Fauci is a bureaucrat. Nothing more, nothing less. He isn't Jesus Christ. Any other bureaucrat who is in charge of millions/billions in grant $, we would encourage aggressive questioning over whether they made mistakes and/or are covering their own asses or their friends'. 1/
When it's Fauci, though, aggressive questioning of his funding decisions is treated like an attack on science and truth itself. Just absolutely ridiculous. I realize that for a lot of people Fauci was an important voice last year but let's not lose perspective. 2/
No other bureaucrat possibly in the history of this country would have the media actually taking his side on the question of whether he is lying about funding gain of function research at this point, especially given that email. It's amazing to watch. 3/
You take this out of the context of Fauci being the supposed anti-Trump throughout last year, and CNN's headlines today would be, "Former Trump official continues to falsely claim his agency didn't fund GOF research, in spite of email plainly saying it did"
And then Stephen Collison would write an "analysis" piece about why Trump should go to jail because of it
It's really clear, from their own statements, that the scientists involved in GOF research, many of whom are Fauci's friends, chafed against the Obama-era moratorium on it. It's really unbelievable to people that under Fauci the NIH willfully skirted the moratorium?
Set aside for a second the question of whether that led to the current pandemic, which is obviously a significant additional leap. I personally have a hard time NOT believing that NIH willfully skirted the rules and is now covering their asses. That email is really damning.
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