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Scientist Behind Wuhan Bat Research Thanked Fauci Aide for Helping Shut Down Lab-Leak Theory
© 2026 National Review ^ | August 20, 2026 4:01 PM | By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN

Posted on 08/20/2026 6:25:25 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Peter Daszak, who as president of EcoHealth Alliance directed government funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked a former Fauci aide in newly-released emails for helping shut down public speculation over the possibility that Covid-19 emerged from a lab.

David Morens, a former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hiding federal records from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Investigators obtained emails between Daszak and Morens in which Daszak mentioned sending bottles of wine to Morens and thanked him for his “behind the scenes shenanigans.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said that Morens and his co-conspirators had pledged to help “counter the narrative that Covid-19 leaked from a lab”.

EcoHealth, a New York-based non-governmental organization, was awarded millions of dollars in grants from the NIH, including funds that were subgranted to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to study bat coronaviruses. The lab-leak theory of Covid’s origins, which Dr. Anthony Fauci and other federal officials tried to publicly dismiss, suggests the virus emerged from the Wuhan institute.

Morens, in messages on his private Gmail account, promised to help Daszak win back grant funding for his bat coronavirus experiments in China. The experiments were suspended in April 2020 in response to fears that the controversial research could have caused the pandemic.

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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fauci; feather; lockdowns; mandates; peterdaszak; scamdemic; shamdemic; tar

1 posted on 08/20/2026 6:25:25 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Peter Daszak should be in a Hard Core Prison.


2 posted on 08/20/2026 6:36:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITT)
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To: tennmountainman

Imagine knowing damn well that a virus you helped create escaped from your lab and killed thousands of people.

And being proud about covering it up.

The word “evil” hardly does it justice.


3 posted on 08/20/2026 6:41:11 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

But CNN said a civet kissed a bat, gave it the virus, and people started eating raw bat on the half shell from the Wuhan wet market! They wouldn’t lie to us, now would they?


4 posted on 08/20/2026 7:12:14 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

They’re all a bunch of evil liars.


5 posted on 08/20/2026 7:16:15 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DarrellZero

They should all be doing the Spandau Ballet as far as I’m concerned.

L


6 posted on 08/20/2026 7:21:50 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: tennmountainman

“Peter Daszak should be in a Hard Core Prison.”
They should ALL be on death row, including Fauci and Obummer.
The “leak” was facilitated.


7 posted on 08/20/2026 7:23:38 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

CV19 was biowarfare appearing at a convenient time to the benefit of Americas enemies. Besides Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric look at who else was involved and gained by it.

Imagine when they start requiring a DNA altering vaccine, then they can target specific people or populations by their now designated catalogued and numbered alterations. And that’s the least of what we should all be worried about. Hybrid human Nephilim created with the image of whichever ‘god’ Pfizer or Moderna and the Davos sycophants want us to worship that week.

How easy will it be to roll this out in the future.


8 posted on 08/20/2026 8:01:08 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I ignored every mandate, went to work every day and wore a mask only to gain admission to guarded places. From the minute I heard the words “public health” I knew it was a total scam. I had a flight scheduled right after the first vacc_a_stab and got it only to get on the plane. That was it for me. One shot. I never tested myself and did not have any symptoms.


9 posted on 08/20/2026 8:09:03 PM PDT by anton
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To: DarrellZero

” helped create escaped from your lab and killed thousands of people.”

I don’t think believe it escaped. I believe it was purposely released to create the situation to infect the population with the “vaccine”, and manipulate the election.


10 posted on 08/20/2026 8:18:31 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurrReichied away". - B. Franklin)
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To: DarrellZero

They sleep Colby on their pile of money


11 posted on 08/20/2026 8:42:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It wasn’t a leak...it was deliberate.


12 posted on 08/21/2026 2:21:07 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Lurker

Devil’s dance on the air. Tyburn jig.


13 posted on 08/21/2026 2:25:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: tennmountainman

Somehow Peter Daszak has avoided any scrutiny all this time. I have always thought he was the ringleader but he just doesn’t get much mention in the press.


14 posted on 08/21/2026 7:03:17 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

They had a lot of help from the corrupt news media who are still lying for the democrats.


15 posted on 08/21/2026 9:41:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 08/22/2026 3:05:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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