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Rudy got a quick response from Salon:

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/26/rudy-giulianis-bizarre-covid-19-conspiracy-theory-obama-granted-nih-grant-to-wuhan-lab—in-2017_partner/

Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre COVID-19 conspiracy theory: Obama granted NIH grant to Wuhan lab — in 2017
Giuliani’s latest COVID-19 conspiracy theory is that Obama paid a Wuhan virus lab in 2017

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only lefty sites have anything about Rudy just yet
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is this an oops for Rudy?

https://www.inquisitr.com/6019851/rudy-giuliani-calls-out-president-in-2017/

Rudy Giuliani took to Twitter to attack the U.S. president for giving $3.7 million to the Wuhan Laboratory in China in 2017 — not realizing that it was close ally Donald Trump in office at the time.

The former New York City mayor turned top surrogate for President Trump tweeted a message about the funding, which came through the National Institutes of Health. The lab has been the center of controversy and conspiracy theories after the coronavirus outbreak traced back to the Chinese city.

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here’s a good one

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‘Paid for the damn virus that’s killing us’: Giuliani rips Fauci over grants to Wuhan laboratory

Rudy Giuliani questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement in grants from the United States to a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that has been tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a report, the U.S. Intelligence Community has growing confidence that the current coronavirus strain may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology rather than from a wildlife market, as the Chinese Communist Party first claimed. During a Sunday interview on The Cats Roundtable, Giuliani questioned why the U.S. gave money to the lab.

“Back in 2014, the Obama administration prohibited the U.S. from giving money to any laboratory, including in the U.S., that was fooling around with these viruses. Prohibited! Despite that, Dr. Fauci gave $3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory — even after the State Department issued reports about how unsafe that laboratory was, and how suspicious they were in the way they were developing a virus that could be transmitted to humans,” he claimed.

He added, “We never pulled that money. Something here is going on, John. I don’t want to make any accusations. But there was more knowledge about what was going on in China with our scientific people than they disclosed to us when this first came out. Just think of it: If this laboratory turns out to be the place where the virus came from, then we paid for it. We paid for the damn virus that’s killing us.”

moar..

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Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre COVID-19 conspiracy theory: Obama granted NIH grant to Wuhan lab — in 2017 Giuliani’s latest COVID-19 conspiracy theory is that Obama paid a Wuhan virus lab in 2017

Ahahahahahaha.

This is how Snopes debunks Rudy's 'bizarre conspiracy theory'.

"However, not all of that $3.7 million went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and not all of the funding took place under the Obama administration," reported Snopes. "Approximately $700,000 of the $3.7 million total was approved under Donald Trump."

No mention of this tidbit;

Such grants were prohibited in 2014.

The derps and snopes are a cruel joke.

We can conclude that, A) Rudy is not a bizarre conspiracy theorist, B) Obama did grant Wuhan millions of dollars, despite it being prohibited.

Good 'ol Snopes confirmed that much. We can assume that Obama holdovers continued the gravy train after Trump was in office. After all, they had Presidential approval already.

They must totally think we're stupid. Slap 'conspiracy theory' on anything and it goes away. Add 'bizarre' and BLAM.