By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
June 5, 2021
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WASHINGTON (AP) Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left and villainized by the right.
But with the release of a trove of Fauci’s emails this past week, Republicans’ political attacks on the nation’s top government infectious-diseases expert have gone into overdrive.
On conservative news channels, President Joe Biden’s pandemic adviser has been baselessly pilloried as a liar who misled the American people about the origins of COVID-19 to protect the Chinese government. There’s no evidence of wrongdoing, but Republican calls for his resignation have grown louder, as have demands for new investigations into the origins of the virus.
At least four State Department employees said in separate interviews that they repeatedly were 'warned' that an investigation into a possible COVID-19 leak from the Wuhan lab would 'open Pandora's Box;' and reveal that the U.S. funded.
(AFP)
The BizNews article is a shoddy and unsophisticated piece of conspiracy theory peddling, which does not, even by cherry picking from thousands of emails, produce any evidence of impropriety or dishonesty, writes
Eduard Grebe.
Tim Noakes has a long history of making misleading and false claims, including promoting the debunked theory that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine contributes to autism, and promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, GroundUp reports.
In a recent tweet, he linked to an utterly misleading BizNews article on the recent release of thousands of emails to and from Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He added the comment, Here s an email with the instructions describing: Coronavirus bioweapon production method .
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., joined "Fox News Live" Sunday to react to the recent release of thousands of Dr. Anthony Fauci's coronavirus-related emails, arguing that the correspondence proves it's time for the White House chief medical advisor to "retire or be fired."