Covering up Fauci’s role in COVID leak: Devine

Fauci insisted before Congress in May and again in July that the National Institutes of Health never funded this sort of research. But, regardless of how Fauci personally defines the term gain of function, the upshot is that the Frankenstein research conducted in Wuhan with American money has been fingered as the most likely source of the virus that has killed millions of people. 

Fauci could have explained to Congress, as he did in a 2011 Washington Post op-ed, that creating a dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking. That was an establishment scientific position until 2015 when the Obama administration, under pressure from scientists worried about a lab leak of a deadly virus, placed a pause on the research in the United States. 

Fauci could have explained that outsourcing this dangerous research to a Chinese lab was not a sneaky backdoor way around the pause. 

He could have explained that, back in 2014 and 2015, collaboration with China was acceptable and commonplace, not the traitorous act it is now considered to be. 

He could have explained why he never told anyone in the Trump White House that his agency had funded research on bat coronaviruses in a lab at the epicenter of the emerging viral panic in ­Wuhan at the end of 2019. 

He could have explained why he ignored emails sent to him by virologists last February saying the virus looked under the microscope as if it might have been engineered, and why he vehemently maintained until quite recently that it came from the wild and not from a lab leak. 

via nypost.com