As Twitchy reported earlier Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci did not like Sen. Rand Paul asking questions about his support for NIH funding of a Wuhan lab working on coronavirus research. Fauci claimed, “We have never funded gain of function research,” while also confessing he didn’t have any accounting of what China might have done with the money.
Fauci lying to Congress would seem to be a big news story, but the media’s narrative is all about the sparring between Paul and Fauci.
CNN’s “New Day” anchor Brianna Keilar had a highlight reel of Paul and his staff “trolling Fauci” and blowing “disinformation” all over the audience.
He's at it again. Rand Paul trolls Dr. Fauci ahead of his congressional hearing. Not surprising, since Paul approaches these like WWE matches. But instead of titillating a witting audience, he blows disinformation all over them. #RollTheTape pic.twitter.com/2c30czza6B
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) May 11, 2021
Calling this "trolling" is… trolling. https://t.co/USGLNhLXEb
— Stop scolding me, I'm vaccinated (@jtLOL) May 11, 2021
Paul doesn’t treat them like WWE matches … he treats them like congressional hearings.
The Federalist’s Sean Davis was more than happy to look into the specifics that the mainstream media considers disinformation. Will CNN follow up?
Sen. Rand Paul has Anthony Fauci dead to rights on the charge of sending taxpayer money to the Wuhan virus lab.
From 2014 to July 13, 2020 (!), NIAID sent $3.75 million to EcoHealth Alliance to study "bat coronavirus emergence." EHA then sent $600k of that to the Wuhan lab. pic.twitter.com/8Joun3vi4r
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 11, 2021
And here's the link to the official https://t.co/NL1eYs3FLL page for Fauci's Wuhan bat cash spending spree. https://t.co/BvEDyYfBTc
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 11, 2021
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Let's take a look at what was done with Fauci's grants to EcoHealthAlliance/Wuhan: "[W]e constructed an infectious clone" of a SARS-like bat coronavirus.
That is the literal definition of "gain-of-function" genetic research. https://t.co/wChAIXVOFN pic.twitter.com/FdUyP7mtHY
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 11, 2021
We know that research was funded by Fauci and NIAID because it explicitly says it was funded by the same NIAID grant listed here at USASpending. https://t.co/BvEDyYfBTc https://t.co/wChAIXVOFN pic.twitter.com/fDkofGHdD8
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 11, 2021
The lead researcher who received the Fauci grants from NIAID via EcoHealth Alliance even admitted in his own hand that he would be conducting gain-of-function research by engineering infectious strands of cloned SARS-like bat coronaviruses. https://t.co/YlTOzjTf8w pic.twitter.com/ZLTkNbloKl
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 11, 2021
He quite literally 'has the receipts'
— Wooglin (@therealwooglin) May 11, 2021
Fauci lord under oath.
— 48™️ (@fadde) May 11, 2021
And of course they’ll be zero consequences like always
— P (@PG_1_3) May 11, 2021
So what? It's blatantly obvious that he & others like him can do anything they want & they WILL get away with it. So again I ask, so what?
— Mark Armstrong (@MarkArm30682214) May 11, 2021
Nothing is gonna happen. We uncover stuff like this all the time. Just gonna get swept under the rug.
— Paul Glover (@PaulGlover91) May 11, 2021
Fauci flat out denied it because that's his best course of action. He relies on mainstream to protect him and call everybody who calls him out a conspiracy theorist. He needs to be pressed on this further until he admits he was indeed funding it.
— Steve DeAngelo (@FantasySavvy) May 11, 2021
It would be embarrassing to our Fauci as a liar after he’s already appeared on the cover of “In Style” and everything. He has celebrity status now and is immune from everything except the occasional “trolling” from Paul.
Related:
IT’S ON! Dr. Fauci did NOT like Sen. Rand Paul prying and asking questions about his support for NIH funding of Wuhan lab (watch) https://t.co/AfiN2iNHlG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 11, 2021
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