Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID (Press Release)

Office Director National Intelligence (ODNI) ^ | June 18, 2026 | Tulsi Gabbard / ODNI

[ProtectOurFreedom]

New Evidence Fauci Manipulated Intelligence and Lied to Congress

WASHINGTON D.C. — Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.

Today, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the Intelligence Community (IC) to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus’ lab-leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19, and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024, when under oath he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research.

You can view the communications and documents HERE.

“The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world. After years of lies, censorship, and cover ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability,” DNI Gabbard said. “The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook: politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected President by restricting his access to vital facts needed to keep the country safe. It’s time the American people learn the real story.”

The materials released today are a result of DNI Gabbard’s yearlong declassification review in support of President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate. During this process, ODNI officials gathered testimony from multiple IC whistleblowers who reported retaliation for challenging the IC’s manipulation of intelligence on the virus’ origins. This unveiled a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying evidence that undermined IC integrity and disserved the American people.

Fauci’s close IC relationships enabled him to assume three key roles during the pandemic that shielded him from scrutiny as he wielded outsized influence.

• Fauci funded risky coronavirus research linked to big pharma and the pursuit of “universal vaccines” worth trillions of dollars.
• Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who, with his hand-picked experts, pushed the IC to endorse a natural, animal origin to hide his dangerous research.
• Fauci became the nation’s pandemic “pundit” and publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship.

Fauci’s Relationship With The Intelligence Community Drove Intelligence & Public Narratives

Throughout the pandemic, Fauci and politicized leaders within the IC created a self-serving circular reporting loop. He provided hand-picked NIAID-funded scientists to advise the IC. This input shaped official intelligence assessments, which were then publicly cited as scientific consensus to refute the lab-leak theory.

According to hundreds of reviewed emails, the IC almost always incorporated his recommendations. Fauci promoted a fraudulent paper, whose publication he helped prompt, as legitimate information for Intelligence Community consideration. Senior analysts praised Fauci not as a “policymaker,” but as an unbiased guide to “the real coronavirus experts”—while ignoring experts who might dissent from Fauci’s narratives.

Fauci Lied to Congress

The correspondence released today directly contradicts Fauci’s 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In that hearing, while under oath, Fauci was repeatedly asked whether he spoke to “FBI, CIA, DIA or any U.S. intelligence agency concerning viral research” before, during, or after the pandemic. Fauci repeatedly dodged the questions, before falsely stating, “not to my knowledge about COVID.”

Retaliation Against Truth-Seekers

Testimony from multiple whistleblowers reveals intelligence analysts who challenged Fauci’s COVID-origin conclusions faced threat of retaliation, were marginalized, and often suffered career setbacks. This silenced dissent and fostered a culture where truth was sacrificed to conformity and credible evidence was buried.

The following are examples from whistleblower accounts that Director Gabbard has referred to the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General.

• A contractor was terminated just days after coming forward to ODNI as a whistleblower.
• Managers reminded analysts who advocated for the lab-leak hypothesis that leadership would determine which analysts would be promoted. The message was clear: disagreement with the manipulated finding would derail careers.
• Senior leaders allegedly set up roadblocks for whistleblowers, removing anonymity from the complaint process by insisting managers or attorneys be present at ODNI meetings, creating an atmosphere of intimidation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1littleprick; covid; fauci; gabbard; scamdemic; shamdemic; toolittletoolate; tulsi

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We'll see if anything comes of all this outstanding investigation and reporting.

Gabbard's last day as Director ODNI was yesterday. What a loss. She is the very best there is. Brilliant woman.

You can watch her outstanding statement on this report on X HERE.

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Here is a news report on FR on this sourced from Hindustan Times:

DNI Gabbard's bombshell Fauci allegations: Funded Wuhan research where outbreak led to COVID pandemic
Hindustan Times
June 19, 2026
By Shuvrajit Das Biswas

[Longdriver69]

Fauci needs to be arrested, tried, and executed for mass murder.

[Red Badger]

So, can we sue him?..................

[Milagros]

So now Tulsi talks after becoming a ‘has been’?

[spincaster]

So he lied to congress, the President and the American people . Tell me why he is still breathing?

[Delta 21]

[Da Ninja]

This guy needs to be in prison

[UnwashedPeasant]

Somehow, because he is a prominent Leftist, he can kill millions of people with impunity. Meanwhile a Conservative grandmother gets solitary confinement for whistleblowing about election fraud or for following police who direct her into the U.S. Capitol.

[bigbob]

Even if he’s charged, Biden’s pardon won’t be litigated til after he’s dead.

[GingisK]

The Chinese always said the virus came from that lab, and that the lab was funded by the US government. I’m talking rank and file Chinese people who saw it all start around the Wuhan lab.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Thanks, Tulsi. Always nice to know about an atrocity that nothing will be done about.

[dayglored]

> This guy needs to be in prison

This guy needs to be at room temperature.

[unixfox]

That little gnome won’t be going anywhere because we have nothing but a bunch of spineless wimps in Congress.

[drypowder]

- the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic

I seriously doubt that the lab leak was unintentional since the stealing of the 2020 Presidential election depended on the lock down and mail-in ballots and the millions of fake ballots supplied by China. All orchestrated and successful.

[Da Ninja]

It needs to hang over his head for the rest of his life like the Sword of Damocles

[catnipman]

Anthony Fauci’s actions makes Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Josef Mengele look like Sunday school teachers ...

[FlyingEagle]

We need to see Fauci Drawn,Quartered, Beheaded, in public, head on a pike on Potomac River bridge

They will come for him with the pitchforks and torches.

What a ghastly monster mass murderer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Agreed. It would have to have been the biggest coincidence in all human history to have emerge spontaneously at that particular point in time

[thegagline]

So many bureaucrats and prominent politicians lied to the American people about COVID and the COVID vaccines. They all need to be prosecuted.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

If the USA won’t do anything against Fauci then Brazil, India or Peru should send out the death squads.