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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’
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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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‘There’s something going on’: Scientists acknowledge the severity of ‘long vax’ as well as their reluctance to pursue research that might furnish skeptics with a ‘sensational headline’
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‘There’s something going on’: Scientists acknowledge the severity of ‘long vax’ as well as their reluctance to pursue research that might furnish skeptics with a ‘sensational headline’

Science, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has just published damning admissions substantiating fears about COVID-19 vaccines that would have up until recently been verboten to express online.

Just as there is allegedly “long COVID,” in which persons who contracted the virus suffer various symptoms long after they should have recovered, the American medical establishment now appears comfortable admitting there is similarly “long vax.”

After the obligatory claim that COVID-19 vaccines have saved lives, Science correspondents Gretchen Vogel and Jennifer Couzin-Frankel noted that COVID-19 vaccines aren’t just causing side effects, such as “abnormal blood clotting and heart inflammation,” but have been linked to “a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid.”

“You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” Dr. Anne Louis Oaklander, neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School, told the journal. “But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20. …. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Vogel and Couzin-Frankel suggested that symptoms of vaccine fallout “can include persistent headaches, severe fatigue, and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure. They appear hours, days, or weeks after vaccination and are difficult to study. But researchers and clinicians are increasingly finding some alignment with known medical conditions.”

One of these conditions is reportedly small fiber neuropathy, whereby “nerve damage can cause tingling or electric shock-like sensations, burning pain, and blood circulation problems.”

Another is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which can manifest as “muscle weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, and brain fog.”

The National Institutes of Health noted in December 2022 that researchers examining linkages between COVID-19 vaccines and “uncommon side effects” had found “a slight increase in the number of people who have experienced postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) following vaccination.”

Some patients are reportedly unfortunate enough to suffer “features of one or both conditions.”

Peter Marks, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which oversees vaccines, told the journal, “We can’t rule out rare cases” where vaccines have triggered small fiber neuropathy or POTS and further stressed the importance of health care providers taking “seriously the concept [of] a vaccine side effect.”

However, Marks appears to be worried that admitting vaccines are hurting people in the long term could give rise to a “sensational headline” that would, as Vogel and Couzin-Frankel phrased it, “mislead the public.”

The article alludes to the German health minister’s recent acknowledgement that COVID-19 vaccines, which were similarly de facto mandatory in his country, have been shown to result in long-term consequences.

Karl Lauterbach, the minister in question, reportedly told Christian Sievers of the ZDF Heute Journal that what has happened to people affected by vaccine injuries “is absolutely dismaying and every single case is one too many. I honestly feel very sorry for these people. There are severe disabilities, and some of them will be permanent,” adding “1 in 10,000 is the frequency of serious side effects.”

DW reported that the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the German Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Drugs, “has registered 333,492 cases of suspected harmful vaccination side effects and 50,833 suspected cases of serious side effects since the start of the vaccination campaign: a reporting rate of 1.78 per 1,000 vaccine doses.”

Vogel and Couzin-Frankel stressed that researchers studying the long-term fallout of the vaccines, such as Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale University, are worried about “undermining trust.”

Krumholz reportedly indicated he was initially reluctant to “dive in” for fear of bringing to light truths that might be seized upon by vaccine critics.

Notwithstanding his reservations, Krumholz said, “I’m persuaded that there’s something going on” with these side effects. “It’s my obligation, if I truly am a scientist, to have an open mind and learn if there’s something that can be done.”

Krumholz and Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki have started a post-vaccination study called LISTEN, for Listen to Immune, Symptom and Treatment Experiences Now, reported the New York Post.

They are attempting to “understand long COVID, post-vaccine adverse events and the corresponding immune responses by collecting information about symptoms and medical history from participants.”

Theirs is not the only show in town, however.

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center analyzed a health database of nearly 300,000 people in Los Angeles, all of whom had received at least one COVID-19 shot.

“They found that within 90 days after a shot, the rate of POTS-related symptoms was about 33% higher than in the 3 months before; 2581 people were diagnosed with POTS-related symptoms after vaccination, compared with 1945 beforehand,” Vogel and Couzin-Frankel indicated.

Some researchers suspect that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, delivered by the vaccines, may be responsible for “long vax,” as it may instigate an immune overreaction and destabilize ACE2 signaling.

Although the specifics of how precisely the vaccines are upending some patients’ lives are presently being worked out, Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University, is certain about the consequences.

Postvaccination illness is “a long, relentless disease,” said Purpura.

In recent years, amid a broader effort to censor down vaccine skepticism, the Biden White House has pressured social media companies to silence those who raised concerns about the short- and long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccines, including Tucker Carlson.

While curbing dissenting views and squelching expressions of concern, the Biden administration imposed vaccine mandates, knowing full well there were “breakthrough” infections despite COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to how they were sold to the public.

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Rogan says the 2020 election was rigged by the media: ‘It’s wild sh** and no one cares’
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Rogan says the 2020 election was rigged by the media: ‘It’s wild sh** and no one cares’

Joe Rogan is unconvinced that the 2020 presidential election was rigged per se, but is certain the liberal corporate media meddled to guarantee a particular outcome.

In the July 4 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the titular podcaster, joined by comedian Tom Segura, broached the subject of possible voter fraud in both recent and forthcoming elections after discussing which among the various controversial remarks made by Roseanne Barr on Theo Von’s recent “This Past Weekend” podcast got it yanked from YouTube.

Barr had questioned how President Joe Biden could have won the 2020 election with “the most votes of any presidential candidate in history” while also winning a record-low number of counties.

“I don’t know if there was some shenanigans with the election. I guarantee you it wasn’t zero percent,” said Rogan. “How much voter fraud was there? It’s never zero.”

In pursuit of greater clarity, Rogan appealed to a USA Today “fact-check,” which stated, “With over 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. It is also true that he won a record-low number of counties – but counties vary by population size, from those with a few hundred people to others with millions of residents, so county wins don’t correlate with the popular vote.”

This appeared to momentarily assuage the host’s concerns, but then he called to mind a recent security assessment of Georgia’s Dominion voting machines that allegedly found “dangerous vulnerabilities,” then pulled up a CNN report noting the software won’t be updated until after the 2024 election.

While still reluctant to conclude the election was meaningfully steered one way or the other by possible hackers or other rogue actors, Rogan stated that even if the 2020 election wasn’t rigged in the manner suggested by former President Donald Trump, “for sure it was rigged by the media. For sure.”

“Just the Hunter Biden laptop case and the Russia collusion case — just those two things, just those two narratives that they knew were not true, that they pushed out in front of everybody and that we know … had to do with trying to get rid of Trump,” said Rogan.

Segura chimed in, “One overreporting and one underreporting.”

“That is, in many ways … that’s manipulation. It’s manipulation of a public narrative. It’s manipulation of what the people think is real and not real,” said Rogan. “Everybody thought he was in collusion with Russia. It’s what everybody thought.”

The complete Durham Report released in May revealed that the FBI’s Russian collusion investigation into then-candidate Trump was from the get-go a stitch-up predicated upon a false claim, originally approved and advanced by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Durham indicated the FBI “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations” made in the infamous Steele dossier — allegations long laundered with other baseless claims by the liberal media and top Democrats, resulting in some outfits receiving once-esteemed awards.

Rogan cited Fox News as the only major mainstream media outlet that didn’t overwhelmingly push the false narrative, adding that “everybody else was pushing it.”

“It was sold hard,” said Segura.

“And it was not true,” added Rogan. “And it’s proven not true. And there’s the Hunter Biden laptop thing, which they knew was true and they said wasn’t true. … They stopped people from sharing it on social media. They stopped people from sharing it on Twitter. Zuckerberg sat in that very chair and said the FBI contacted Facebook and told them it was ‘Russian disinformation.'”

“It’s wild sh** and no one cares,” concluded the host. “No one’s up in arms. No one’s freaking out. ‘Cause that is a way that you’re gonna rig an election without rigging an election. Whether you like [Trump] or not, we have to follow the rules. We have to. And if we don’t follow the rules ’cause you don’t like somebody and we break the law because we don’t like somebody, we don’t want them to win, that’s banana republic sh**.”

That the media, big tech, and the administrative state apparently conspired against Trump to prevent him from remaining in office and did so without consequence is “scary,” said Rogan, adding the intelligence community ultimately made good on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s threat — that “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

Rogan likened this apparent totalitarian reflex to that wielded online to silence dissenting voices, calling it “dangerous.”

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Top NIH official admitted to COVID origins scientists he used personal email, deleted messages, and scrubbed Fauci’s ‘fingerprints’ to avoid transparency: Report
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Top NIH official admitted to COVID origins scientists he used personal email, deleted messages, and scrubbed Fauci’s ‘fingerprints’ to avoid transparency: Report

A top adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health appears to have tried his best to ensure the American people wouldn’t know what he and the scientists looking into the origins of COVID-19 were privately discussing while publicly downplaying the lab-leak theory. His best efforts at obfuscation were evidently not good enough.

Records obtained by the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have revealed a troubling admission by David M. Morens, senior scientific adviser to the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was up until recently Fauci, reported the Intercept.

Morens admitted in correspondence with Fauci’s gang of like-minded virologists that he opted to use a personal email account and delete the exchanges thereon to evade Freedom of Information Act requests.

“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” Morens reportedly wrote to the top scientists involved in figuring out where COVID-19 came from, including the head of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, whose subcontractor Ben Hu conducted deadly gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was reportedly one of the first infected with COVID-19; virologists Robert Garry, Kristian Andersen, and Edward Holmes, who were authors on a Fauci-commissioned and -edited report used to downplay the lab-leak theory; and others.

“Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” continued Morens, “but not my NIH computer.”

Suspecting that his Gmail account had been hacked by “[gain-of-function] assholes,” Morens told the lab-leak deniers that he might have to “occasionally email” from his NIH account.

“Don’t worry,” Morens reassured. “Just send to any of my adresses and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”

Morens revealed that he wasn’t alone in the desire to hide the truth in a July 2021 email, where he noted, “Tony [Fauci] doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories.”

Just as Fauci apparently did not want his fingerprints on origin stories as it regards the possible manufacture of a deadly pathogen that killed well over 1 million Americans, Daszak similarly can be seen in the email exchanges panicking over losing control of the narrative.

In a September 7 email, Daszak wrote, “The lab leakers are already stirring up bullshit lines of attack that will bring more negative publicity our way — which is what this is about — a way to line up the [gain-of-function] attack on Fauci, or the ‘risky research’ attack on all of us.”

Morens responded, “Do not rule out suing these assholes for murder.”

In addition to advocating for litigation against experts holding alternative viewpoints, Morens used his official capacity at the NIAID to “disparage reporters and belittle his fellow scientists,” according to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In one instance, he stated, “Ebright and his ilk are not only NOT experts but are harmful demogogues [sic].”

Dr. Richard H. Ebright is an esteemed professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University who likely drew Morens’ ire for having highlighted a few of Fauci’s apparent lies to Congress and for his sharp criticism of dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

The subcommittee indicated “these are just a few egregious examples,” noting Thursday they had requested all of Morens’ personal email and cellphone records related to COVID-19 origins.

Among the requested documents and communications requested were any to, from, or referencing the Wuhan lab, EcoHealth Alliance and its subcontractor Ben Hu, or the other two patients zero, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu.

Select Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) penned a letter to Morens Thursday, stating that these documents “suggest you may have used your personal e-mail to avoid transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), potentially intentionally deleted federal records, and acted in your official capacity to disparage your fellow scientists, including by encouraging litigation against them.”

“Further, your e-mails also raise concerns that you may have knowledge or information suggesting Dr. Anthony Fauci … wished to influence the COVID-19 origins narrative without his ‘fingerprints,'” wrote Wenstrup.

The Intercept indicated Morens had not responded to a request for comment. Scott Amey, the general counsel at the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight, told the Intercept that Morens may have revealed himself to have violated agency regulations as well as civil and criminal record retention laws.”

“His comments in that email are certainly worth an investigation by the agency, the agency inspector general, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Department of Justice,” said Amey.

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Professional basketball player dies suddenly of heart attack, 28-year-old previously blamed COVID vaccines for myocarditis after collapsing on court
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Professional basketball player dies suddenly of heart attack, 28-year-old previously blamed COVID vaccines for myocarditis after collapsing on court

A professional Dominican basketball player reportedly died suddenly this week from a heart attack. Óscar Cabrera Adames had previously collapsed on the court during the game and subsequently blamed the COVID vaccine for his “damn myocarditis.”

Cabrera collapsed on the court during a game in December 2021, when he was 26 years old. He fainted during the game in Spain and was transported to a local hospital.

“Óscar Cabrera, a Dominican player who is part of the Cantbasket club, is under observation at the Valdecilla Hospital, after suffering a syncope during the EBA League game that the Cantabrian team played against CB Santurzi, which led to the suspension of the match in the absence of 2.49 minutes for the conclusion of the first quarter,” the report stated.

Fox News reported, “Following his death, social media posts surfaced in which Cabrera Adames suggested he developed the rare heart disease after he received two doses of a COVID vaccine.”

Óscar Cabrera Adames allegedly wrote in a previous post on Instagram, “I got a damn myocarditis from taking a f***ing vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me.”

Cabrera said the COVID-19 vaccine was a requirement for him to play professional basketball, and that he had no pre-existing health conditions.

“But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn’t work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain,” he reportedly said. “I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING! I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died. I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing.”

He purportedly added, “I have no cholesterol, no fat, nothing! 7% body fat 93% muscle. When they give me the diagnosis, they tell me that I won’t be able to play for at least 5 months until my heart goes down again and they can’t give me that medicine.”

According to the American Heart Association, “Myocarditis is a serious though rare condition where inflammation develops in the myocardium, or middle muscular layer of the heart wall. Myocarditis can weaken the heart and its electrical system. As a result, the heart’s ability to pump blood declines. The condition may be acute and resolve quickly. Or it may be chronic, lasting longer than two weeks. In severe cases, myocarditis may lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or death.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, “Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been observed following receipt of COVID-19 vaccines used in the United States. Evidence from multiple monitoring systems in the United States and around the globe support a causal association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (i.e., Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech) and myocarditis and pericarditis.”

Citing a study, NBC News reported last month, “An overactive immune response to the mRNA COVID vaccines may be the culprit in rare cases of heart inflammation seen in some young men after they receive the shot.”

On Thursday, Cabrera suddenly died at age 28 while reportedly undergoing a stress test at a health center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Dominican sports commentator Héctor Gómez said of Cabrera’s sudden death on Instagram, “Basketball player Óscar Cabrera has just died of a heart attack while performing a stress test, at the age of 28.”

Outkick reported, “During the test, a medical professional attaches electrodes to the patient’s chest. These electrodes connect to a machine that records the electrical activity of the heart (ECG). By watching this screen, doctors can record the heartbeat while the patient exercises. But this stress test was too much for Cabrera, and it caused a heart attack.”

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EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor  among COVID-19 ‘patients zero’ at Wuhan lab: Report
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EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor  among COVID-19 ‘patients zero’ at Wuhan lab: Report

A damning new report indicates Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci, and the Chinese military-co-opted Wuhan Institute of Virology all have their fingerprints on research that may have ultimately resulted in the deaths of over 1.1 million Americans and well over 6.9 million worldwide.

Federal documents recently obtained as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal the NIAID and United States Agency for International Development funded an EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor’s work on coronaviruses to the tune of $41 million.

That subcontractor, listed as an investigator on the grants, was Ben Hu, whom TheBlaze previously noted was the WIV’s lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses and among the “patients zero” — having been one of the three lab researchers first infected with COVID-19 in November 2019.

Alina Chan, molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, said, “Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli. … He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanized mice. If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.”

The White Coat Waste Project has obtained federal accounting records through a 2021 FOIA lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health that confirm Ben Hu had his name on American taxpayer-funded grants awarded by the then-Fauci led NIAID and the USAID.

According to the grant form, an EcoHealth-administered grant of $3,586,760 from the NIAID was marked “pending” for a project titled “understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence” for work to be undertaken from June 2019 through May 2024. The same project had previously received $3,086,735 in American taxpayer money from NIAID between June 2014 and May 2019.

The grant form further indicated that USAID had poured $38 million into an EcoHealth alliance project titled “PREDICT-2” between October 2014 and September 2019, again with Hu’s name on it.

A USAID spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that the funding for research at the Wuhan lab ended in 2019 and “was part of the agency’s mission to identify and contain pandemic threats. The project provided about $815,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and $39,000 to Wuhan University.”

The White Coat Waste Project noted that “Hu’s animal experiments were being bankrolled with U.S. taxpayer funds from NIAID and USAID grants that received over $41 million,” but that the total amount injected into Hu’s lab has not yet been disclosed by the U.S. government.

“Agency stonewalling and reporting loopholes made it incredibly challenging to follow the money from government agencies to the Wuhan lab, but the documents make it clear that U.S. taxpayer money funded some of Hu’s experiments,” Anthony Bellotti, president of WCW, told the Journal.

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.”

The WCW summarized its findings thusly: “U.S. taxpayer-funded Wuhan white coats collect wild coronaviruses from bats in remote caves in China without adequate protective gear, transport the viruses to a lab in a major metropolitan area, do gain-of-function animal experiments to make the viruses more contagious and deadly to humans, and then fall ill with COVID-like symptoms and their identities and medical histories are covered up.”

Investigative reporter Paul Thacker noted that Fauci denied ever funding this research.

Fauci told Congress in May 2021 that the NIH “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.”

According to a January report from the HHS Office of Inspector General, the NIH also knew about potential risks associated with the research being performed in China that had been executed using federal grant money funneled to and through EcoHealth Alliance.

Despite this knowledge, it reportedly “did not effectively monitor or take timely action to address EcoHealth’s compliance with some requirements.”

British zoologist Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, previously called NIH requests that U.S. federal officials inspect the WIV “heinous” and derided suggestions that the virus might have leaked from the WIV as “conspiracy theories.”

Hu did not respond to requests for comment from the Wall Street Journal, as Daszak and the NIH similarly declined to provide comment to Thacker.

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Joe Rogan slams COVID vaccine advocate who called him a ‘neofascist,’ challenges him to big money debate with RFK Jr., then Elon Musk jumps into the fray
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Joe Rogan slams COVID vaccine advocate who called him a ‘neofascist,’ challenges him to big money debate with RFK Jr., then Elon Musk jumps into the fray

Joe Rogan blasted a COVID vaccine advocate over accusing him of spreading health misinformation and calling him a “neofascist.” Rogan challenged the vaccine researcher to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and backed it up with a huge payday for charity.

Peter Hotez is a self-described “internationally-recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development.” Hotez expanded his public profile during the COVID-19 pandemic by making countless appearances on cable news, where he rigorously advocated the COVID vaccine for all ages.

On Saturday morning, Hotez shared an article on Twitter from Vice titled: “Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation.”

Hotez wrote, “And from all the online attacks I’m receiving after this absurd podcast, it’s clear many actually believe this nonsense.”

The Vice article attacked Rogan’s recent interview on Spotify with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a skeptic of the mRNA vaccines and Democratic presidential candidate challenging Joe Biden.

The Vice writer claimed that the interview was “an orgy of unchecked vaccine misinformation, some conspiracy-mongering about 5G technology and Wi-Fi, and, of course, Rogan once again praising ivermectin, an ineffective faux COVID treatment.”

The writer asserted that “The Joe Rogan Experience” episode promoted “Kennedy’s most dangerously incorrect views, a far too extensive list to outline in full, all of which Rogan accepted uncritically, his mouth quite often literally agape in awe.”

Rogan fired back at Hotez on Saturday night with a challenge, “Peter, if you claim what RFK Jr. is saying is ‘misinformation’ I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.”

Hotez responded to Rogan, but then quickly deleted the tweet, “Be serious Joe, that’s what you throw out for your hunting buddies on a weekend. $50 million endowment (which You/Spotify/RFK Jr. can easily afford), not for me but so we can continue making low-cost patent-free vaccines for the world’s poor. Preceded by RFK Jr.’s public apology.”

Hotez replied to Rogan, “Joe, you have my cell, my email, I’m always willing to speak with you.”

Rogan slammed Hotez, “This is a non-answer. I challenged you publicly because you publicly quote tweeted and agreed with that dogs**t Vice article. If you’re really serious about what you stand for, you now have a massive opportunity for a debate that will reach the largest audience a discussion.”

The prolific podcaster added, “To those misunderstanding what he’s saying, he’s NOT agreeing to debate @RobertKennedyJr. He’s just offering to come on my show by himself.”

Rogan shared a reported screenshot of a May 2023 tweet from Hotez claiming that he was “concerned” about a “pretty formidable coalition with neofascist leanings” that included Rogan, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, and Tucker Carlson.

Hotez later deleted the tweet because he said, “I decided to take down my tweet on the Tucker-Elon alliance. Some very smart people I respect thought my concerns were premature or shouldn’t be labeled at this point. Another, too over-the-top. I agreed, guess we’ll see what unfolds.”

Rogan asked Hotez, “Are you sure I’m not a part of a coalition with neofascist leanings? Seems like that’s what you really think, or what you’re projecting to the masses.”

RFK Jr. accepted the challenge, “Peter. Let’s finally have the respectful, congenial, informative debate that the American people deserve.”

Elon Musk jumped into the fray by replying, “Maybe @PeterHotez just hates charity.”

Musk asked Hotez if he “endorses” Vice, then shared a 2007 Vice article documenting Columbian women who have sex with donkeys.

Musk told Rogan on Twitter, “He’s afraid of a public debate, because he knows he’s wrong.”

Hotez lashed out at Musk, “Seriously Elon? This is monstrous. 200,000 Americans needlessly perished (including 40,000 Texans, our neighbors) because they were victims of antivaccine disinformation during our awful Covid delta/BA.1 waves in 2021-22. Please don’t do this.”

Musk retorted:

“First of all, I am generally pro vaccine. I have been vaccinated against pretty much everything, as have my kids. Second, I think there is tremendous promise in synthetic mRNA. It is like medicine going from analog to digital. That said, the world obviously went crazy with excess vaccination against ‘Covid-19.’ I have that in quotes, because the RNA sequences changed so much that I called it the virus of Theseus. So many people I know had serious side effects from the vaccines, including myself. Failure to acknowledge that is a lie. As for the deaths you claim are due to COVID-19, why is the nation of Sweden still alive!? Just go on Rogan and do the debate.”

Hotez then wrote on Twitter, “Let’s remember what this is about, not a small number of Americans lost their lives from antivaccine disinformation during the pandemic. 200,000 Americans perished, 40,000 from my State of Texas I have nothing personal vs Joe, Elon, RFK Jr. Just hoping to halt more destruction.”

Hotez added, “Not easy to respond when those 3 gang up and tag team. Wish I could be more eloquent and clever when the moment demands, but there you are.”

Hotez later retweeted the Twitter account for the “Sorry Not Sorry” podcast by liberal activist Alyssa Milano, which read: “For the record, @PeterHotez has been on our podcast multiple times. He doesn’t need to debate a science-denier on the podcast of someone who has given platforms to science deniers. He’s already won the debate with the truth.”

Rogan has had Hotez as a guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2019 and 2020.

Rogan previously invited Hotez to debate RFK Jr., but deflected by comparing him to a “Holocaust denier.”

During a previous interview, Rogan challenged Hotez about how he enhances his immunity without vaccines. Hotez admitted that he is a “junk foodaholic,” which Rogan pointed out that there is a “large body of data that connects poor diet to a host of diseases.”

Rogan questioned why Hotez doesn’t regularly take vitamins, and the scientist said he “didn’t think they’re needed.”

Hotez quickly changed the subject, “But you still need your vaccines.”

Rogan rebutted, “But vaccines aren’t going to prevent cancer.”

Earlier this week, independent journalist Matt Taibbi questioned the consistency of COVID vaccine messaging from Hotez during the coronavirus pandemic.

You can watch the entire Joe Rogan interview with RFK below.

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