Perhaps so. But fingers would have also been pointing back at Trump. The Trump administration lifted the moratorium on GoF research in 2017.
I’m confident Trump had no idea and could plead stupidity. The change happened just weeks into his presidency and it was likely requested by Obama holdovers taking advantage of the transition. Who ever supported it needs to be named and shamed.
The Rand Paul hearings showed GoF had no real value other than it was an easy way for scientist to publish papers, get funding and become nerd famous among their peers... at the risk of the world going dark for a millenia.
Fauci’s hands are obviosly dirty (because he maintains monkeying with virus’s in a lab ISN’T GoF).