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Anthony Fauci: Not only a liar from day one, evidence now proves he financed the creation of Covid

Fauci: Washington's top liar
Anthony Fauci: a liar, crook, and most important,
the man who financed the Covid epidemic.

At the end of her final day in office as director of national intelligence, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard today released a slew of formerly classified papers, documents, and email communications that prove that Anthony Fauci had not only approved extensive funding to the Wuhan lab in China that was the source of the Covid virus, he lied about his actions to Congress and to the public.

For years during the Covid panic Fauci repeatedly claimed under oath and publicly that the agency he headed, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), had never funded any “gain of function” research — research that specifically produces dangerous new pathogens like Covid. Moreover, he repeatedly denied under oath and publicly sending any funds to China’s Wuhan lab for that research.

The document dump by Gabbard proves without a shadow of a doubt Fauci was lying in every case. He is a duplicitous, deceitful, and dishonest man. This quote from press release alone should put him in prison for perjury:

Throughout the pandemic, Fauci and politicized leaders within the IC [intelligence community] 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.

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.”

He lied. But then, he also lied about masks, about the jab, about natural immunity, all of which was patently obvious during and after the panic if you exerted the slightest effort to question his statements or positions.

Now, evidence in black and white has been released that shows without doubt that he lied about funding the Wuhan research that actually led to the epidemic. He used American funds to finance research at a Chinese laboratory — controlled by a hostile power — that ended up sloppily (or maybe on purpose) leaking the pathogen and causing the epidemic, and then lied about it for years, taking actions against whistle-blowers or anyone in the medical community that dared to raise question about his actions.

Will Fauci go to jail? Probably not. For decades our corrupt leaders in Washington have been increasingly playing these kinds of games, and getting away with it. I expect the same to happen now.

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19 comments

19 comments

  • David Eastman

    There is zero chance of Fauci suffering any kind of real penalty at all. Biden’s blanket pardon has him covered, and there is zero chance that those pardons will get invalidated.

    I’d love to see Biden himself prosecuted for conspiracy after the fact, obstruction of justice, etc.

    Even in just the public sphere, most of the people on the left still nearly worship him. I have an acquaintance (fully symptomatic TDS left liberal white woman) who works in bioscience doing very high level work, and she simply cannot or will not process any of this. It just goes in one ear and out the other without engaging with a single brain cell. The noble government scientist is automatically correct, and the fact that Trump and MAGA are against him just reinforces that.

    Other people in my circle that I would call more center left, also have no interest in paying attention. You cannot get them to engage on this. To the extent that they discuss this at all, it was necessary for the government to lie to us for our own good, as people are idiots, and if the government didn’t scream about it like it was the black plague, people wouldn’t have taken any precautions at all.

    The entirely proven fact that they took research that had been banned, partly for the risk, and partly because we as a matter of national policy have been trying to shut down bioweapon research worldwide, and can’t do that effectively when we’re doing what others consider to be that kind of research ourselves, and not only did these people illegally arrange to continue that research, misappropriate public funds to do it, and do it UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CHINESE MILITARY is just not something that will listen to or accept. That’s a right wing conspiracy, and you can’t even get them to look at the evidence, because they’ve already been told that it’s all lies.

    I honestly don’t know how we deal with any of the vast majority of issues where there is a disconnect like this where the people the left trusts tell them “the truth” and only years later does the evidence come out, and by that time they won’t listen, not even to see that they people they trust are lying to them every damn time. At the very most you get a shrug and a “well everyone is lying, I’m sure your people are lying to you as well” as if that excuses the specific topic of discussion.

    • David Eastman: See my 2020 essay, Genocide is coming to America. Pay most attention to the opening story.

      • Guest

        One of my political theses is that you cannot understand present day American politics, especially Democratic party politics and even more especially Jewish Democrat party politics, without understanding the Russian revolution, in large part because the modern Democrat party is, at its core, driven by Marxist philosophy. I would argue that the corruption and bigotry in the modern Democrat party has more in common with the Stalin era purges of the early party leaders from the Bolshevik party faction and subsequent broader violence than it has in common with anything in Nazi Germany.

        The modern Democrat party derived its intellectual roots from the Frankfurt school, which was largely Jewish and explicitly Marxist in origin. Just as the original Bolsheviks lost control of their political party to Stalin, who was little more than a violent thug and most definitely not Jewish, the intellectual Marxist wing of the Democrat party, which was largely Jewish, is losing power to the violent thugs nurtured by the party. The growing antisemitism of the Democrat party should come as no surprise to anyone familar with the Russian revolution. The intellectuals, especially the Jews, in the Democrat party will be purged, just as Stalin purged his party.

        Americans are far too well armed for a broad-based genocide to take place, but Jews in America are fully justified in being nervous right now. However, the threat to Jews does not come from a broad-based societial prejudice akin to Nazi Germany; it comes from the violent thugs they have cultivated and encouraged within their own party. In short, America in the 2020s resembles Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, not Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

    • Guest

      You are probably correct, but on the bright side the Trump administration fired the lead pardon attorney (Liz Oyer) from the Biden administration. She was the one responsible for oversight of the pardon process, which was deliberately nonexistent during the Biden administration. Pardon procedures were not followed. There is an entire documentation process that has to be followed to use the autopen. These procedures were not followed for large numbers of pardons granted by the Biden administration. Without proper documentation these pardons are subject to challenge in court.

  • Cotour

    What the evidence IMO indicates is that Fauci was deeply involved in the installation of the Globalist / U.N. Agenda 2030 AND the establishment and proof of concept of this new Big Pharma mRNA technology to develop much faster financially beneficial solutions for viruses and train the people of the world to fear dying and take these mRNA proposed solutions without question.

    And conveniently Fauci was involved in financing the lab and creating the Chinese / “Bat Soup” Covid virus mutant that would force this agenda into being realized. And conveniently this all had a political effect through lockdowns and mail in voting in choosing the next president in 2020 who immediately on day one began to flood the country with millions of illegals who counter intuitively were mysteriously NOT REQUIRED TO GET A COVID SHOT!

    https://x.com/danacarvey/status/1674131570767155251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1674131570767155251%7Ctwgr%5E3d47ed7dc20f776a562c18142fb412339c7a4bf2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fsnl-legend-dana-carvey-hits-dr-fauci-stinging-impression-introducing-daily-covid-shot

    “And who among us when we heard that masses of illegal immigrants were both encouraged and incentivized IN THE MILLIONS by our own government (Democrat controlled at the time) to rush Americas purposefully by them left wide open southern border. And there was no concern for their health condition nor was there any concern that they be mandated to be “vaccinated” against Covid with the *NEW* and experimental mRNA *wonder* drug. ”

    From 3 years ago: https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/fauci-again-it-has-to-be-true-to-be-funny

    Big money, cynical big government control, selecting presidents, fulfilling big U.N. Socialist world government Agenda and get America in line by flooding it with “NEW” and future voters and numbers for representation in Congress.

    That is exactly what it looks like to me boiled down.

    Remember: Fauci: “I am the science!” Lies on top of lies presented as Objective authoritative science, DISGRACEFUL! TREASON! And possibly a case of mass murder?

    It is all a conspiracy, until it’s not a conspiracy and is your reality.

    Politics: The dirtiest, filthiest most corrupt activity that human beings participate in.

    “​STRATEGY OVER MORALITY / S.O.M. / THE TWO CONVERSATIONS

    J.G. L. 2011

    How civilizations, governments, wars and their leadership throughout history are founded, fought and at their existential human core operate.

    EXPLANATION: Strategy Over Morality describes a two-tiered “conversation” between a Public and their Politically Empowered Leadership where the Public believes there is only a single, no tiered conversation occurring. And that single conversation is assumed by the Public to relate to the Public’s morality and truth model perspective.

    CONCLUSION: The public lives and operates under a subjective moral code or within a “Pedestrian Realm” perspective which they assume their leadership which exists within the “Political Realm” is constrained by. This is a subjective false perspective conclusion on the part of the public. Leadership at its existential core is not about morality, truth and honesty. Politically empowered Political Realm leadership is ultimately about the fundamental exercise of power and “IT’s” subjective agenda interests and “IT’s” political power prevailing. And within this Strategy Over Morality model the potential for the abuse of power related to the Pedestrian Realm perspective is ever present.
    ——
    EXTENSION: Strategy Over Morality describes a model in which leadership or their empowered subordinates within government can subjectively justify an interpretation of their core fiduciary responsibilities which becomes paramount over and above the public’s truth and morality model interests. Where plausible deniability can be claimed when “necessary” “immoral” acts or modified “truth” strategies are employed or executed by leadership, their subordinates or by arm’s length leadership proxies.”

    • Cotour

      Evidence: S.O.M. proof of concept / theory:

      In order to be forced to question what you are doing in moral terms there must be a condition that exists that people are already operating within who have chosen to abandon their Pedestrian Realm morality.

      John Kyriakos: Form CIA asset: https://youtube.com/shorts/WhS-UxLGT5I?si=P2HUMWTyJNipNzTb 1 min.

      Those who become politically empowered and exist within the Political Realm operate in a gray environment where taking care of business as prescribed by leadership or leadership proxies operate in a morality is optional environment.

      Remember: Government and politically empowered politicians are not in the truth and morality business; they are in the power and control business.

      YOU, those in the Pedestrian Realm, the citizen, the public operate in an environment where there are truth and morality.

  • wayne

    In the Alternate Universe, Fauci has already been fed to those giant feral pigs in Texas, and his entire genetic legacy has been erased from the Earth with extreme prejudice.

  • Given what Tulsi released yesterday, a reasonable course of action would be to drag Fauci before congress for a hearing(s) on his participation in COVID. His pardon gives him complete immunity on what he did. It does not give him immunity from testifying completely and truthfully. When he lies again to congress, which he will, bust him for perjury which will be committed well after the autopen pardon. Cheers –

  • D3F1ANT

    Good thing they let Fauci off the hook. ZERO consequences. This is the Way. I had hoped to see Americans find Justice with the Trump DOJ…boy howdy…was I ever wrong about that.

  • Max

    You cannot be pardoned for a crime for which you have never been convicted.
    The Biden blanket pardons for his son and other political actors is viewed by law-enforcement has an order to “not investigate” or pursue prosecution although the evidence is overwhelming.

    Trump has also performed such pardons.
    He has recently given Bair pharmaceuticals, who bought Monsanto, A pardon against litigation for the cancer deaths of Monsanto. The same deal Hillary Clinton as a senator push through Congress so pharmaceuticals will not be held liable for bad vaccines.
    This allowed vaccine makers to test their new dangerous products directly on humans bypassing animal testing. (under emergency authorization)

    The most recent revelation in the news media is trump stopping the investigation into his own assassination attempt. Very suspicious, but then I’m always suspicious when actors who spent most of their life in the entertainment industry become politicians and what kind of planned false flag events will be perpetrated by the experts against the gullible population.
    The Cold War, coming Ice Age, greenhouse/climate change, man-made pandemic… These these were just in my lifetime.

    • lt

      The claim originated when Tucker Carlson stated that former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino told him Trump personally shut down the 2024 Butler shooting investigation. Carlson said this occurred after his team obtained social‑media data tied to the shooter, Thomas Crooks.
      Bongino, however, forcefully denied this on his own show, calling Carlson’s claim false and saying Trump was simply satisfied with the FBI’s conclusion that both attackers (Crooks and Ryan Routh) were lone actors.

    • Calvin Dodge

      You cannot be pardoned for a crime for which you have never been convicted.

      Many people believe that, including Rand Paul.

      Unfortunately, they’re wrong. The Constitution says the President can pardon “offences”. It says nothing about being convicted.

  • COL BEAUSABRE

    Is Drawing and Quartering still on the books?

    • Alej Marcos

      Should be. Publicly.

    • Dick Eagleson

      Not even in the UK. But death penalty is still on the books. If every Democrat elected or appointed official was actually held responsible for their malefactions, the line outside the death house at Ft. Leavenworth would look like a ticket line for the opening weekend of Star Wars. And the Bidens, Obamas and Clintons would be at the head of it.

  • Dave in Denver

    I have pondered the viability or capability of “mapping the genome” of this covid and determining the likelihood it was natural versus manufactured. Challenging given many techniques of “manufactured” involve hybrid mice and selective infection of interesting viruses. So, in a way, an arranged but natural process. And if some such investigation was conducted, how do the findings get out where We the People don’t say it’s another lie, or if a lie, that we buy it anyway. <— there’s our real problem

    So, yeah, they will get away with it. And probably knew that from the start. (How cynical is that?) So what were they after, in the end?

    • Cotour

      ” So what were they after, in the end?”

      Proof of concept (mRNA manipulation / mass cash flow) and mass compliance as the world bowed and America got in line with the AGENDA.

  • Jeff Wright

    I think all gain-of-function research should be done off-world….not just sample-returns
    https://phys.org/news/2026-06-nasa-biocontainment-facility-moon-earth.html

    I get the need for Level 4 HOT ZONE labs….new bugs are always coming out of Kitum Cave, and you need to fund these to get ahead of Mother Nature—which does a Fauci for millions of years without oversight mind you. Hold nature up to EPA standards—and she fails too.

    Fauci probably thought he was like Radar or Sparky on MASH in getting creative as to getting necessary supplies.

    The problem I have was his desire to dictate terms on how folks live. That still goes on:
    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-parents-newborn-girls-lifesaving-vitamin.html

    Since vitamin K is essential for blood clotting, many hospitals refuse to perform a circumcision unless a baby boy has first received the vitamin K shot. Unlike boys, girls do not undergo circumcision. Parents who are hesitant about the vitamin K shot face less pressure to accept it, which may contribute to the higher refusal rates among daughters. The findings are published in JAMA Network Open.

    The refusal—even if based on wanting to be helpful–is proof that doctors still want to play God in the lives of others.

    No more!

    Imagine if I sold pens to doctors, but forbade them to write prescriptions with it–because some teenager might abuse the pain medication that was supposed to go to her granny.

    One of the worst quotes ever was about how doctors make the worst patients.

    NO!

    It is just that–as patients–they finally see the hardships they have been inflicting on everyone else.

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