WATCH: Fauci Held Private Phone Calls With CCP Researchers in the Early Stages of COVID-19

The dominoes are falling on the “wet market” COVID-19 origin theory as more signs point towards a lab leak being the cause of the virus.

And like a rat attempting to escape a sinking ship, Dr. Fauci is trying to distance himself from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and CCP scientists.

But reporters who aren’t authoritative mouthpieces brought the receipts.

A recently unearthed clip reveals that Fauci had contact with CCP researchers going back to February 2020.

At a Council on Foreign Relations event, Fauci explained to a reporter why he trusts the information coming from China.

Fauci delves into his private phone calls with CCP researchers and their ability to be transparent about what’s going on in China.

Despite this revelation that Fauci had contact with scientists who likely had early knowledge of the COVID-19 outbreak, he continues to deny the NIH’s involvement and funding of gain-of-function research.

There’s undeniable proof that Fauci’s NIH funded risky research with bat coronaviruses.

But the question that remains is what did Fauci learn from CCP researchers in February 2020?

Here’s the latest:

🚨WATCH: Fauci Brags Of Private Calls With Chinese Communist Party Researchers.https://t.co/i5zhuTEoT3

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) May 24, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci engaged in private phone calls with Chinese researchers regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, despite the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director’s recent attempts to distance himself and his agency from Chinese labs. https://t.co/6yqLFaa70Y

— H L Wegley (@hlwegley) May 24, 2021

Fauci's HUBRIS will be will be his Narcisse moment.

WATCH: Fauci Brags of Private Calls With Chinese Communist Party Researchers. https://t.co/8RcOwDBTo5

— Kenneth R. Hoefle (@KennethHoefle) May 24, 2021

Here he is telling an audience how he has been in close contact with the Chinese scientists all along, while the Chinese govt will not release the info they have, Fauci already has it. https://t.co/oAEXMvvmSC

— BREXIT-MapMan (@BrexitMapman) May 24, 2021

Watch the clip below:

The National Pulse had the scoop:

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The relationship Fauci divulges during an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in February 2020 undercuts the top pandemic advisor’s recent claims that his agency has no ties – via funding or personnel – to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

At the event, “Coronavirus Outbreak and Global Health Threats,” Fauci was pressed by a Radio Free Asia journalist on why he “trusts the information China is providing” related to the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Today, I do for the following reason,” he begins before alleging that the Chinese Communist Party isn’t silencing doctors who share COVID-19-related information that goes against party narratives:

“What has changed in China is that the Chinese officials have been more than adamant about actually punishing people who are holding back information, whereas early on, there was a reluctance and a hesitancy on the part of the scientists to talk about what really is going on there.”

“So, there was a phase early on where the people who I knew – people that I’ve dealt with for years – who were very concerned about speaking out publicly, they would speak to me over the phone, but they wouldn’t speak publicly. Now they feel that the government is giving them the free rein to be completely transparent,” Fauci continues.

The private phone calls with researchers knowledgeable of the outbreak – perhaps from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – are at odds with Fauci’s insistence his agency never collaborated on gain of function research relevant to COVID-19. The unearthed comments also follow The National Pulse highlighting the Wuhan Institute of Virology erasing mentions of both gain of function research and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) from its website.