Posted on 05/24/2021 7:46:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senator Tom Cotton accused Anthony Fauci of ‘playing word games’ regarding his involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and attempting to cover his tracks where the origins of COVID are concerned.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Cotton said that Fauci could be involved in a “genuine scandal”.
“It is imperative that the NIH come clean and tell us exactly what happened,” Cotton said, adding “Well, I think that a lot of these so-called experts and scientific bureaucrats are trying to cover their tracks.”
Speaking of the ‘gain of function’ research at the Wuhan lab, which was in part funded by the NIH, Cotton said “This could be public health bureaucrats violating explicit direction from the Obama White House to continue research that is highly, highly dangerous and particularly susceptible to escape from a laboratory. Especially a laboratory in China.”
On the notion of the virus having escaped from the lab, Cotton noted that “Dr. Fauci has been to Congress, and he said this absolutely did not happen. But Dr. Fauci is playing word games.”
“The money that the NIH gave went to an American organization, which turned around and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to these Wuhan labs to investigate coronaviruses and, yes, to find ways to make them more contagious and more dangerous,” Cotton explained.
Cotton has been outlining the evidence pointing to a lab leak for more than a year, and has been calling for a deeper investigation since the pandemic took hold.
Cotton has repeatedly been called a conspiracy theorist and worse, while the likes of Fauci have been venerated, even though he has now admitted there is evidence for the lab leak and called for the same thing.
Q: "Are you still confident the [COVID-19] virus developed naturally?”
Dr. Fauci: “No, I'm not convinced.”pic.twitter.com/WKciGUrJ9h
Ooooh......sounding tough, there, Cotton.
I’m still tying to find out if FRAUDci over answered Sen Ron Johnson’s gain of function/2017 release of funding questions, involving FRAUDci’s Wuhan lab associates.
Cotton was one of the first to link C19 to the Wuhan lab, and then he disappeared. Now he’s back, a year later, with still no game plan that I know of. Please, stop talking and commit to action. We need leadership.
And nothing will be done.
Shouldn’t denigrate Sen. Cotton for his remarks putting heat on Dr. Fallacy.
That’s exactly what you want. Silence is not what is desired.
This is like finding MWD in Iraq...the only way to find them was if someone took our "finders" to where they were.
Waiting for Cotton or some other Republican to combine in a sentence the words, “Fauci” and “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
Washington DC is a giant litter box that needs to be emptied regularity for the same reasons as the domestic one.
It takes a great deal of testicular fortitude to say, “playing word games.” I am soooo impressed. How about really fighting for a change? And shorten your euphemisms to something that has a bit more truth and impact. The word “lying” is a perfectly acceptable word that does not need interpreting. It is succinctly articulates it’s exact meaning. Those that use it have the side benefit of not being confused with being a pussies.
Fauxi feeling the heat.
Hey Fauci, WHAT did you KNOW and WHEN did you KNOW it?
Put him under oath.
Lies by omission are still lies
Maybe if the gop hadn’t been asleep for the past several decades, allowing the democrats to take over the entire government, they might’ve had a chance getting a serious investigation.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Fauci will be the next Avenatti.
Let’s let Durham investigate, then we can kick this can down the road forever.
If only you were more concerned about voter fraud Senator, instead of poo-pooing it, and played a part in certifying a potato.
The problem is, there's a revolving door on that litter box. You get rid of one or two turds, and one or two more drop in.
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