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grease lightnin
It is 100% clear that he lied. The documents prove NIH funded research in Wuhan that modified coronaviruses to make them unnaturally more transmissible to humans and more infectious. This is “gain of function” research. And it is likely why COVID-19 has spread the way it has, and why it has made some so sick. It is not natural, and was likely created in a lab, which Fauci also said didn’t happen in April of 2020:
”“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” Fauci said.”
The emails proved that he was told that it did look engineered and that funding through EcoHealthAlliance didn’t go through the proper channels and could have funded research that created COVID-19, and he obviously tried to cover their tracks. After the emails came out, Rand Paul, in another Senate hearing claimed Fauci was lying and said he was filing a criminal referral to the DOJ that Fauci lied to Congress. Fauci famously replied that Rand Paul was the one who was lying.
You are right that the article doesn’t explicitly say “Anthony Fauci lied to Congress”. But Richard Ebright, who is the expert cited in the article, the one who reviewed the 900 pages they obtained, said a lot on Twitter, and I suggest if you really want to know a about this, look at his tweets on this article…but this was his final tweet:
“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.“
Bottom line is this: Fauci told Senators in a hearing that the NIH:
"has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
And it was a big ‘ol fat lie. What else has he lied about that we still do know know about?