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.
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Just yesterday I compared Dr. Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance to a Bond villain, illustrating that Daszak has his had tentacles in every defense of the Wuhan Lab or the natural zoonotic mutation event theory. Daszak has been pulling strings from the shadows as the defense has been laid against the lab-leak theory, accounting for the unfolding Chinese cover-up and finger-pointing, looking more credible every day.
On Friday, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by two doctors titled “
“Ironically, given the recent prominence of the lab escape theory, the questions the world wants answered about the virus and the astonishingly fast development of the vaccines that can quash the pandemic depend entirely on research conducted in labs like the Wuhan Institute of Virology and across the world over the past several decades.”