Hannity: Fauci’s Emails Sound Like He Knew ‘Damn Well’ America Could’ve Been Funding Gain of Function Research

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HANNITY: “But now thanks to the Freedom of Information Act or request, a trove of newly unearthed emails are painting a damning picture of America's highest-paid bureaucrat. That’s Fauci. In one email, January 31st, 2020, so only ten days after the first known case of Coronavirus in the U.S., a team of America’s top scientists studying COVID-19, they warned Dr. Fauci directly that 'Some of the features of the virus look engineered.' This is ten days after the first identified case in this country, the exact day that Donald Trump put that xenophobic, hysterical travel ban in effect. One day later, Fauci and a top deputy at The National Institutes of Health exchanged frantic emails about what we now know to be gain of function research. Now for reference, gain of function, if you don’t know, that research often involves manipulating viruses for the purpose of making them more dangerous, more infectious, and more lethal. The practice is so risky that it was actually temporarily halted by our government from 2014-‘17. According to Fauci’s emails, it appears that the doctor was not only worried that the virus was the result of gain of function research, but also that his NIH, that you, the taxpayers, could have funded it. One email to Fauci reads 'The paper you sent me says the experiments were performed before the gain of function pause, but have since been reviewed and approved by the NIH. Someone at the NIH will try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad.' Yeah, you gave them money. But in the following weeks, Fauci threw cold water on the theory that Covid originated in this Wuhan virology lab. In other words, it kind of reads to me like Fauci possibly new damn well that the U.S. could have helped fund this. Really? And this seems like he wanted to cover it up with the appearance of distance.”