<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-has-a-gigantic-wall-filled-with-portraits-of-himself-in-his-home-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>’s federal science agency and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-nih-letter-about-ecohealth-reporting-failure-raises-new-questions-about-gain-of-function-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EcoHealth Alliance</a>, which took a U.S. grant for bat virus research and paid part of it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, made serious missteps, government investigators said Tuesday.
EcoHealth Alliance did not properly disclose its subgrant recipients—which included the Chinese lab which may have been the origin of COVID—and was two years late in filing a report that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded may have revealed “gain of function,” or experiments which make a virus more dangerous to humans, the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Inspector General said in a <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region5/52100025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">72-page report</a>. Fauci headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which oversaw the grant and is part of NIH.
&#8220;Our audit found that NIH’s own evaluation of the Year 5 progress report concluded that the research was of a type that should have been reported immediately to NIH,&#8221; it said.  The Year 5 report was filed two years late, but the IG said NIH &#8220;did not effectively monitor or take timely action&#8221; despite knowing about potential risks.
“This oversight failure is particularly concerning because NIH had previously raised concerns with EcoHealth about the nature of the research being performed. Once NIH received and reviewed the late progress report, NIH concluded the research resulted in a virus with enhanced growth,” it said.
EcoHealth Alliance, for its part, said that NIH had never followed up to ask for the late report or information about its subgrantees, and that it seemed to be on good terms with the agency given that it continued to give it funding. After the coronavirus pandemic, NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant, and EcoHealth successfully appealed the termination—though NIH nonetheless “suspended” it.
Following the coronavirus pandemic, NIH asked EcoHealth for additional information out of Wuhan, but the lab refused to give it to EcoHealth.
EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, was part of the World Health Organization-China team that dismissed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-investigation-concludes-covid-likely-originated-from-a-chinese-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lab leak</a> hypothesis as “extremely unlikely”—despite having been involved in bat coronavirus projects at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
A former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-says-covid-leaked-from-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Andrew Huff</a>, wrote a book titled &#8220;The Truth About Wuhan&#8221; that claimed “EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
In 2014, NIAID awarded a $3.7 million grant to EcoHealth for &#8220;Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.&#8221; The government banned gain-of-function research later that year.
EcoHealth paid $600,000 to WIV and $200,000 to the Wuhan University School of Public Health. Grantees are responsible for their subgrantees under federal regulations, the report said.
&#8220;EcoHealth officials met with WIV staff in person on at least 20 occasions between June 2014 and December 2019 and traveled to Wuhan, China, to meet with individuals from WIV at least annually during that time to discuss the research conducted under its subaward. EcoHealth staff told OIG that they engaged in frequent phone calls and email exchanges with WIV staff throughout,&#8221; auditors said.
In 2016, NIAID told EcoHealth that it &#8220;had determined that the research could be gain-of-function and subject to the funding pause on certain gain-of-function research,&#8221; and asked for information from EcoHealth. The group replied that &#8220;it was highly unlikely that this work would have any pathogenic potential,&#8221; but that &#8220;should any of these recombinants show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, or grow more efficiently in human airway epithelial cells, EcoHealth would immediately: (1) stop all experiments with the mutant [and] (2) inform the NIAID.&#8221;
The inspector general did not weigh in on whether NIAID’s determination that EcoHealth’s work did not constitute gain-of-function was accurate, saying it did not have the scientific expertise, but noted that staff should “err on the side of inclusion when determining whether to refer research that may involve [gain-of-function] for further review.”
In 2017, the ban was partially lifted to allow gain-of-function research in limited circumstances approved by a special HHS committee. In 2018, NIH determined that that approval was not necessary for EcoHealth’s work, but it appeared a close enough call that it inserted a special provision for its five-year report that “should experiments proposed in this award result in a virus with enhanced growth by more than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, EcoHealth must notify NIAID immediately.”
That five-year report was due September 2019, a few months before the global pandemic began. “However, not until after NIH requested the progress report in July 2021 did EcoHealth submit it on August 3, 2021, nearly 2 years late,” auditors said.
When NIH finally saw the report, it “believed there was evidence that the research conducted by EcoHealth’s subrecipient WIV during Year 5 resulted in enhanced growth by more than one log, thus triggering the special term and condition to immediately notify NIAID and potentially requiring the research to undergo review under the HHS P3CO Framework.”
In a response to the IG, EcoHealth quibbled about what metric should be used, and also said that similar findings were in its Year 4 report, so the agency should have known. NIH said describing the results of experiments in scheduled reports is not the same as “immediately notifying” it.
Auditors found that EcoHealth did not properly report information about its subgrantees.
&#8220;Until NIH informed EcoHealth in July 2020 that it was not in compliance with these reporting requirements for its subawards, EcoHealth did not report any of its subawards on the FSRS website according to Federal requirements,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;EcoHealth had not complied with the subaward reporting 
requirement for at least 5 years. Not reporting required subaward information limits NIH and the general public’s visibility into, and transparency of, how these grant funds were used.&#8221;
That&#8217;s something NIH should have detected, auditors wrote: &#8220;we believe NIH’s monitoring of EcoHealth’s grants should have revealed EcoHealth’s failure to comply with the subaward disclosure requirement as early as 2016.&#8221;
Ironically, EcoHealth said it has been unable to travel to supervise its subrecipients recently because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The report also said that EcoHealth should &#8220;refund to the Federal Government $89,171 in unallowable costs&#8221; including for paying bonuses and salaries in excess of a $180,000 cap. EcoHealth said it has repaid that money, but contended that NIH still owes it a larger amount in other unreimbursed spending.
Even after the pandemic, and while its five-year report remained unfiled, NIH gave more grants to EcoHealth—including special conditions that were the result of NIH’s awareness of EcoHealth’s lack of disclosure about WIV. In June 2020, it awarded EcoHealth another $3 million for viruses in Asia, and in September 2020, $1.1 million for human outbreaks of bat viruses.
After the five-year report that NIH believed may have shown gain-of-function, it yet again gave the group another award. Shortly before Fauci stepped down from four decades leading NIAID, EcoHealth received another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-pal-at-center-of-covid-lab-leak-suspicions-gets-new-bat-virus-grant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$3.3 million</a> for a grant running through 2027.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) <a href="https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021-03-12%20Letter%20to%20HHS%20OIG%20Stevens%20Amendment%20Request.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the IG to examine the funding in March 2021. On Tuesday after the release of the IG report, she introduced a bill to prohibit government funding to EcoHealth. Ernst&#8217;s office said that since 2008, EcoHealth has collected nearly $80 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars, including $46 million from the Department of Health, $16.5 million from HHS, and $11.2 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“The Biden administration is funding EcoHealth to search for risky viruses in places all across the globe, except where they might actually find them: in their own lab experiments,&#8221; Ernst said in a statement Tuesday. “While NIH certainly shares in the blame, EcoHealth Alliance is ultimately at fault for failing to tell the world what was really going on at China’s Wuhan Institute. They are guilty of either complacency or a cover-up&#8230; We can’t afford any more of EcoHealth’s ‘prevention’ efforts. That’s why we must permanently ban them from receiving taxpayer dollars ever again.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atomic-bomb-lab-studying-ways-to-combat-misinformation-including-covid-lab-leak-theory">Atomic Bomb Lab Studying Ways To ‘Combat’ ‘Misinformation’ Including COVID Lab-Leak Theory</a>

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Federal Watchdog Slams Fauci’s Agency And EcoHealth Over Deal With Wuhan Lab

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk signaled that an incoming installment of the &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; could focus on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Bill Clinton rape <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-clinton-rape-accuser-juanita-broaddrick-banned-from-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuser Juanita Broaddrick</a> responded to a tweet Sunday from Musk wishing people a good first day of the new year and vowing 2023 won&#8217;t be &#8220;boring.&#8221; Broaddrick tweeted, &#8220;Waiting …… for #FauciFiles,&#8221; to which Musk replied, &#8220;Later this week.&#8221;
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It was not immediately clear what the so-called Fauci Files might contain or how they would be released. But there have already been several installments of the &#8220;Twitter Files,&#8221; promoted by Musk himself, including those which have offered an insider&#8217;s view into censorship efforts at the social media giant.
For instance, Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an early critic of Fauci, was secretly blacklisted because he &#8220;argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-twitter-releases-documents-showing-it-took-secret-actions-against-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a thread by reporter Bari Weiss</a>.
Fauci, who served for decades as the nation&#8217;s leading infectious disease expert, became a divisive figure in the fight against COVID. He became a celebrity of sorts to many, seen as a trustworthy health expert during a crisis, but critics have assailed Fauci for heavy-handed public advice during the COVID pandemic. Intense scrutiny is now placed on him over the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nih-acknowledges-us-funded-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab-despite-faucis-denials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funding of bat coronavirus research</a> at a lab in Wuhan, China, where it is theorized the virus originated.
Musk has taken aim at Fauci multiple times since completing a $44 billion purchase of Twitter in October. Last month Musk tweeted, &#8220;My pronouns are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-dr-fauci-in-cryptic-wee-hours-tweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prosecute/Fauci</a>,&#8221; and he also claimed that some employees at Twitter before his takeover used an internal Slack channel named the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-claims-old-twitter-had-a-fauci-fan-club-slack-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fauci Fan Club</a>.&#8221;
Fauci, 82, ended 2022 by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-anthony-fauci-60-minutes-2023-01-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepping down</a> as President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. A <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/fauci-says-he-will-cooperate-with-house-republican-probe-into-covid-origins.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House investigation into the origins of the pandemic</a> is expected to throw Fauci right back into the spotlight once Republicans take over the lower chamber this week.

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Elon Musk Teases Fauci ‘Files’ Drop

Elon Musk Teases Fauci 'Files' Drop

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It seems that<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/fauci-unmasked" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>, the president’s outgoing top medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a little embarrassed that The New York Times saw his gigantic wall filled with portraits of himself in his home office.
The career bureaucrat doesn&#8217;t want <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-announces-new-twitter-science-policy-blasts-dr-anthony-fauci-cannot-be-regarded-as-a-scientist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his critics</a> to see that as more evidence that he is some sort of narcissist.
Fauci, whose last day in public service was on December 30, recently sat down with the Times for an interview. As pointed out by The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Jerry Dunleavy, the opening line of the article in question read, &#8220;The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with portraits of him, drawn and painted by some of his many fans.&#8221;
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The very first sentence of this NYT profile: “The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with portraits of him, drawn and painted by some of his many fans.”<a href="https://t.co/e0IInGMg1T">https://t.co/e0IInGMg1T</a>
&mdash; Jerry Christmas 🎅🏼🎄 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1608639547788886016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The author of the Times article observed that &#8220;Dr. Fauci seemed a little uncomfortable with people knowing about the pictures.&#8221;
&#8220;He said that previously, when they were captured on camera, the &#8216;far right&#8217; attacked him as an &#8216;egomaniac,’” Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote. &#8220;If someone goes to the trouble of sending him a portrait of himself, he said, he would &#8216;feel like I’m disrespecting them&#8217; if he discarded it.&#8221;
Yet Fauci should know that there are plenty of other reasons that Americans would view him as a self-obsessed individual — and it&#8217;s not just the &#8220;far Right.&#8221;
For example, perhaps the most revealing comment of Fauci&#8217;s came when he argued that COVID critics were &#8220;attacking science&#8221; when questioning his decision-making during the pandemic.
In 2021, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-tears-into-critics-on-msnbc-claims-attacks-on-me-are-attacks-on-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC, &#8220;A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science, because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.&#8221;
“Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me,” he said at the time. &#8220;So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you are really attacking not only Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science.&#8221;
Not everybody sees it that way — including one of the smartest and most successful men in the entire world.
In reaction to the Wall of Fauci revelation, Musk tweeted, &#8220;creepy.&#8221; Then, he joked, &#8220;maybe he just loves looking at science.&#8221;
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Maybe he just loves looking at science?
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608799144117940224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk, it should be noted, is not &#8220;right-wing&#8221; either.
Indeed, it would appear Musk is right and that Fauci does love looking at &#8220;science&#8221; — aka himself. Americans previously saw his home office thanks to the documentary &#8220;FAUCI&#8221; released by Disney+.
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I just finished the Fauci documentary on Disney+ so you don&#39;t have to. Here is what was, for me, the defining image: Fauci at work in his home office, beneath a larger-than-lifesize oil painting portrait of himself. <a href="https://t.co/hugD4EgLY8">pic.twitter.com/hugD4EgLY8</a>
&mdash; Matt, Pre-School Diploma (@statomattic) <a href="https://twitter.com/statomattic/status/1447318891278045185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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There were other portraits and bobbleheads of himself in his own office — yet he insists he is just a humble public servant who is happy to talk to anybody who will listen.
Much ink has been spread about Fauci, and his errors are well known — but Fauci insists that he has nothing to hide from a GOP-controlled House of Representatives.
For now, though, he&#8217;ll retire as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/faucis-pension-will-be-bigger-than-bidens-annual-salary-largest-in-federal-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest-paid federal employee</a> ever and walk away with a $417,667 annual pension. Just remember, if you criticize him at all then you&#8217;re &#8220;far-Right&#8221; and against &#8220;science.&#8221; And he insists he isn&#8217;t political.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Fauci Has A Gigantic Wall Filled With Portraits Of Himself In His Home Office

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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> announced Wednesday that the social media company&#8217;s new official policy will not penalize users for legitimately questioning scientific claims and narratives that are promoted in the media.
The statement from Musk comes as he has taken multiple shots at leftists this week for buying into mainstream media narratives.
&#8220;New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,&#8221; Musk said.
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New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science
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In a subsequent tweet, Musk responded to professor Gad Saad, who posted a video mocking Dr. Anthony Fauci and his decision to retire as Republicans are set to take over the House of Representatives next week.
&#8220;Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist,&#8221; Musk said in response to the video about Fauci.
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Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608188169417023488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk also posted a meme mocking the political Left over science issues:
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Prior to Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter, users could often face suspension or permanent bans for questioning some scientific matters, especially those surrounding COVID, vaccines, and transgender issues.
Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-on-big-tech-censorship-google-frequently-makes-links-disappear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called out</a> other social media companies and Google earlier this week for alleged censorship on their platforms.
Musk made the remarks in response to a tweet from left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald, who wrote: “For the crime of reporting that the US Security State agencies are heavily involved in Big Tech’s censorship regime, and for confessing that he found this deeply disturbing, liberals have spent a full week saying that @mtaibbi has mental health problems and needs therapy.”
Included in Greenwald’s tweet was a screenshot of one of journalist Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files threads.
“The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm,” Taibbi said. “These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.”
Musk responded, “Most people don’t appreciate the significance of the point Matt was making: *Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-lieu-deletes-tweet-after-getting-fact-checked-by-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Lieu Deletes Tweet After Getting Fact-Checked By Elon Musk</a>

Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Science Policy, Blasts Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Cannot Be Regarded As A Scientist’

Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Science Policy, Blasts Dr. Anthony Fauci: 'Cannot Be Regarded As A Scientist'

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New Twitter chief <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/snoop-dogg-runs-competing-poll-to-see-if-he-should-take-control-of-twitter-from-elon-musk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> claimed on Tuesday that some employees — who were at the social media platform before he took control — had used an internal Slack channel named the &#8220;Fauci Fan Club.&#8221;
Musk shared the information as part of a conversation with entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, who kicked things off by comparing a response from the AI chatbotGPT to a question about <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ex-cia-chiefs-attempt-to-defend-national-hero-fauci-backfires-in-a-hurry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> to a response to a question about the character Raymond Shaw in &#8220;The Manchurian Candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;Has Anthony Fauci ever lied?&#8221; the question on the left read, and the response was unequivocal: &#8220;It is not accurate or fair to say that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a leading expert on infectious diseases, has ever lied. Dr. Fauci is a highly respected scientist and physician who has spent his career working to improve public health and combat infectious diseases.&#8221;
On the right was a photo of Frank Sinatra, who played the role of Captain Bennett Marco in the 1962 film &#8220;The Manchurian Candidate&#8221; — along with the statement, &#8220;Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, most wonderful human being I&#8217;ve ever known in my life.&#8221;
But in that film, Shaw was not actually a hero — he was a Korean War prisoner who had been effectively hypnotized and turned into an assassin. Marco and others in Shaw&#8217;s unit had also been captured — and had all been conditioned to repeat that same description of Shaw whenever they were asked.
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Musk responded to Andreessen&#8217;s comparison with a series of tweets, first sharing a Newsweek article that claimed Fauci had not only lied, but that he had done so when testifying before Congress. He followed that with a point he felt had been undersold, saying, &#8220;Almost no one seems to realize that the head of bioethics at NIH – the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically – is his wife.&#8221;
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Almost no one seems to realize that the head of bioethics at NIH – the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically – is his wife 🧐 <a href="https://t.co/CpWHNCqc8y">https://t.co/CpWHNCqc8y</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607989683077758977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk then linked another article noting that Fauci had previously argued in favor of gain-of-function research — despite <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-catastrophic-epidemic-for-your-political-gain-fauci-comes-to-covid-hearing-with-opposition-research-on-rand-paul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly denying</a> any involvement in funding such research in China.
&#8220;&#8216;Gain-of-function&#8217; in this context is just another way of saying &#8216;bioweapon,'&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Some good nuggets in article. Important to note that Fauci authored 2012 paper arguing for gain-of-function research! Obama wisely put this on pause, but Fauci restarted it.&#8221;
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Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called “Fauci Fan Club” 🤯
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607993481300951040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called &#8216;Fauci Fan Club,'&#8221; he concluded, sharing an emoji of a head exploding. He did not say how many employees had been active in that channel.

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Elon Musk Claims Old Twitter Had A ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack Channel

Elon Musk Claims Old Twitter Had A 'Fauci Fan Club' Slack Channel

Former CIA Director <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/john-brennan-rand-paul-is-beneath-contempt-paul-punches-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Brennan</a> kicked a virtual hornet&#8217;s nest when he attempted to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci after a late-night Twitter-swipe from the platform&#8217;s new owner <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-starts-and-apparently-finishes-blue-check-fee-negotiations-with-stephen-king/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>.
Following Musk&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-dr-fauci-in-cryptic-wee-hours-tweet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptic announcement</a> revealing that his pronouns are &#8220;Prosecute/Fauci,&#8221; Brennan jumped to the former (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious) NIAID Director&#8217;s defense, calling him &#8220;a national hero.&#8221;
”Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &amp; many contributions to public health,” Brennan tweeted.
He then went on to take a swipe at Musk, adding, “Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling hate &amp; public divisions. You may have money, but you have no class.”
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Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &amp; many contributions to public health
Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate &amp; divisions. 
You may have money, but you have no class. <a href="https://t.co/0zabyXMERz">https://t.co/0zabyXMERz</a>
&mdash; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1601949081189900288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Critics quickly came for Brennan, arguing both that he was wrong about Fauci and that his own lack of candor with the American people might disqualify his opinion.
“Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like @JohnBrennan thinks he’s a hero,” actor Nick Searcy tweeted.
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Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnBrennan</a> thinks he’s a hero. <a href="https://t.co/pqkf4yxUf1">https://t.co/pqkf4yxUf1</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1602016079651692544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Steve Hilton, host of Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution,” weighed in as well, disputing Brennan&#8217;s claim that Fauci would be remembered for anything other than his connections to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sen-paul-demands-answers-from-fauci-on-gain-of-function-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubious research</a> and how that impacted the federal government&#8217;s response to the COVID pandemic.
&#8220;No, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &amp; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people,&#8221; he said.
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No, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &amp; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people. <a href="https://t.co/htS5JblHpG">https://t.co/htS5JblHpG</a>
&mdash; steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx/status/1602016141924175873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Brennan appeared to take issue with the complaints, doubling down on his initial comments several hours later.
“Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &amp; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &amp; politically destructive,” he said. “We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately.”
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Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &amp; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &amp; politically destructive. 
We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately. <a href="https://t.co/tEiDgcZjon">https://t.co/tEiDgcZjon</a>
&mdash; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1602041419476176899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., lashed out at Musk over the same tweet that had provoked Brennan, claiming, &#8220;Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech.&#8221;
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Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. 
Elon is no champion of free speech. <a href="https://t.co/2UlWmvQR6n">pic.twitter.com/2UlWmvQR6n</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1601933557156438017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But when popular Canadian legal blogger Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) pushed back, saying, &#8220;Pretty sure @elonmusk wants to &#8216;criminalize&#8217; Fauci because Fauci lied under oath, engaged in gain of function research in a Chinese lab, jeopardized the entire planet, and arguably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people,&#8221; Musk&#8217;s response was simple: &#8220;Correct.&#8221;
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&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602024488664588288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ex-CIA Chief’s Attempt To Defend ‘National Hero’ Fauci Backfires In A Hurry

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan's Attempt To Defend 'National Hero' Fauci Backfires In A Hurry

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-torches-former-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-alleged-lack-of-action-against-child-porn-on-the-site/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>, whose exposure of Twitter’s internal communications has lifted the curtain on censorship of conservatives, took aim at a new target with an early-morning tweet Sunday: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vaguely-familiar-heres-the-fauci-fib-that-stood-out-most-in-the-docs-dishonest-deposition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted, an hour after another tweet warning that things were about to “get spicy.”
So far, the Twitter revelations, delivered in four tweet threads by journalists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Taibbi</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-twitter-releases-documents-showing-it-took-secret-actions-against-conservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bari Weiss,</a> and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/independent-candidate-for-california-governor-talks-progressive-policies-leaving-the-democratic-party-and-the-need-for-pro-human-environmentalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Shellenberger</a>, have mostly focused on Twitter’s decision to stifle the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story just days before the 2020 presidential election and its move to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform.
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My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
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Musk’s latest tweets could suggest damning information might soon be revealed about Fauci, the government virologist who set COVID policies, including school lockdowns, economic shutdowns, and mask and vaccine mandates, under two administrations.
Fauci’s defenders have elevated him to god-like status over the last three years, with yard signs saying “In Fauci We Trust” and votive candles bearing his image. But a growing chorus of critics blame the octogenarian head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and current chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden for blocking investigation into the possibility that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-admin-shut-down-probe-launched-during-trump-era-to-examine-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-report-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID leaked from a Chinese lab,</a> where his office had funded dangerous bat virus research as well as his heavy-handed advice to close schools and businesses during the pandemic.
Fauci is scheduled to retire sometime this month, although Republicans in the House and Senate have vowed to investigate his potential role in the pandemic, which has so far killed more than six million people around the world.
Prior to Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October, the platform routinely muzzled anyone who questioned the Fauci-led federal line on COVID. Critics who raised the lab-leak theory, decried the effect on children of closing schools, or questioned the intentional shutdown of large swaths of the economy were silenced on the platform.
In Weiss’s Twitter Files revelation last week, it was shown that Twitter content police secretly blacklisted respected Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Battacharya, who was an early critic of Fauci. After seeing proof that he had been silenced, the horrified medical academic told Fox News such decisions had a devastating effect on society.
&#8220;We needed to have a discussion, an open scientific discussion about the right policies for COVID,&#8221; Bhattacharya <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-confirm-stanford-professor-dr-jay-bhattacharya-blacklisted-covid-19-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham</a>. “Imagine how different all the small businesses who stayed open, all the people that wouldn&#8217;t have missed their cancer screenings, all the kids that wouldn&#8217;t be depressed and suicidal, all the learning loss that could have been avoided if we just had an open scientific discussion.&#8221;
“This was not a free and fair kind of discussion,” he added. “It was censorship that I think led to the tremendously bad policies we&#8217;ve had over COVID and the failures that we&#8217;ve seen over the last three years.&#8221;

Elon Musk Takes Aim At Dr. Fauci In Cryptic Wee-Hours Tweet

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-surprise-faucis-final-message-is-a-lecture-on-masks-getting-the-latest-booster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> would wear a mask for the rest of his life just to hide his face if he weren&#8217;t vaccinated and triple-boosted for shame.
The octogenarian immunologist who once <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/anthony-fauci-i-am-the-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed to be the human embodiment of science</a> put on a clinic of mendacity in a November 23 <a href="https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/135885afauci112322_full_redacted.pdf?sfvrsn=35f4a425_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deposition</a> for a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general for Louisiana and Missouri. Over the course of seven hours, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-anthony-fauci-repeatedly-defends-communist-china-from-covid-cover-up-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised the monstrous regime in China</a> for its COVID response, admonished a court reporter for not wearing a useless mask, and invoked some variation of “I don’t recall” nearly 200 times.
But here’s the whopper that scored a John Blutarsky-level 0.0 on the laugh test:
“I’m vaguely familiar with the fact that EcoHealth Alliance has been doing research on trying to understand the bat coronavirus emergence,” he told lawyers alleging the feds colluded with social media to chill debate about COVID policies.
That the man who inspired “In Fauci We Trust” yard signs and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1316152590/saint-dr-fauci-prayer-candle-saint-dr?gpla=1&amp;gao=1&amp;&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=shopping_us_-home_and_living-domestic_low&amp;utm_custom1=_k_ddbf6de1d10313a252f00e6e892fea62_k_&amp;utm_content=bing_412373112_1309518646655325_81844979140035_pla-4585444530274366:pla-4585444530274366_c__1316152590&amp;utm_custom2=412373112&amp;msclkid=ddbf6de1d10313a252f00e6e892fea62" target="_blank" rel="noopener">St. Fauci votive candles</a> could make that statement with a straight face is a testament to his pathological aversion to the truth. EcoHealth Alliance is the federal grant-grubbing “nonprofit” run by Fauci’s longtime pal, Peter Daszak. Fauci’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave EcoHealth Alliance a <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/who-is-peter-daszak-exec-who-sent-taxpayer-money-to-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$600,000 grant</a> that wound up funding illegal gain of function experiments with bat coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan, China.
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Fauci has been <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/rand-paul-calls-on-fauci-to-resign-over-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked about this</a> by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). He has denied that the experiments, which involved <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infecting humanized mice with a genetically altered version of coronavirus</a>, amounted to gain of function research. He has to, because given most people with IQs above room temperature now believe COVID escaped the lab, it starts to look like Fauci picked up the tab for a virus that has killed more than six million people so far.
An honest doctor might have searched his files after being humiliated on Capitol Hill by a fellow doctor, and one who has actually practiced medicine at that. While Fauci has recently begun to claim he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-completely-open-mind-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-says-evidence-points-elsewhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has an “open mind”</a> about COVID’s origins, if we are to believe his deposition claim, he never looked into what EcoHealth Alliance was doing at the lab. His “vague” familiarity would be believable if he were an ordinary Anthony who relied on the Beltway’s local rag or social media for information. The legacy media is strangely incurious as to how the deadly international pandemic started and, until Elon Musk bought it, Twitter might have banned you for suggesting COVID started in a lab where creepy scientists conducted illegal bat coronavirus experiments with your money.
Fauci didn’t just lack curiosity, he was out to kill off the lab-leak theory that potentially implicates him and EcoHealth Alliance from the beginning. Go back to those early days of 2020, when what we used to call “coronavirus” was spreading like wildfire. We knew it came from Wuhan, but Fauci desperately wanted the world to think it came from a local market, and not the mysterious nearby laboratory where dangerous experiments with bat coronaviruses were taking place. Emails unearthed through FOIA show Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/11/26/unredacted-documents-reveal-fauci-tried-to-shift-the-narrative-on-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-n2616390" target="_blank" rel="noopener">desperately trying to deflect attention from the lab-leak theory</a>.
But just as sure as COVID escaped the lab, the truth has escaped from the lying public health-media complex. A former Daszak lieutenant, Dr. Andrew Huff, who was once vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-says-covid-leaked-from-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says in a new book</a> that COVID-19 was genetically engineered and leaked from the facility.
&#8220;EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,&#8221; he writes in his book, &#8220;The Truth About Wuhan.&#8221;
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Huff’s book sounds like the perfect stocking stuffer for Dr. Anthony Fauci, if he has any interest in learning more about his own role in the pandemic. Then again, he’d probably rather have the votive candle.

Dr. Fauci Testifies To Senate Health Committee On Country’s COVID-19 Response

‘Vaguely Familiar?’: Here’s The Fauci Fib That Stood Out Most In The Doc’s Dishonest Deposition

'Vaguely Familiar?': Here's The Fauci Fib That Stood Out Most In The Doc's Dishonest Deposition

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A scientist who helped lead a group collaborating with coronavirus research at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan vouches for the theory that COVID-19 was genetically engineered and leaked from the facility.
Dr. Andrew Huff, the former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance who has written a new book, claims grant funding from the United States government for research in China led to the &#8220;biggest US intelligence failure since 9/11,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20543847/wuhan-lab-warning-covid-lab-leak/">according to The Sun</a>.
&#8220;EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,&#8221; he writes in his book, The Truth About Wuhan.
More than <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">6.5 million people diagnosed with COVID-19 have died</a> since the earliest cases were reported in Wuhan in late December 2019. The origin of the pandemic has become a topic of fierce debate, with two leading theories being there was a natural emergence or a lab leak. China and the lab in Wuhan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html">denied being to blame</a>, but the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-world-organization-government-and-politics-8662c2bc1784d3dea33f61caa6089ac2">World Health Organization recommended</a> further study into the lab leak theory over the summer.
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EcoHealth Alliance has worked on coronavirus research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/science/bats-covid-lab-leak-nih.html">supported by millions of dollars in grants</a> from the National Institutes of Health. Last year, as scrutiny of their work intensified, the group denied claims by the NIH that it <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3154232/ecohealth-alliance-defends-us-funded-bat-coronavirus-research">failed to properly report its findings</a>.
Dr. Francis Collins, who was the director of the NIH, rejected the notion that federal funding led to the pandemic. &#8220;Analysis of published genomic data and other documents from the grantee demonstrate that the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant are genetically far distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not possibly have caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Any claims to the contrary are demonstrably false,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/statement-misinformation-about-sars-cov-2-origins">he said</a>.
Huff worked at EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016 and has since become a whistleblower. He says the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nih-unearth-more-grant-violations-by-wuhan-lab-collaborator-ecohealth-alliance">U.S. taxpayer-funded nonprofit group</a> instructed the Wuhan lab in the &#8220;best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species&#8221; for years and claims &#8220;China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent.&#8221;
Huff says he quit EcoHealth &#8220;due to a large number of ethical concerns with the scientific work and EcoHealth Alliance as a whole.&#8221; He is suing the group in New York, according to The Sun.
Huff indicated that he had seen no evidence to show China deliberately released the virus, The Sun reported. But he says the U.S. government is &#8220;to blame for the transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese&#8221; and accuses Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-anthony-fauci-repeatedly-defends-communist-china-from-covid-cover-up-accusations">Anthony Fauci of being involved in a cover-up</a>.
After President Joe Biden ordered a 90-day U.S. intelligence review into the virus origin last year, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-intel-review-covid-origins/index.html">it was reported</a> that officials in his administration found the lab leak theory as credible as the natural emergence theory. After the inquiry, Biden criticized China for a lack of transparency and <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/27/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-%E2%81%A019/">pledged a further investigation</a>.
Huff claims he was offered a role with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2019, though he suspects that if he had accepted the position, the agency &#8220;would have disclosed restricted information to me, which would have consequently prevented me from discussing any of this information publicly, like I have been and am doing now.&#8221;
The Truth About Wuhan, published by Skyhorse and distributed by Simon &amp; Schuster, is <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Truth-about-Wuhan/Andrew-G-Huff/9781510773882">due to be released on Tuesday</a>.

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Whistleblower Says COVID Leaked From Wuhan Lab

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This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Chinese Protests Continue
Protests across China are continuing as thousands of demonstrators are lashing out in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-releases-tepid-statement-on-protests-in-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zero COVID</a>&#8221; policy. Ten people died in an apartment fire late last week, and citizens claim that the CCP blocked emergency workers from the area due to the country’s COVID policies.
Fauci Blames Trump For China&#8217;s Dishonesty
Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said this week on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that it is possible that COVID came from a lab, but reiterated that he believes there is evidence the virus might have occurred naturally. Fauci also blamed former President Trump’s “accusatory” relationship with the Chinese for the communist nation’s refusal to be transparent about the virus:
“If you look at the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had right from the very beginning and the accusatory nature, the Chinese are gonna flinch back and say, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sorry. We&#8217;re not gonna talk to you about it.&#8221;
Fauci added that the U.S. should &#8220;keep the politics of out of&#8221; trying to determine COVID&#8217;s origins.
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Anthony Fauci says &quot;the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had right from the very beginning&quot; is why the Chinese Communist Party still has not been honest about COVID&#39;s origin. <a href="https://t.co/9rxxI8aFze">pic.twitter.com/9rxxI8aFze</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1596912230284419078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Senator Throws Cold Water On Biden Gun Power Grab
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-senate-dem-admits-biden-probably-doesnt-have-the-votes-to-ram-through-gun-control-in-lame-duck-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the press that President Biden has “probably not” secured the needed 60 votes to pass gun control in the lame-duck session of Congress. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Murphy threw cold water on Biden‘s hopes to pass an assault weapons ban.
“I’m glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban, The House has already passed it. It’s sitting in front of the Senate,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not. But let’s see if we can try to get that number as close to 60 as possible. If we don’t have the votes, then we will talk to Senator Schumer and maybe come back next year with maybe an additional senator and see if we can do better.”
Buffalo Shooter Pleads Guilty
The suspect charged with murdering ten people during a mass shooting in May at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-buffalo-shooter-pleads-guilty-to-domestic-terrorism-and-hate-crime-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> on Monday morning on all charges.
The 19-year-old man – who we will not name in accordance with Daily Wire policy intended to deprive mass shooters of notoriety – pleaded guilty to all charges in the grand jury indictment, including murder, murder as a hate crime, and hate-motivated domestic terrorism.
Hawaii&#8217;s Largest Volcano Explodes
Hawaii’s largest active volcano began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawaiis-largest-active-volcano-erupts-ash-fall-warning-issued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erupting</a> Sunday night, with lava flow warnings issued to the surrounding area. The eruption of Mauna Loa, considered the world’s largest active volcano, was detected at approximately 11:30 p.m. local time inside the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The volcano has erupted 33 times since officials began documenting its activity in 1843. Its lava flows have reached the ocean eight times since 1868.
&#8220;We The People&#8221; Christmas At White House
First Lady Jill Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/politics/jill-biden-white-house-holiday-decorations/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the White House’s holiday decor theme this year is “We the People.” Over 150 volunteers from around the nation helped decorate the White House over a week.
Avian Flu Hits Nebraska
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture <a href="https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2022/11/28/bird-flu-prompts-slaughter-18m-chickens-nebraska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Saturday that another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after a case of bird flu was found on an egg-laying farm in the state. This comes after more than 50 million birds were slaughtered nationwide earlier this year due to outbreaks.
Heritage Foundation Spends Big To Protect Religious Freedom
The Heritage Foundation spent more than $1 million on national TV ads over Thanksgiving weekend, encouraging U.S. senators to vote against the new bill codifying same-sex marriage until new religious liberty protections are added to the bill.
The U.S. Senate has a cloture vote on the Respect for Marriage Act Monday but has faced backlash from those who say it will punish religious organizations and non-profits.
Heritage president Kevin Roberts <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heritage-launches-campaign-run-ads-against-gay-marriage-bill-during-nfl-college-football-games" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News, “This legislation does not add one additional benefit to same-sex couples in the United States; it’s an attack that sets the stage to take rights away from people of faith.”
&#8220;Gaslighting&#8221; is 2022&#8217;s Word Of The Year
And, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year-is-gaslighting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially declared</a> the 2022 word of the year. It’s “gaslighting.”
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Monday Afternoon Update: Chinese Protests, Fauci Blames Trump, Heritage Foundation Spends Big On Religious Freedom

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, repeatedly defended communist China during two interviews Sunday morning.
Fauci gave the defenses of China when he was asked about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, which many experts believe occurred during an accident at a lab in Wuhan.
Fauci claimed during an interview with CBS News&#8217; Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; that China often &#8220;acts secretive&#8221; even &#8220;when there&#8217;s nothing at all to hide.&#8221; Fauci pointed to the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in the early 2000s as an example.
However, a 2003 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/the-sars-epidemic-epidemic-china-admits-underreporting-its-sars-cases.html">report</a> from The New York Times highlighted that China later admitted to underreporting cases of the disease and that the actual number of cases was &#8220;many times higher than previously reported.&#8221;
Brennan then mentioned how a recent op-ed from The Washington Post editorial board said that &#8220;the cover-up is immense and still in place&#8221; and that China needed to allow a new investigation into the pandemic&#8217;s origins.
&#8220;Do you agree with that word cover-up?&#8221; Brennan asked. &#8220;And intentional distortion?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what that means,&#8221; Fauci responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what they&#8217;re talking about. I mean, if cover-up is not allowing people to come in and look at all the data, that&#8217;s not a cover, that&#8217;s not being transparent.&#8221;
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Anthony Fauci is asked if he agrees with using the words &quot;cover-up&quot; and &quot;intentional distortion&quot; to describe China&#39;s role in COVID.
FAUCI: &quot;I don&#39;t know what that means, no.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/NbJnIG1AuC">pic.twitter.com/NbJnIG1AuC</a>
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Fauci then defended China for not turning over its primary data from the pandemic by blaming the Trump administration.
&#8220;They can say, oh, you know, it&#8217;s in frozen food, or it&#8217;s in this or it&#8217;s in that. But there&#8217;s no primary data,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;The [World Health Organization] went in and saw some of the data, which some of which was actually quite helpful. But we- you know what we need, Margaret, we need a transparency and a collaboration to open things up so that we can discuss it in a non-accusatory way.&#8221;
&#8220;What happens is that if you look at the anti-China approach, that clearly the Trump administration had right from the very beginning, and the accusatory nature, the Chinese are going to flinch back and say, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;m sorry, we&#8217;re not going to talk to you about it,&#8217; which is not correct,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;They should be.&#8221;
When Brennan mentioned that China is still not cooperating with U.S. officials, Fauci defended the Biden administration by saying that the &#8220;horse is out of the barn.&#8221;
During an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Fauci again defended China over accusations that the communist nation is covering up the pandemic&#8217;s origins.
&#8220;Now there would be one theory as to why is the Chinese government acting so peculiar and weird, and they still have not come clean on what they can tell us about the start of this pandemic, have they?&#8221; Todd asked.
&#8220;Yeah. Yeah. That is true,&#8221; Fauci answered. &#8220;And that is, in some respects, and I don&#8217;t mean this in a broad pejorative way, but in anything that we&#8217;ve had to do over decades, whether it&#8217;s bird flu, H5N1, H7N9, or the original SARS in 2002, even when there&#8217;s nothing to hide they act in a suspicious, non-transparent way just probably because they don&#8217;t want to make it look like there&#8217;s a blame. When the reality is, if something evolves in your country, it’s not to blame but let&#8217;s find out what went on so we can be transparent about it and prevent it for the next time happening.&#8221;
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&quot;Why is the Chinese government acting so peculiar and weird?&quot;
ANTHONY FAUCI: &quot;I don&#39;t mean this in a broad, pejorative way, but&#8230;even when there&#39;s nothing to hide, they act in a suspicious, non-transparent way.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1zRRNUCWPf">pic.twitter.com/1zRRNUCWPf</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1596876296914468865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Airline Travel Returns To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Still Below Record
If you’ve been traveling for Thanksgiving this week, you know that airline travel is back to pre-pandemic levels — but hasn’t quite hit 2019’s record of 2.9 million travelers on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
The TSA is expecting to screen 2.5 million passengers a day across U.S. airports on the busiest days this week. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg celebrated the numbers.
&#8220;We are delighted that demand is returning like nobody thought possible with more and more passengers having the desire and the income to return to the skies,&#8221; Buttigieg <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE58XuzIBfc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Mask Mandates Imminent? 
The Department of Health and Human Services is again <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-report-suggests-going-back-to-masks-social-distancing-because-of-long-covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that the American public should partake in masking and social distancing to reduce the spread of COVID and guard against “Long COVID.”
The new report, sponsored by HHS and conducted by research agency Coforma, suggested that these policies should be either strongly encouraged or even mandated while calling for expanded government programs that offer financial support and benefits for COVID victims.
Home Purchases Decreasing
Rising interest rates and high home prices <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/investor-home-purchases-6831856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have led</a> to a 30% drop in home purchases by investors in the third quarter.
The reduction means fewer homes being built or restored for future buyers. Home purchases by investors fell from 94,000 in the same quarter last year to 66,000 this year. Also driving the trend is the slowing of rent growth from 13% to just 10%.
EU Sends More Money To Ukraine
As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault rages on, the European Union <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-receives-25-billion-euros-assistance-eu-2022-11-22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent Ukraine another $2.5 billion in assistance</a> on Tuesday. The EU is expected to approve another $18 billion in 2023. So far, the EU has sent $6.7 billion total to Ukraine for a variety of necessities and supplies.
Bye-Bye, Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s final White House press conference went sideways this week after a reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-surprise-faucis-final-message-is-a-lecture-on-masks-getting-the-latest-booster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a question about what Fauci has done to investigate the origins of COVID. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down the question.
&#8220;We have a process here,&#8221; Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-loses-control-of-briefing-room-and-herself-as-journalists-balk-at-her-skipping-conservative-reporter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scolded</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m not calling out on people who yell. And you&#8217;re being … disrespectful to your colleagues, and you&#8217;re being disrespectful to our guest. I will not call on you if you yell, and also you&#8217;re taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes.”
“Avatar” Sequel Coming Soon
The much-anticipated sequel to the 2009 box office hit “Avatar” is due to <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/avatar-2-may-be-the-most-expensive-movie-of-all-time-1993407/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> December 16 and is projected to be one of, if not the most, expensive film ever produced. Director James Cameron has declined to state just how expensive the film’s budget was, but reports suggest that the production budget alone was $250 million.
Big College Football Weekend
And, in some sports news, the final weekend of the college football regular season promises some big rivalry matchups, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-vs-ohio-state-coach-schembechlers-final-speech-still-rings-true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes versus the third-ranked Michigan Wolverines</a>, and the seventh-ranked USC Trojans versus the 18th-ranked Fighting Irish. And, of course, my underrated Florida State Seminoles are facing off against the Florida Gators Friday evening.
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Friday Afternoon Update: Feds Suggest Mask Mandates, Home Purchases Drop, Fauci Dodges The Press

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