WATCH: Ted Cruz SHREDS Dr. Fauci For Doing ‘More Damage Than Any Bureaucrat’ After Wuhan Lab Leak Exposed

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) unleashed his condemnation with seemingly little restraint against President Joe Biden’s former chief medical advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Monday interview.

Cruz, appearing on Fox Business, let the insults fly after a bombshell report from the U.S. Department of Energy concluded, though with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Laboratory in China.

Dr. Fauci’s behavior has been abominable!

He’s championed policies that have hurt millions of Americans and he has destroyed the government’s credibility to give medical and scientific advice. pic.twitter.com/68fLJlzr1f

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 28, 2023

As reported by The Daily Wire, Cruz told the Fox Business anchor Liz Clamon, “Dr. Fauci’s behavior on this has been abominable.”

“I think he has done more damage than any bureaucrat in the history of the United States. He has championed policies that have hurt millions of Americans, hurt millions of school kids in particular.”

He continued, “And he has also done more to damage the credibility of the United States government when it comes to medical and scientific advice because Dr. Fauci allowed his advice to be politicized.”

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Cruz then pointed to collusion between Dr. Fauci and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to suppress discussion of the lab-leak theory.

“We know Dr. Fauci in writing asked Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook to suppress references to the origin of COVID being from a Chinese government lab,” he said.

Cruz went on to explain, “there’s a very real possibility that Fauci himself bears culpability.”

“I believe Dr. Fauci has lied to Congress, which is a felony, when he has stated that the federal government did not fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he told Fox Business. “Since then, the National Institutes for Health in writing has contradicted that. And if the Biden Justice Department were enforcing the law, they ought to be investigating Dr. Fauci for lying to Congress, which is a federal crime. To date, the Biden DOJ has been too political to hold Dr. Fauci accountable.”

If—God forbid—we have another pandemic, we need to be able to trust scientists.

But people like Dr. Fauci have done incredible damage the credibility of scientists.

It’s dangerous! pic.twitter.com/8Rl5OhWJHx

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 28, 2023

In a later Fox News appearance with Sean Hannity, Cruz added, “So willing to put politics above science that he’s done enormous damage to the credibility of government doctors,” posting the video to Twitter with the caption: “If—God forbid—we have another pandemic, we need to be able to trust scientists.”