Whistleblower’s Damning Testimony Sparks New Wave Of Calls For Fauci Indictment

A handful of lawmakers, most notably Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), have been keeping the rhetorical pressure on the Justice Department to pursue charges against Anthony Fauci over his alleged mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But years later, countless Americans remain frustrated by the apparent lack of any accountability. 

This week, new evidence emerged about the pandemic during congressional testimony from CIA whistleblower James Erdman III whose remarks were consequential enough to fuel new calls for criminal charges to be filed.

The testimony centered on persistent claims that Fauci sought to cover up the true origins of the virus, as the New York Post reported: 

“Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional,” Erdman testified, saying the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) meddled in COVID origins analyses by providing “a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials and scientists” to the US Intelligence Community (IC).

Those included several scientists who joined a February 2020 teleconference that ultimately produced a widely-discredited scientific paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” downplaying the lab leak theory.

As a result, Erdman noted: “The CIA and DNI analytic managers responsible for examining the origin of COVID made decisions inconsistent with the conclusions of subject matter experts and analytical tradecraft, consistently favoring the theory of zoonosis or natural origin.”

Erdman, who has served at the CIA since 2013, has been reviewing the IC’s handling of its COVID origins probe as part of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) from March 2025 to April 2026.

He testified that Fauci twice inserted himself into IC deliberations about the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 — once on Feb. 3, 2020, and again on June 4, 2021 — to stoke a natural origins “narrative.”

In a June 2021 email exchange, Erdman recounted how the leader of a 90-day IC review of COVID origins dismissed concerns from a senior analyst about Fauci’s decision to “inject himself” into the process as a “subject matter expert.”

In addition to elected officials, an array of social media users are also campaigning for charges against Fauci in response to the latest allegations:

It’s been over five years since the Covid scheme was unleashed by Fauci, and others. Why has it taken so long to bring charges against this inept man? https://t.co/d0EUtL8kU9

— BigStone (@BigSton86874792) May 14, 2026

What an evil, anti-American MFer. Fauci deserves to face charges one day. I hope the DOJ has the cojones to one day bring it.

— Testa Incognita (@TestaIncognita) May 14, 2026

The day this malevolent little imp is imprisoned and divested for what he did to the world will be a great day.
He's not off the hook yet by a long shot.
He's America's Joesph Mengele. The sick things they did to those poor beagles reminds me of Mengele's experiments. Except…

— jhawkjoe (@joemill36846262) May 14, 2026

Fox News provided some of the reaction from Capitol Hill:

Following Erdman’s testimony, several GOP lawmakers called for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci to face criminal prosecution for allegedly seeking to suppress the origins of COVID-19. 

“It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci, injecting himself into the IC [intelligence community],” Erdman said when asked by Paul whether the CIA downplayed the likelihood that COVID-19 emerged from a lab leak.

“We just heard testimony that he intervened behind the scenes to try and get our own intelligence agency, CIA, FBI to change their assessment of the lab leak,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Fox News. “Why? Because he helped fund the Wuhan lab. He supported and funded gain-of-function research, and then he tried to cover it up, and then he worked to cover it up from the American people.”

“I hope he’s indicted,” Hawley added.

The hearing on Wednesday came after a statute of limitations deadline for Fauci to face criminal charges regarding that testimony passed earlier this week.

“Whether the DOJ decides to charge Fauci or not, I’m not letting up,” Paul wrote on social media Monday.

ADVERTISEMENT

Here’s a full clip of this week’s hearing: