WATCH: Rand Paul Grills Fauci Over Funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology

If there’s one single person who deserves the most blame for COVID-19, it’s Anthony Fauci.

Under his leadership, the NIH conducted dangerous gain-of-function research in bat coronaviruses and offshored the research to Wuhan when it was declared illegal in the United States.

Believe it or not, even the Obama Administration had enough sense to end the research in 2014.

But Fauci and his NIH cronies pushed forward with their plans and funded the Wuhan Lab through a grant from June 2014 to May 2019.

Despite this being public knowledge for over a year now, Congress is FINALLY putting Fauci under the microscope for his agency’s dangerous research.

Here’s a clip from Rand Paul questioning Fauci:

Fauci blatantly lies to the American people, but you can tell Paul is getting on his nerves by his facial expressions.

And anyone with a brain knows Fauci is lying.

In 2019, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance said in a video interview that he was genetically altering bat viruses in a lab: "You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. The spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus."

Who funded him? Dr. Fauci & NIH.

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) May 11, 2021

"From June 2014 to May 2019 EcoHealth Alliance had a grant from NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, to do gain-of-function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." https://t.co/zxfPho46n7 https://t.co/1iJZtd9rde

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) May 11, 2021

How dangerous was the research that Fauci funded to experiment on the bat coronavirus?

It was so dangerous the Obama Administration stopped it in 2014.

Who wanted to start it again? Fauci.https://t.co/7HPmD9QXon

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) May 9, 2021

THIS IS GOLD: Anthony Fauci has been exposed by Rand Paul for his hand in ‘gain of function’ research that lead to the weaponization of the Coronavirus. Fauci tried to use semantics to get out of it but failed. Investigate him now pic.twitter.com/BzdAsbRdJ3

— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) May 11, 2021

https://twitter.com/JDRucker/status/1392176738138918914

we can go further than this, @RandPaul

Fauci lied. a 2019 @NIH project renewal included Gain of Function research in Wuhan

thank you Senator for being the first person to get Fauci on the record on this. now we must bring the ACCOUNTABILITY. more @NextRevFNC Sunday #FauciLied https://t.co/wSKgL1vMiE

— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) May 11, 2021

"The U.S. gov has assessed that the WIV was conducting gain-of-function research in some form reporter Josh Rogin noted in Politico in March. Jamie Metzl, an expert on gene editing…has also noted that the WIV performed gain-of-function…"https://t.co/vykP5nHSqJ

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 11, 2021

The main question I have is why have they waited over a year to question Fauci about his direct role with the Wuhan Lab?

Here’s a piece from Newsweek in April 2020:

In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.

Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.

SARS-CoV-2 , the virus now causing a global pandemic, is believed to have originated in bats. U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab. (At this point most scientists say it’s possible—but not likely—that the pandemic virus was engineered or manipulated.)

Dr. Fauci did not respond to Newsweek’s requests for comment. NIH responded with a statement that said in part: “Most emerging human viruses come from wildlife, and these represent a significant threat to public health and biosecurity in the US and globally, as demonstrated by the SARS epidemic of 2002-03, and the current COVID-19 pandemic…. scientific research indicates that there is no evidence that suggests the virus was created in a laboratory.”

The NIH research consisted of two parts. The first part began in 2014 and involved surveillance of bat coronaviruses, and had a budget of $3.7 million. The program funded Shi Zheng-Li, a virologist at the Wuhan lab, and other researchers to investigate and catalogue bat coronaviruses in the wild. This part of the project was completed in 2019.

A second phase of the project, beginning that year, included additional surveillance work but also gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit research group, under the direction of President Peter Daszak, an expert on disease ecology. NIH canceled the project just this past Friday, April 24th, Politico reported. Daszak did not immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment.

The project proposal states: “We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.”

In layman’s terms, “spillover potential” refers to the ability of a virus to jump from animals to humans, which requires that the virus be able to attach to receptors in the cells of humans. SARS-CoV-2, for instance, is adept at binding to the ACE2 receptor in human lungs and other organs.

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According to Richard Ebright, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University, the project description refers to experiments that would enhance the ability of bat coronavirus to infect human cells and laboratory animals using techniques of genetic engineering. In the wake of the pandemic, that is a noteworthy detail.

Ebright, along with many other scientists, has been a vocal opponent of gain-of-function research because of the risk it presents of creating a pandemic through accidental release from a lab.

Fast forward to 2021 and Tucker Carlson is bolder saying Fauci let the COVID-19 pandemic happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANeFCFkTteQ&t=2s

My question to Congress now.

Where is the criminal investigation into Fauci?