So the little *****r in his pride and vanity got played by... whom?
The CCP? Hell yes. And a host of others with familiar names, all about to now leave him holding the syringe. The org chart will never be published.
Fauci knows his time is limited to join the pantheon of Pasteur, Jenner, Salk, Walter Reed etc.
He was willing to do anything to continue GOF, which, in my mind, Fauci thought was his path to the big prize, modern rapidly fielded synthetic super vaccines.
Just my opinion. It’s not about money, or power, but ego.