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FDA notes that it has not said ivermectin is safe or effective for COVID-19 prevention or treatment
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FDA notes that it has not said ivermectin is safe or effective for COVID-19 prevention or treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently noted on social media that the agency has not declared that ivermectin is safe or effective for treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

“We’ve seen lots of chatter about ivermectin in the last week. Some of what you’re seeing in videos and social media posts isn’t true,” the FDA wrote. “Although FDA has approved ivermectin for certain uses in humans and animals, it has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19, nor has the agency stated that it is safe or effective for that use,” the FDA continued.

“Health care professionals generally may choose to prescribe an approved human drug for an unapproved use when they judge that the unapproved use is medically appropriate for an individual patient,” another post read. “As always, talk to your health care provider about available COVID-19 vaccines and treatment options. Based on your health history, your provider can help determine the best option for you,” another post stated.

There has been debate over whether ivermectin should be used to tackle COVID-19.

The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel recommends against using the drug to treat COVID-19, according to covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov. “Trials have failed to find a clinical benefit from the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 in outpatients,” the site claims.

But the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance suggests using ivermectin to address COVID-19. “A growing evidence base of dozens of studies around the world demonstrates ivermectin’s unique and highly potent ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication and aid in recovery from COVID-19. Based on this evidence, and on first-hand clinical observations, the FLCCC recommends its use, as part of a combination therapy, in all stages of COVID-19,” the group states.

A note at the bottom of the FLCCC’s website notes that “our protocol is not medical advice – and in no way should anyone infer that we, even though we are physicians, or anyone appearing in any content on this website are practicing medicine, it is for educational purposes only.”

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'Absolutely exculpatory': Lawyer claims special counsel may not have reviewed key documents before indicting Trump
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‘Absolutely exculpatory’: Lawyer claims special counsel may not have reviewed key documents before indicting Trump

The lawyer representing former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said special counsel Jack Smith’s office requested documents “absolutely exculpatory” to former President Donald Trump only after indicting him.

The documents were originally handed over to Smith’s office on July 23, CBS News reported, citing emails confirming their receipt.

A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.

But on Wednesday, Aug. 2, a prosecutor working in Smith’s office reached out to Kerik’s attorney, Tim Parlatore, and requested the same documents, which he described as “absolutely exculpatory,” that he had already sent.

“They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore told CBS News. “Good-faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”

Parlatore’s explanation of the documents touches on a key aspect of Smith’s case and the legal debate surrounding the indictment: Did Trump know his claims about the election were false, or did he truly believe there was widespread fraud that flipped the election outcome? And if he did truly believe that, are his assertions about the election protected by the First Amendment?

The Daily Beast first reported last month that Parlatore had turned over the cache of documents.

“I have shared all of these documents, appropriately 600MB, mostly pdfs, with the Special Counsel and look forward to sitting down with them in about two weeks to discuss,” Parlatore said in a statement on July 25.

That meeting has still not happened.

A representative for the special counsel declined to comment when asked by CBS News.

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MacIntyre: Trump’s indictment threatens to shatter our founding myths
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MacIntyre: Trump’s indictment threatens to shatter our founding myths

Every state is operated by an organized minority, a ruling class. That class may rule by divine right, wealth, the authority granted by their birth, or even in the name of the people, but there will always be two groups: the rulers and the ruled.

Brutal warlords and dictators can rule through raw force for a time, but that is brittle power that can easily snap. Eventually, every regime requires a political formula that grants its rule legitimacy in the eyes of the public. In America and the wider Western world, elections are the only acceptable legitimating mechanisms for state power, while any other political formula is considered authoritarian.

Both major political parties have made a habit of calling the validity of America’s elections into question for decades, but with the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, an incredibly dangerous line has been crossed. The criminalization of political opposition in America threatens to become a common feature of the electoral process, shattering the illusion of legitimacy that has held our decadent ruling class in power for so long.

Conservatives like to see their elections as practical affairs, a contest between two competitors in the marketplace of ideas vying for support and the chance to implement the priorities of their supporters. Once every four years, Americans walk down the supermarket isle and evaluate their choices for president as if they are selecting a brand of toothpaste, then go on about their business. But the relationship between rulers and the ruled is far more metaphysical than most voters are willing to admit.

Americans believe in popular sovereignty, and like the coronation of a king, elections are a ritual meant to affirm their faith in the system by which they transfer authority to the ruling class. Humans will always invest their leaders with some portion of their hopes, dreams, and identity. This might sound silly to modern ears, but one only needs to remember the fainting spells of supporters at Obama rallies or the former president’s speech about causing the waters of Earth to recede after his election to see this manifested on the left. The right’s constant worship of the ghost of Ronald Regan and the numerous pictures of Trump being guided by the hand of Jesus Christ shows that this is not a one-sided affair. When progressives now invoke “our sacred democracy,” they are speaking to a real belief people hold, whether they realize it or not, and the validity of that belief must be protected if a regime is to survive.

Donald Trump now faces three counts of criminal conspiracy and one count of obstruction for repeatedly and publicly questioning the fairness of the 2020 election. It should be obvious that making it impossible to question the fairness of a political process through the exercise of an individual’s First Amendment free speech protections ends any chance at substantive political opposition, and it is obvious. That is the point. The alleged co-conspirators named in the Trump indictment were attorneys who were offering advice to a client. It is not just the ability to question electoral results that is being threatened, but core aspects of due process and freedom of speech that are enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

Questioning the legitimacy of elections is a tradition as old as elections themselves. Voter fraud always has existed and always will exist at some level, and the fervent denial of that basic fact raises questions of its own. The slogan “vote early and vote often” has been jokingly used to refer to the wildly corrupt machine politics of Tammany Hall in New York or various leaders in Chicago. The highly disputed election of 1877, which ended with the installation of Rutherford B. Hayes in the Oval Office, required a back-room congressional deal to keep the nation from tearing itself apart again after the Civil War. American history is full of examples, but in general elections have conveyed legitimacy because individuals could exercise their right to free speech and raise questions if they felt the process was in some way compromised. Coronations are about the rigid transfer of unquestioned authority. Elections are not.

The first election to imprint itself on my political consciousness was the presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore when I was in high school. As a native Floridian, it was impossible to ignore the fact that your home state was the center of the most controversial election in living memory. I vividly remember college professors, media pundits, and Democratic politicians endless challenging the validity of the election and attacking Bush as an illegitimate president who stole an election throughout both of his terms in office. No charges were brought and no one went to jail for their assault on “our sacred democracy.” The ability of the other side to question the election did not create an existential threat to the political system.

Since then, the losing side of each presidential election has never granted full legitimacy to the victorious opponent. A number of Republicans and conservative media personalities questioned Barack Obama’s ability to hold office with the birth certificate scandal in 2008. Democrats lost their minds with the election of Trump in 2016, calling for the destruction of everything from the Electoral College to the Senate before eventually settling on the fake Russian collusion narrative. Celebrities made unbearable montage videos demanding the removal of the duly elected president, and Senator Kamala Harris claimed that voting machines had been hacked right in front of her eyes. None of these people were threatened with criminal charges for questioning the validity of elections.

There are, of course, blatant examples of election interference in our recent past, but no one in power seems to care very much. The Democratic National Committee conspired with the Hillary Clinton campaign to rig the primary against her populist opponent Bernie Sanders. Sanders is a grifter and a coward who immediately sold his delusional supporters down the river for a pat on the head, so no one makes much of it now, but the subversion of democracy was obvious and no one paid a price.

Thanks to the Twitter files, we know that multiple divisions of the state security apparatus pressured social media companies to suppress or completely lie about critical information like the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election. Time magazine even had the unimaginable hubris to print a victory lap article about the secret shadowy cabal that saved the 2020 election. We do not need to speculate about burst water pipes and magical ballot drops at 3 a.m.; progressive elites have been more than happy to brag about how they subverted the mechanics of the election through mail-in voting, media manipulation, and the direct interference of federal agencies.

Americans may be subjected to endless propaganda about how a corrupt dementia patient won the most votes ever in the most free and fair election in the nation’s history, but the average person is not buying it. An election so free and so fair that anyone who questions it is censored. An election so free and so fair that those who protest it are indefinitely detained. An election so free and so fair that the political opposition must be federally charged and face years in prison.

The last bits of regime legitimacy are being shredded by those who can no longer be bothered to maintain the clown show that has stood in for the rule of law. Our elites are playing recklessly with the most fundamental myths of the nation: the rituals that grant their power validity in the first place. And once those spiritual ties between the rulers and the ruled are broken, things can get ugly fast.

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Sen. Rand Paul files another criminal referral with DOJ alleging Fauci lied outright in Senate testimony

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is once again pushing for Anthony Fauci, former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to face legal consequences for allegedly lying to Congress.

Paul announced Saturday that he had sent an “official criminal referral” to the Department of Justice, citing a Feb. 1, 2020, email wherein Fauci indicated that gain-of-function research had indeed been under way at “Wuhan University” — a private admission that Paul indicated contradicts the former NIAID director’s sworn statements before Congress.

TheBlaze previously reported that the Feb. 1 email, recently released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, was addressed to Robert Kadlec (then assistant secretary of Health and Human Services), Lawrence Kerr (then director of the Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats within HHS), Brian Harrison (HHS chief of staff), and Garrett Grigsby (then director of Office of Global Affairs Department of HHS).

In the email, Fauci stated as a “fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection.”

Among the scientists known for their dangerous gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was Ben Hu, an EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor among the COVID-19 patients zero whose work was funded in part by Fauci’s NIAID.

Whereas Fauci was privately willing to admit to elements of the medical establishment that deadly gain-of-function research was being conducted in Wuhan, he told Congress another story altogether.

Fauci told Paul during a Senate hearing in May 2021, “The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Fauci doubled down when Paul pressed him on the issue again in July 2021.

Paul asked, “Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11, where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research?”

Fauci answered, “Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress. And I do not retract that statement.”

In addition to suggesting that it was the senator from Kentucky who had been lying, Fauci told Paul, “You don’t know what you’re talking about, quite frankly.”


Exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci

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It turns out, Paul, a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and a practicing doctor before his election to Congress, had known what he was talking about.

Lawrence A. Tabak, acting director of the National Institutes of Health, admitted in an Oct. 20, 2021, letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), that the NIH had in fact funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.

Concerning Fauci’s own admission that gain-of-function research had been conducted in Wuhan, Paul tweeted Saturday, “This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie.”

This is not the first time Paul has implored the DOJ to hold Fauci to account.

Paul wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland in July 2021, urging him to open an investigation into Fauci’s May 11, 2021, testimony, reported the Washington Examiner. Fauci was never charged.

In response to Paul’s latest announcement, Richard Ebright, a board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, wrote, “Fauci flagrantly and repeatedly violated US-government policies implemented to prevent a lab-generated pandemic, likely caused a lab-generated pandemic, and, to evade accountability for his malfeasance, committed fraud, conspiracy to defraud, and perjury. Prosecution is overdue.”

Since the U.S. Senate cannot bring charges against Fauci, it is up to the Biden DOJ to act.

Extra to allegedly misleading Congress about the gain-of-function research, recently released emails also appear to indicate Fauci worked ardently to set the narrative that COVID-19 was not the accidental byproduct of a leak at the Chinese lab, but rather the result of a natural leap from an animal to humans.

He reportedly went so far as to commission and edit the impactful March 2020 study published in the journal Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2,” which he used on the national stage to downplay the lab-leak theory.

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Beijing previously indicated that fewer than 90,000 died in China from COVID-19. Turns out, the number is likely well over 1.5 million —  just in the first few months of 2023.
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Beijing previously indicated that fewer than 90,000 died in China from COVID-19. Turns out, the number is likely well over 1.5 million —  just in the first few months of 2023.

The Chinese communist regime tried to cover up the outbreak of COVID-19 and has done its best in the intervening years to downplay the strong likelihood that the Wuhan lab — known for its dangerous gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses — was the source of the virus that has killed millions worldwide.

The world has grown wise to both deceitful efforts. Now, it appears as though another narrative favored by Beijing is collapsing.

Whereas the Chinese regime suggested that the number of COVID-19 deaths inside China was under 90,000 since the beginning of the pandemic, the number is likely well into the millions — just for the first few months of this year.

As of Feb. 9, China’s official COVID-19 death count was 83,150 deaths.

Researchers at the time suggested this figure was a gross undercount since it only included those infected with the virus who died in hospitals but not those who died at home, reported the New York Times.

According to the Guardian, beside requiring that COVID-19 deaths take place in hospitals to be counted, China also stipulated that only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure following a COVID infection would be counted, meaning sepsis and other complications associated with the virus didn’t factor.

Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the epidemiology department at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, told Time magazine in January the reported number was likely only “the tip of the iceberg.”

On the basis of a report from Peking University, which indicated 64% of the Chinese population had been infected by mid-January, Zhang suggested 900,000 likely had died inside a window of just five weeks, presuming a conservative 0.1% case fatality rate.

Yong Cai, a demographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies mortality in China, told the Times that the official figure was “certainly an underreport of all [COVID] deaths. … There’s no question about that.”

Shengjie Lai, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, intimated that with the hospitals overloaded and the ICU beds maxed out following the relaxation of China’s “zero COVID” restrictions, many Chinese died outside of hospitals.

Earlier this year, the Times provided four estimates from academic teams concerning post-restriction death counts based on: 1) the Shanghai outbreak; 2) travel patterns; 3) recent testing data; and 4) American death rates. The estimates were 1.6 million, 970,000, 1.5 million, and 1.1 million deaths, respectively.

These stood in stark contrast not just with Beijing’s official count but with the World Health Organization’s claim that China has only seen 121,536 COVID-19 deaths since January 2020.

This week, official data briefly appeared on a provincial government website that hinted at the academic teams’ estimates being in the right ballpark.

Cremation tallies were shared Thursday to the government website for the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, reported the Times.

While the data was only available briefly before being taken down, epidemiologists have since had an opportunity to pore over a cached version of the information.

They learned that cremations rose 70% in Zhejiang in Q1 2023 to 171,000 — 72,000 more than in the same period last year.

Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong, reckons that if the new data out of Zhejiang, which has a population of roughly 65.8 million people, is extrapolated to China’s population of 1.4 billion, the death toll is nowhere near the official count but rather “consistent with the estimates of around 1.5 million.”

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Hong Kong reportedly also reached a rough estimate of roughly 1.54 million deaths from December 2022 through March on the basis of the cremation figures.

The Times further intimated that the cremation figures, coupled with substantial declines in life expectancy around China, are together indicative of untold carnage. If the real death count ever comes out of China, it will likely dwarf America’s.

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Rapper Ice Cube on refusing COVID vaccine: 'Your health is worth more than all the money in the world'
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Rapper Ice Cube on refusing COVID vaccine: ‘Your health is worth more than all the money in the world’

Rapper and actor Ice Cube recently sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” and discussed his decision not to take the COVID vaccine, even though doing so cost him millions of dollars.

In 2021, O’Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, was scheduled to star in the comedy movie “Oh Hell Nah,” now titled “Stepdude,” alongside Jack Black. However, the role offer worth $9 million was reportedly rescinded after Ice Cube refused to take the COVID vaccine. “Those motherf*****s didn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot. I didn’t turn it down,” Ice Cube said on a podcast last November. “They just wouldn’t give it to me. The COVID shot, the jab … I didn’t need it. I didn’t catch that s*** at all. Nothing. F*** them. I didn’t need that s***.”

In an interview released on Monday, Ice Cube told Morgan that he has “not one regret” about turning down the role or the $9 million. “I felt like your health is worth more than all the money in the world,” Ice Cube explained, “because if you had all the money in the world and you wasn’t healthy, you would use that money to get healthy.”

Though Ice Cube refused the COVID vaccine, he is not against vaccines in general. “I’m vaccinated,” he said, referring to common childhood vaccines. However, he believes the vaccines most people receive as children “have been tested for decades” and that “most side effects” for those vaccines are already well known. By contrast, he called the COVID shot “an experimental drug” with unknown “long-term effects.”

He also suggested that, unlike him, the “pharmaceutical companies” associated with the shots are motivated by money and not improving people’s health. “It’s kind of like the war machine,” Ice Cube said. “You know, if you make the bullets and the band aids, you gonna always wanna be in war. Because it’s profitable.”

Morgan seemed to agree, claiming that taking the COVID vaccine should have been a matter of personal choice once it became clear that the vaccine did not prevent transmission. “Once it was established against what they initially thought,” Morgan said, “that you could still transmit the virus whether you were vaccinated or not, to me, it becomes a personal choice. It’s down to you.”

During the interview with Morgan, Ice Cube wore a hat to promote Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Ice Cube and featuring former NBA players. Royce White, who regularly appears on “Fearless” with Jason Whitlock, recently appeared in a Big3 game with the words “Trump won!” written on the side of his head.

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Dr. Fauci is still receiving taxpayer-funded security and limo — treatment Sen. Paul says is reserved for former presidents
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Dr. Fauci is still receiving taxpayer-funded security and limo — treatment Sen. Paul says is reserved for former presidents

Fox News revealed on Monday that Dr. Anthony Fauci is receiving taxpayer-funded security despite retiring from government service last year.

What is the background?

Last month, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, requesting information “regarding Dr. Fauci’s employment status and receipt of taxpayer-funded benefits.” Though Fauci touted his plan to retire from government service at the conclusion of 2022, Paul wrote that “it is not clear if that is in fact the case.”

“This raises questions about Dr. Fauci’s current employment status and whether he is still receiving certain taxpayer-funded benefits associated with active public service, such as legal counsel and protective services,” Paul said.

What is happening now?

Fox News host Jesse Watters reported that sources told him Fauci was still receiving “’round-the-clock,” government-provided security despite now being a private citizen. His staff followed up with the tip, filing a Freedom of Information Act request.

As a result, the U.S. marshals confirmed that, at the request of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Dr. Fauci is receiving taxpayer-funded security, which includes a limousine and “follow car,” Fox News reported. Documents obtained through the FOIA request showed that the security detail will last through September 2023, but it may be extended.

It’s not clear how much the detail is costing American taxpayers.

Appearing on Watters’ show, Paul confirmed the development.

“We asked HHS early in the summer. We asked is he still working and does he have this limo and does he have a driver and does he have a security detail?” Paul explained. “HHS actually came back to us and said they haven’t been paying for it since January. But then we discovered that Fox did a Freedom of Information Act and a judge forced them to say that, well, while HHS wasn’t directly funding it, the U.S. Marshals were funding it.

“Can you imagine? We asked the government, ‘Are you funding his limo and his driver and his security detail?’ And they say, ‘Oh, we’re not doing it; somebody else is doing it and then we’re reimbursing them’,” Paul continued.

“So it’s a terrible example of the government lying to its representatives and to the people,” the senator declared. “But also, why is a retired guy, the only retired official I know of that gets this kind of treatment is a former president.”

Paul said it remains unclear whether Fauci is also receiving government-provided legal counsel.

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New bombshell email shows Anthony Fauci warning about 'gain-of-function experiments' at Wuhan lab, Rand Paul reacts: 'Orchestrated a cover-up'
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New bombshell email shows Anthony Fauci warning about ‘gain-of-function experiments’ at Wuhan lab, Rand Paul reacts: ‘Orchestrated a cover-up’

Dr. Anthony Fauci previously admitted that it was a “fact” that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were known to be conducting “gain-of-function experiments” on bat viruses, according to a newly surfaced email.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released an email from Fauci dated Feb. 1, 2020. The email was sent to Robert Kadlec (then assistant secretary of Health and Human Services), Lawrence Kerr (then director of the Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats within the HHS), Brian Harrison (HHS chief of staff), and Garrett Grigsby (then director of Office of Global Affairs Department of the HHS).

Fauci began the email by discussing a meeting with Jeremy Farrar – the director of the Wellcome Trust, an influential global charitable foundation focused on medical research. The meeting also included “highly credible scientists” and then-National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins.

Fauci said the scientists were “concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”

“The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan,” Fauci wrote.

“Upon considerable discussion, some of the scientists felt more strongly about this possibility, but two others felt differently,” said Fauci – who previously served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “They felt that it was entirely conceivable that this could have evolved naturally even though these mutations have never been seen in a bat virus before.”

Fauci continued, “The reasons for each side of the argument are too complicated to bother you with.”

The former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden concluded that a large “internationally credible organization,” especially the World Health Organization, should investigate the Wuhan lab-leak theory. Fauci said Farrar and Collins would contact Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.

Fauci added, “They pass no judgment at all at this point and feel that the group’s mandate should be: ‘What are the evolutionary origins of 2019-nCov, important for future risk assessment and understanding of animal/human coronaviruses.'”

Fauci claimed, “In this way, there is no assumption of foul play or guilt on anyone’s part and merely an intense scientific look at the evolutionary origins of this virus. Where that leads remains to be seen.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) commented on Fauci’s exposed email: “In case you needed any more proof Fauci orchestrated a cover-up… Now ask yourself why…”

Paul has clashed often with Fauci about NIH-funded gain-of-function experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

During a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions regarding the pandemic response in May 2021, Fauci responded to questioning by the Republican senator from Kentucky, “Sen. Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely, entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.”

During a July 2021 Senate Health Committee hearing on the federal government’s COVID-19 response, Paul challenged Fauci, “Dr. Fauci, as you are aware, it is a crime to lie to Congress. On your last trip to our committee on May 11, you stated that the NIH ‘has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'”

Paul mentioned the relationship between Dr. Shi, a bat coronavirus expert from the Wuhan lab, and the EcoHealth Alliance that had received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Paul said, “And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH.”

Fauci responded, “Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement.”

Fauci has pushed the zoonotic origin theory throughout the pandemic, while dismissing the possibility of a lab leak as a “conspiracy theory.”

In January 2020, Kristian Andersen – a virologist at Scripps Department of Immunology and Microbiology – wrote Fauci an email noting that he and three other scientists “all find the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory” of the coronavirus origin.

In March 2020, a group of scientists published a letter titled: “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Fauci approved and often cited the letter, which condemned the “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” and the paper declared, “We do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

This week, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic proclaimed that the letter was a “cover-up” and the authors believed that accepting the lab-leak theory would cause “unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”

In 2016, health officials at the NIH and NIAID expressed concern about gain-of-function experiments at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to surfaced government emails.

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Scientists involved in Fauci’s apparent ‘cover-up’ of possible COVID lab origin admit effort was ‘political,’ out of fear of a ‘sh** show from China’

Anthony Fauci
told Americans to “follow the science.”

Following the facts, the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has found that Fauci, with the help of then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and a cadre of willing virologists, “employed fatally flawed science” to “avoid blaming China for the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The subcommittee indicated that to date, it has received over 8,000 pages of documents and over 25 hours of testimony from those involved in the impactful March 2020 study published the journal
Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2.”

Despite
privately discussing the prospect that the natural-origins theory was rubbish, the paper’s four official authors — Kristian Andersen, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes, and Robert Garry — concluded with dogmatic certainty, “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

The authors did not specify in the publication’s ethics declarations that then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who oversaw the funding of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, commissioned and edited the paper — which congressional investigators have since
determined he did.

This is all the more troubling because Fauci repeatedly cited this paper on the national stage, including once from the White House podium, to bolster his and Collins’ preferred zoonotic origins theory.

On Monday, the subcommittee
published additional damning correspondences between the paper’s official authors, noting, “This is one of the single most impactful and influential scientific papers in history … express[ing] conclusions that were not based on sound science nor in fact, but instead on assumptions.”

The subcommittee concluded that this is “the anatomy of a cover-up.”

It appears from the correspondence that those who worked ardently to set the narrative that COVID-19 was not the accidental byproduct of a leak at the Chinese lab where dangerous experiments were conducted on coronaviruses knew their cause was “political” and sought not jeopardize “international harmony.”

The subcommittee highlighted Monday how Rambaut, communicating with his coauthors over a private Slack channel on Feb. 2, 2020, wrote, “Given the sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possible distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural processes.”

In reply to Rambaut’s suggestion that they run a smoke screen for a regime that may be responsible for the manufacture and spread of a pathogen that killed millions worldwide, Andersen said, “Yup, I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but its impossible not to, especially given the circumstances. We should be sensitive to that.”

The subcommittee released another email sent by Ron Fouchier — one of the scientists who was on the Feb. 1, 2020, conference call with Fauci and the paper’s future authors — wherein he too expressed concern about the possibility of China facing any fallout over the pandemic.

Fouchier claimed, “An accusation that nCoV-2019 might have been engineered and released into the environment by humans (accidental or intentional) would … do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”

Collins, also on the conference call, intimated in a Feb. 2, 2020, email that a united front behind the natural-origin theory “is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”

The NIH under Collins
long provided federal funds to EcoHealth Alliance run by fellow lab-leak theory denier British zoologist Peter Daszak. EcoHealth’s subcontractor Ben Hu, whom TheBlaze previously noted was the WIV’s lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses, happened to be among the three lab researchers first infected with COVID-19 at the Wuhan lab in November 2019.

The subcommittee identified two possible motives behind the apparent efforts to downplay the lab-leak theory: The virologists either wanted to “defend China and play diplomat” or “lessen the likelihood of increased biosafety and laboratory regulations.”

The subcommittee did not raise the possibility that those in Fauci’s orbit might have also wanted to displace the possible culpability that elements of the Western medical administrative state might share with Chinese communists over the deaths of millions.

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'He caused a lot of injury': RFK Jr. says he would prosecute Fauci as president and 'not hold off' if 'crimes were committed'
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‘He caused a lot of injury’: RFK Jr. says he would prosecute Fauci as president and ‘not hold off’ if ‘crimes were committed’

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put Anthony Fauci on notice during his interview with Jesse Watters Monday, stating that as president, he would sic his attorney general on the retired National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director “and not hold off” if criminality on his part could be demonstrated.

The Fox News host first raised the matter, saying, “You think Fauci is the devil. Would you prosecute him if you ever got to the White House?”

“If there were crimes that he committed, of course,” said Kennedy, currently trailing President Joe Biden by
nearly 50 points in the polls. “I would tell the attorney general to prosecute him and not hold off.”

“Do I think that he committed crimes? I think he caused a lot of injury … particularly, by withholding early treatment from Americans. You know we racked up the highest death count in the world? We only have 4.2% of the globe’s population but we had 16% of the COVID deaths in this country and that was from bad policy.”

“There’s countries that did the opposite of what we did, that provided Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, other early treatments to their populations, and had 1/200th of our death rate. So there are many things that we did wrong in this country,” continued Kennedy. “Some of the things that were done by public health officials at that time that they knew that they would be harmful.”

Kennedy has made no bones in recent years about his conviction that Fauci has played a leading role in the “global war on democracy and public health.”

The presidential candidate’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” came out in 2021, detailing how, contra to the notion manufactured by the “pharma-funded mainstream media” that Fauci is a hero, “He is anything but.”

In the book, Kennedy accused Fauci of various misdeeds and failures, including:

  • championing an approach to “ending an infectious disease contagion [that] had no public health precedent and anemic scientific support” that was “grossly ineffective,” as reflected in “the world’s highest body counts”;
  • working to suppress and smear viable alternatives to COVID-19 vaccines that were reportedly relatively inexpensive and historically safe;
  • wielding “formidable power to fortify the pharmaceutical industry’s explosive growth and its corrosive influence over our government regulatory agencies and public health policy” for five decades;
  • managing the NIAID “much more like a drug company than any sort of agency to advance science”;
  • treating American and African children “as collateral damage … in pursuit of profitable pharmacological solutions for steadily declining public health”; and
  • promoting purported remedies such as quarantines “often more lethal than the diseases they pretend to treat.”

RFK Jr. further indicated to Watters that the Biden administration has been reluctant to punish China over the alleged Wuhan lab leak because American institutions helped bankroll the deadly research in the first place and transferred NIH-funded bioweapons to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
reported the Daily Caller.

TheBlaze
previously noted that federal documents recently obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed that the NIAID under Fauci and the United States Agency for International Development funded an EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor’s work on coronaviruses to the tune of $41 million.

That subcontractor was reportedly Ben Hu, who ran lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab and was one of the first infected with COVID-19 in November 2019.

The Wall Street Journal
reported that much of Hu’s research “focused on modifying coronaviruses so they could bind to human cells. The stated purpose of the research was to identify viruses that could lead to a pandemic and facilitate the development of a vaccine.”

Fauci
told Congress in May 2021 that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology” and made similar denials on multiple other occasions.

Then-Principal Deputy Director of the NIH Lawrence A. Tabak appeared to undercut Fauci’s denial,
writing to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Oct. 20, 2021, that EcoHealth’s “limited experiment” in Wuhan tested whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”

These mice “became sicker,” according to Tabak, who added, “EcoHealth failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant.”

Records recently obtained by the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic further revealed that David M. Morens, a top adviser to Fauci at the NIH, was admittedly trying to keep Fauci’s “fingerprints on origin stories” amidst an apparent effort by the NIAID director and his colleagues to downplay the possibility that a leak at the lab they funneled taxpayer money to might have been the epicenter of the pandemic that killed millions of Americans.

After Kennedy suggested to Watters that the CIA was involved in the research at the Wuhan lab and that “USAID … was functioning as the CIA surrogate,” the Fox News host asked the 69-year-old son of assassinated former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of assassinated former President John F. Kennedy whether the CIA still has the ability to execute political assassinations.

“I couldn’t say yes or no to that question. I think that there is — I couldn’t say. Even with my uncle’s assassination, you can’t really say the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. You can say members of the CIA, people working for the CIA were definitely involved. People like E. Howard hunt, David Atlee Phillips. David Morales. People who have confessed to it. Many of them death bed confessions. They may have been operating on a rogue basis, rather than the CIA doing it,” answered Kennedy.

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