Fauci Defends Chinese Scientists But Says No Guarantee China Lab Didn t Use U.S. Funding for Research
On 5/26/21 at 2:10 PM EDT
Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, where he found himself defending Chinese scientists during questioning from Sen. John Kennedy.
The Louisiana Republican kept pressing Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, if it was possible scientists in China lied to him in regards to not spending money on gain-of-function research. Fauci repeatedly said he trusts the scientists, though conceded there is no way of guaranteeing that they were fully truthful about how U.S. grant money was spent.
David Daleiden, a defendant in an indictment stemming from a Planned Parenthood video he helped produce, speaks to the media after appearing in court at the Harris County Courthouse on February 4, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Daleiden is facing an indictment on a misdemeanor count of purchasing human organs, and along with defendant Sandra Merritt, is charged with tampering with a governmental record. | Eric Kayne/Getty Images
A pro-life activist is calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify before the U.S. Congress about his knowledge of federal funding awarded to a Pennsylvania university conducting experiments on human fetal tissue, including one experiment where illegally aborted babies scalps were grafted onto lab rats.Â
Biden: Some US Intel Members Believe COVID-19 Came From Chinese ‘Laboratory Accident’
President Joe Biden said on May 26 that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) believes there are “two likely scenarios” that may have caused the CCP virus outbreak in China, noting that a significant number of officials believe the virus was spread due to a “laboratory accident.”
His statement, released by the White House, comes amid officials saying they don’t believe the virus developed naturally contradicting the official narrative of the Chinese Communist Party, which has said the virus was spread through a wet market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, in late 2019. In recent days, a growing number of officials, including U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci, have suggested that the virus didn’t develop naturally.