Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant linked to Wuhan lab, new book says

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infections disease expert, resisted a directive from President Trump to cancel a research grant for a non-profit that was linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to a new book detailing the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump issued a directive to Fauci and the National Institutes of Health in April 2020 to cut funding for a study examining how coronaviruses jump from infected bats to humans after it was reportedly linked to the lab in Wuhan, suspected of having leaked the virus.

The exchange between Fauci and the White House is detailed in an upcoming book by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta called "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," according to Fox News.

The study's sponsor, EcoHealth Alliance, was then told to end the remaining $369,819 balance of its 2020 grant.....

If Fauci doesn’t follow an Obama-Biden directive they’ll be fishing his corpse out of the river while the new media babbles about witnesses seeing him jump from a bridge. But blow off a Trump directive?

question. why didn’t the UK authorities - or others in the know - object when Peter Daszak was appointed to the phony WHO group sent to China to investigate the origins of covid-19?

Australia involved too, and not just CSIRO, but some of our top universities:

2 VIDEOS: 26 June: Sky News Australia: CSIRO ‘worked with coronaviruses and bats’ with Chinese scientists
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says “it became clear the CSIRO has worked with coronaviruses and with bats” in gain-of-function research conducted with counterparts from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“Now there are credible allegations that the coronavirus that we’re still living with came from China, and it was potentially made in China and it would appear that at least if that is the case, our government agencies like the CSIRO have at least been involved in these processes,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny...
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/csiro-worked-with-coronaviruses-and-bats-with-chinese-scientists/ar-AALrfkR?ocid=BingNewsSearch

A bigger question is why Australians are putting up with such strict lockdowns while at the same time SKY news is asking such good questions and doing such good research into the ‘rona and its connections to other things.

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