Posted on 06/04/2021 1:27:52 AM PDT by RandFan
Republican Sen. Rand Paul continued to go after Dr. Anthony Fauci in a radio interview Wednesday, claiming he's invested in a Wuhan lab leak theory being discredited because the U.S. financed some of the lab's research.
Paul claimed the nation's top infectious disease expert had an 'incestuous' relationship' with Dr. Peter Daszak, a British zoologist whose EcoHealth Alliance non-profit steered U.S. funding toward the Wuhan lab, and the scientists working there.
'It's all so incestuous,' Paul told Tom Roten with WVHU, a local radio station in Kentucky. 'It's a small group of people. Fauci is at the head of this and really if we want to investigate this lab and we want to know how to prevent this from happening again, Fauci cannot be a part of this investigation.'
Paul, as well as former President Donald Trump, have leaned into the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic started as a Wuhan-based lab leak - and not a naturally occurring animal-to-human transmission that either started or grew from a Wuhan wet market.
A number of Republicans have expressed outrage that the National Institutes of Health gave $3.4 million to EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2019 and $600,000 of that went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
With a trove of Fauci's emails now public, one getting attention was one from Daszak thanking Fauci for dismissing the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the institute.
'I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,' Daszak wrote.
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Why is a single word in any of Fauci’s emails redacted? Where is the threat to national security? Are any of his emails classified? Just asking for a friend.
Why is a single word in any of Fauci’s emails redacted?
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