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Fauci Was Told Early on That Wuhan Coronavirus Looked 'Engineered'
Townhall ^ | 06/02/2021

Posted on 06/02/2021 8:07:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

New emails obtained by Buzzfeed through a Freedom Information Act show National Institute of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by NIH scientist Kristian Andersen on January 31, 2020 that Wuhan coronavirus looked "potentially engineered." In other words, it was manipulated in a lab through gain of function research. 

"On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered," Andersen said. 

And yet, that's not what he said publicly as he rejected the possibility of a lab leak in interviews, during testimony to Congress and during official White House Task Force briefings. On April 18, 2020, three months after being told the virus looked engineered, Fauci told reporters at the White House, unequivocally, it didn't come from a lab. Most of the media then reported his remarks as "debunking" a conspiracy theory. 

"Mr. President, I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci: Could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in China?" Fauci was asked by a reporter. 

"There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human," Fauci said. 

In newly FOIA'd emails, there are at least two instances of Fauci sending colleagues a paper about "gain of function" research potentially being relevant to COVID. Back when mentioning this prospect got you banned from social media and labeled a conspiracy theorist pic.twitter.com/2anDbJK9MI— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 2, 2021

So far, the Fauci FOIA emails show:

-He had some urgent, time sensitive discussions about gain of function.
-Told colleagues retail masks don't work due to size of virus.
-Ignored scientist who told him China was lying about virus and data.
-Was well aware of possible lab leak.— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) June 2, 2021

Fauci FOIA emails show a man prioritizing protection of his institutions, & not a man interested in getting to the bottom of the mysteries surrounding COVID-19.

Bureaucrat gonna bureaucrat, even if that meant total chaos & an 18 month disinformation campaign from the "experts."— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) June 2, 2021

Fauci also repeatedly denied funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but discussed the dangerous experiments in emails from February 2020. He was asked about the experiments during a recent exchange with Republican Senator Rand Paul.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; fauci; fauciemails; flubras; flubros; justacold; justtheflu; origins; scamdemic

1 posted on 06/02/2021 8:07:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/02/2021 8:09:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He probably thinks of himself as a “citizen of the world.”


3 posted on 06/02/2021 8:09:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Technically, we’re just rehashing what was being discussed from day one. It briefly was blamed on a meat market and then went straight to “engineered from Wuhan lab”.

And then we were banned on forums for even suggesting that might be true.

And here we are.

FWIW, same thing resulted from mentioning ivermectin.


4 posted on 06/02/2021 8:10:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fauci knows full well it was engineered, he PAID for it.


5 posted on 06/02/2021 8:10:43 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

6 posted on 06/02/2021 8:11:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He already knew since he was one of the investors in the lab.


7 posted on 06/02/2021 8:12:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: BenLurkin

Remember how he gushed about how he trusted his “esteemed colleagues” in China?

I do.

He said that. Multiple times. I did not forget.

P.S. - he KNEW this was engineered from the outset because with arrogance of a supreme bureaucrat he was funding and pushing the Chinese through “sub-contractors” to do gain of function research.

Only in government could you fail your first crises in spectacular fashion (HIV/AIDS) and remain in office to fail even more on a bigger stage.


8 posted on 06/02/2021 8:12:36 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: SeekAndFind
he was also told that oral anti malaria/anti viral drugs work well.....even on vented patients....

it makes you want to pull your hair out....

9 posted on 06/02/2021 8:13:48 AM PDT by cherry (we are the dominionated)
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auci FOIA emails show a man prioritizing protection of his institutions....

That is what a communist government does....preserves itself and to hell with the people.

10 posted on 06/02/2021 8:23:31 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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I am sure he already knew that since he paid with american tax dollars to have it engineered


11 posted on 06/02/2021 8:23:51 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s tons more to come. I was just listening to Bannon’s War room. FauxChi perjured himself multiple times (constantly) in front of Congress. Throw his ass in prison. There’s a lot more to this. Seems that scientific journals were actively covering up for the CCP. Worse yet, medical and viral research in America, including universities, bio-tech companies and the military is completely infiltrated by the CCP. FauxChi is their butt boy. There are many people who need to rot in jail for the rest of their lives. But first, all Chinese nationals in the United States need to be deported now. I don’t give a damn if it is some 18 year studying English literature. They need to go. Every last one.


12 posted on 06/02/2021 8:25:49 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SeekAndFind

He didn’t have to be told, he knew cause he funded it!


13 posted on 06/02/2021 8:45:31 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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“you will have tasks to do today”......what? SHREDDING???Hugh Auchincloss MUST be put under oath!~


14 posted on 06/02/2021 9:21:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cherry

nooooo...it makes me want to pull Dr. FRAUD’S hair out!


15 posted on 06/02/2021 9:22:57 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I would bet that dr. Fraud has OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS!!


16 posted on 06/02/2021 9:25:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS
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THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

The CCP Effort praised by a CCP scientist working on doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


17 posted on 06/02/2021 9:26:49 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: ConservativeInPA
Throw his ass in prison.
18 posted on 06/02/2021 10:07:32 AM PDT by Pollard
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