Lawmakers and other prominent figures tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci after the Energy Department concluded COVID-19 likely leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China — a theory the former White House chief medical adviser repeatedly rejected, the NY Post reports.
The Energy Department’s “low confidence” assessment, included in a recent classified intelligence report sent to the White House and top members of Congress, turned the focus back on Fauci — who retired at the end of last year after more than five decades in government, the last 38 years as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci, 82, had come under fire from congressional Republicans for defending gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, from where COVID-19 is believed to have emerged. The doctor threw cold water on the theory in the months after the outbreak, at one point calling it a “shiny object” in an internal email.
In July of last year, Fauci hedged slightly by saying that he was keeping an “open mind” about the lab leak possibility, only to later insist “it looks very much like this was a natural occurrence.”
He is cunning. He knows where the virus originated best we think. Keeping the durable brink of sleep.
A psychopath who lied and lied. Trump was right. The Chinese did this on purpose.
Nevertheless the rat cannot control the cat. Out of the bag goes he. To the collective blame of our own negligent trust. Repeat the error, receive your pudding. The proof. I cannot stress this enough.
One of the biggest mass murderers in history