It looks a lot like perjury : Tucker Carlson accuses Dr Fauci of lying to the Senate after emails reveal he feared Wuhan scientists were doing gain of function research - but he told lawmakers they weren t
The Fox News host says a trove of emails from the country s top disease expert indicates he lied about chances that the virus could be manmade
Some emails appear to indicate knowledge of government-funded collaboration with a Chinese lab in Wuhan of research into coronavirus transmission
A senior virologist shared an article in another email suggesting the virus could be a bioweapon from a website that social media companies later banned
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recently released emails prove that he knew the Wuhan Institute of Virology was carrying out a dangerous gain of function research, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) charged Wednesday night.
“The emails paint a disturbing picture, a disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci, from the very beginning, worrying that he had been funding gain of function research,” Paul told Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle”, “and he knows it to this day, but hasn’t admitted it.”
Paul, who has repeatedly tried to bring out the truth in hearings with Dr. Fauci, was referring to a Feb. 1, 2020 email Fauci sent to his top deputy at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Hugh Auchincloss.
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Dr. Antony Fauci and a scientist with a close connection to the Wuhan lab corresponded in April 2020 while the pandemic spread throughout the world. Peter Daszak steered tens of millions of U.S. government dollars to the Chinese lab in order to fund his gain-of-function research projects.
By this time, Fauci had become a vocal opponent of investigating the lab-leak theory, for which Daszak was grateful.
“I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Daszak wrote to Fauci on April 18, 2020.