the criminal referral for contempt of Congress he sent off to the DOJ last week, after the former COVID czar pleaded the Fifth an excruciating 111 times in his Senate committee testimony rather than come clean with the American people about why he funded dangerous gain-of-function research in China’s Wuhan lab.If Fauci can be shown to have concealed or destroyed government records, then he could find himself sitting alongside Morens in the dock, depending on how robust his last-minute pre-emptive autopen pardon from Joe Biden proves to be.In previous data dumps from Paul’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Fauci is already on record telling two associates to delete emails.On February 2, 2020, in the early stages of the pandemic, Fauci wrote to his boss Dr.

Francis Collins, then director of the NIH, about the WHO’s handling of questions about the origins of COVID: “Please delete this email after you read it.”On July 20, 2020, Fauci emailed his chief of staff, Greg Folkers, about Paul’s accurate claim that Florida’s handling of COVID was more successful than New York’s, writing that the senator, a licensed doctor who volunteered at a Kentucky hospital during the pandemic, was “full of s–t”, before instructing Folkers to “please delete this e-mail after you read it.”Fauci declared in sworn congressional testimony in 2024 that he never deleted official records and has repea...