Remember this past summer when Anthony Fauci shouted at Sen. Rand Paul during a Senate hearing about the origin of Covid? Dr. High-and-Mighty told Sen. Paul that the National Institutes of Health did not support gain-of-function research at the Wuhan  Lab. What’s more, said Fauci, Sen. Paul — a medical doctor — did not know what he was talking about.

Here’s a reminder of that exchange. At the beginning, Paul cites a molecular biologist from Rutgers, Professor Richard Ebright, on gain-of-function research. Remember that name as you watch the video.

Well, the worm has turned. The Intercept, through a Freedom of Information Act request, pored through 900 pages of documents relating to the actions of EcoHealth Alliance. They uncovered two unpublished grant proposals, funded through the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that we didn’t know about. EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak received money for one of those grants for a research project called, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”

And who headed the NIAID? None other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, along with his sidekick NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins.

But no gain-of-function research here, nope, not at all. In fact, Daszak even vehemently denied that the coronavirus could have emerged from the Wuhan lab.

However, Professor Richard Ebright tweeted on Monday evening:

"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on..coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."https://t.co/n3OkFAq3kM

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021

Ebright added, in a thread:

“The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.”

And:

“The materials confirm the grants supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.”

Finally, Ebright wrapped up his thread with this:

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.”

But wait, there’s more! The EcoHealth Alliance grant,”Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Research,” not only proposed screening bat samples, but also research which required live animals. On top of that, the documents show that research with humanized mice was going on at yet another lab — a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment. Not the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Not only that, but the documents show that EcoHealth Alliance knew the dangers of this research. According to molecular biologist Alina Chan:

“In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten — and they kept records of everyone who got bitten.”

Looks like Rand Paul knew exactly what he was talking about. It also looks like Fauci owes him an apology. Like that would ever happen — Fauci is an arrogant tyrant in a small body.

But Breitbart’s John Hayward has another reminder as well: that lying under oath is a punishable offense.

Quick reminder that lying under oath is only a punishable offense for the Little People, not for duly credentialed members of the elite, and certainly not for Coronavirus Sky Marshal Fauci. https://t.co/y6Mo4nA9jt

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 7, 2021

Unfortunately, however, Hayward is also correct that Anthony Fauci will never face prosecution for lying, because such punishments are only for the Little People like you and me. Meanwhile, St. Fauci of the Lockdowns will never be held responsible for the misery he has helped to promulgate throughout the country over the past 18 months.

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