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Folks, what I'm going to get to today is I don't even know how to describe the depth of the depravity we'd be talking here.
Let me just put the bottom line up front.
Is there a criminal investigation going on into the lab leak theory?
And if so, is that criminal investigation about bigger things than we even think?
Oh, is that a tease?
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So again, I was waiting to discuss this with you.
I had this information earlier from multiple sources and I saw it best summed up best on a Twitter thread I have retweeted.
You know my thing with Twitter.
Try to stay off it as much as possible, and I don't put really any original content on there for me.
You have to go to Parler to get that, where it's my thoughts.
I try not to use that at all, but sometimes this information's so important, other people put out there.
You will see me retweet things occasionally on that, and one of them is from a Dawson S. Field account.
It's the best one I've seen sum this up.
I got this a few days ago from someone else who pointed it out to me, and then another source.
The question is this, is there a criminal investigation going on?
Into this Fauci email gate thing, and who's the subject of it?
So first things first, let's set it up.
There's an article in my newsletter today, Bongito.com slash newsletter, I really encourage you to read.
It's from the Daily Caller.
It's titled, Report.
U.S.
government officials encourage the COVID-19 origin cover-up by Michael Ginsburg.
Was there a cover up?
Is there an investigation into that cover up?
And most importantly, what were they covering up?
So again, let's set up first screenshot from the piece.
They give you kind of some background on the origins, this lab leak hypothesis that the Chinese government may have suffered a lab leak, which caused this coronavirus plague around the world.
So there was a Department of State employee by the name of Christopher Park, and it says, quote, The Caller article, that Christopher Park did not want to open Pandora's box of U.S.
funding for gain-of-function research, according to a Vanity Fair report.
The government indirectly funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through grants to a non-profit group called EcoHealth Alliance.
That's important.
Keep EcoHealth Alliance in your head this entire time.
The funding was not subject to a Department of Health and Human Services review board that could have rejected the grant because the sub-agency that awarded the grant did not alert the review board.
So step one of this, big question.
Is there a criminal investigation going on?
What the hell are they investigating?
We now know that it appears likely that at a minimum we indirectly funded this Wuhan Institute of Virology where it's now believed by many this coronavirus might have leaked from.
Everybody tracking?
We'll move on.
I want to get through this, there's a lot of material here.
Part two from this Daily Caller piece.
EcoHealth Alliance, the group that received taxpayer funds, distributed $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology between 2014 and 2019 for the purpose of studying bat coronaviruses.
The money was granted to EcoHealth by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health sub-agency led by... Dr. Anthony Fauci!
Hmm.
The money was distributed during a government moratorium on gain-of-function research.
Keep that up a minute, King.
Important takeaways here.
We know that Wuhan Institute of Virology got money, got it from the EcoHealth Alliance, that got money from Fauci's National Institutes of Health sub-agency, okay?
And we know it was distributed during a, quote from the piece, moratorium on this.
In other words, we weren't allowed to do it, but someone did it.
Here's the last part of this screenshot.
If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology, an NIH official reportedly said.
Ever since the moratorium, everyone's gone wink wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.
[laughter]
This is getting great till we get to the videos.
This is getting good.
So there's a moratorium on gain of function research, making viruses more powerful.
It looks like someone in the government was wink wink to quote doing it anyway.
And then the money made its way indirectly to EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan Institute where the lab, the lab we believe the coronavirus may have leaked from.
You're like, all right, we know all this.
Oh, I have to set it up.
This is important.
Third screen shot from this piece.
We'll get to the videos, which are even more stunning.
It says here this Christopher Park was not the only government official to oppose pursuing this lab leak hypothesis.
However, this guy Donato told Vanity Fair that an intelligence analyst struggled to find a report written by officials working at a department of energy lab.
DeNano told Vanity Fair he viewed the report as being intentionally buried within the classified collection system.
Department of Energy officials then attempted to block State Department officials from meeting with the report's author, DeNano alleged.
U.S.
government has prohibited gain-of-function research, making viruses more powerful.
Sounds like a good idea.
Appears people in the U.S.
government indirectly funded that kind of research anyway.
It appears that that money we used to fund it, despite the moratorium, made its way to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Now appears likely that the virus may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Appears there was a report done on it, and it appears that someone in the government system is burying that report so no one can see it, according to these allegations.
Very, very disturbing.
Read the Daily Caller piece, spongino.com slash newsletter.
It's right there.
Now that we have this set up, Looking at the clock because I want to make sure I summed it up in 10 minutes, which is good.
10 minutes.
Now we have to ask the question, well, what are they covering up?
Why are they making reports disappear?
Why are death threats being issued?
I'm going to ask you a question that's probably going to get me in trouble, but it's the good kind of trouble.
Because I've always asked questions about Spygate and other things that have gotten me in trouble only to later be vindicated.
I watched Maura Eliasson on Fox News last night on Bret Baier's show, who is a pretty pronounced leftist, I think it's obvious, and always toes the leftist company line.
And now Maura Eliasson's like, well, maybe we should have looked at that lab leak hypothesis, but these other theories about a bioweapon, oh, they're crazy.
Here we are, back to the, you're a conspiracy theorist again.
The minute Moralizon said that, I remembered an email I got a few days ago, and I said, here we go.
Leftists at it again.
Instead of entertaining an idea, calling it a conspiracy theory from the start.
That's why, of course, leftists will jump all over this segment now, but that's great.
As long as they put the link to the show, I'm very happy.
Here's the question.
What are they covering up?
Did we finance a bioweapon from China?
Oh, the verdict is in, folks.
Leftists are clawing at their faces, pulling hair out.
Claw, salivating.
How about you?
Conspiracy theory.
Oh, conspiracy.
You can't say that.
Face, claw, salivating at the mouth.
Foam, foam everywhere.
Foam all over the place.
Because leftists are generally dunce imbeciles, and any time you ask a question that makes them uncomfortable, of course they go into a panic and call it conspiracy theories.
Are they covering up the fact that we may, I repeat may, have financed a Chinese bioweapon with gain-of-function research money that was paid out after the government prohibited gain-of-function research money?
Watching the leftists go crazy over the idea that this may have been a bioweapon says to me, The effect is unintentional, I'm sure, you know?
The intentional effect of the left, by calling everyone wackos and conspiracy theorists who actually ask this question about a bioweapon, is to shut us up.
But what really happens, as I talk about it more, because the left is telling us to shut up, makes me believe there could be something there.
Let me be clear on this, because I believe in facts on the show.
Am I telling you this is a Chinese bioweapon, COVID-19?
No, that's not what I'm telling you.
Am I telling you it could be?
Oh yeah.
Did we finance a bioweapon from China that wiped out millions of people with our taxpayer dollars?
Digest that one a minute.
I'd like to say it's scandal of the century, but after Spygate and what could come next, I'm hesitant to give out that gold medal right away in the Scandal Olympics.
Did we finance a bioweapon with U.S.
taxpayer dollars that killed millions of people and escaped from the lab?
Fauci's panicking about this one, too.
Fauci gave a media appearance the other day and was like, what do you think?
The Chinese built a bioweapon to kill millions of their citizens and Americans?
Uh, no, doc.
I don't believe they leaked it on purpose.
That's why it's called a leak.
Now, why do I think this?
That it's possible we may have financed a bioweapon.
Well, one, as I told you, the leftist response is always indicative that we should double down, that we're over a target.
When they start freaking out, it usually means it's true.
But here's Admiral Brett Giroir on, I believe, with Bill Hemmer on the Fox News channel.
And listen, Brett Giroir, who was intimately involved with the whole coronavirus task force under the Trump administration, he's been very outspoken lately.
And Brett Giroir was on Bill Hemmer, and here Brett Giroir just goes for it.
Check this one out.
It is not outrageous to hypothesize, you say, that the virus could have been part of an offensive bioweapons program and leaked out accidentally.
Sure, that seems to be discounted by Dr. Collins and other people.
I think the most likely explanation is that it was gain-of-function mutation work.
It leaked out.
But unlike the United States, the United States does not have an offensive biological weapons program.
There are multiple open sources of intel that suggest that China has an extensive biological weapons program and that it's integrated between state laboratories, academia, and private industry.
So it is not crazy, as people suggest, like Dr. Collins suggested, that this could have been part of a bio program.
You think he's just throwing that out there because he's got nothing to do on the Bill Hemmer program?
He's bored, twiddling his thumbs.
He's like, let me make something up.
Oh, you know what?
Buy a weapon.
Yeah, that's right.
That sounds good.
You think he's eager for like Twitter retweets and soundbites like he cares about that?
Folks.
This, again, I'm telling you this, understanding Spygate, the impeachment hoax, these mega scandals we've lived through in just the last five, six years.
I'm telling you this one.
This one is, this is it.
I mean, this is potentially the gold, the platinum medal winner of scandals, if this turns out to be true.
And seriously, to the leftists who are obsessed with my show, the more you call this a conspiracy theory, the more I will double down.
You've been warned.
I don't care if ScrewTube bans us or Fakebook.
I have Rumble.
I have Parler.
I have other outlets.
I don't care.
This may be the most important story of our lifetime, and your attacks will only enrage me further to talk about it more.
You've been warned.
I'm just putting it out there.
You think Garar's just going on Bill Hemmer and throwing that out there because he doesn't know anything?
He was only a key member of the task force who obviously has access to top secret information about the coronavirus program and he makes a pretty key point that yes, the Chinese government, we have multiple intelligence sources which have outed repeatedly the Chinese government's active bioweapons creation program.
Wouldn't that really be bizarre if our taxpayer dollars somehow assisted a bioweapons program?
Now, let's go back to the beginning here.
I kind of put the bottom line up front.
Now we're going to start to build the case a little more.
That somebody's hiding something, and it's clear that there's probably a law enforcement investigation going on right now.
And again, the question is, what the hell did U.S.
taxpayers pay for, and did somebody try to make it go away?
The investigation, that is.
Dr. Redfield used to head the CDC.
Dr. Redfield opened up Pandora's box back in March.
I don't know if you remember this, but he was talking to Sanjay Gupta from CNN.
He gave an interview back in March when the lab leak hypothesis was still considered by media buffoons, was still considered to be a conspiracy theory.
Remember that?
Back then, if you said it, you'd be banned from Twitter.
We said it anyway.
So did many others.
I don't really care what they say.
But seriously, just back in March, what are we in now?
I'm losing track of time.
June.
Not that long ago, this was still considered a nutty conspiracy theory.
This was the moment, though, Pandora's box was open, and the so-called media series people, what we would call the buffoons in the mainstream media, but they consider themselves seriously, had to start to pay attention.
This was a key interview.
Check this out.
If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan.
September, October.
That's my own view.
It's my own opinion.
I'm allowed to have opinions now.
You know, I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.
Other people don't believe that.
That's fine.
Science will eventually figure it out.
It's not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker.
Kind of odd, no, that former Trump officials in the Trump administration, both Redfield and Garrar, who again had access to top secret information and were involved with the coronavirus task force with President Donald Trump.
Once President Trump left office, felt the freedom to speak out.
One of them says he's at this point believes it could be a lab leak.
And the other one says, hey, we should pay attention to their bioweapons program.
You think that's a big coinkydink?
Now, as I said just a few minutes ago, you can always tell you're over a target gauging the response by the leftists and the degree of the freakout.
So after Redfield went out and spoke about that, you'll notice that we just found out from the Epoch Times, you'll see this headline, former CDC director Redfield received death threats from scientists for supporting Wuhan lab leak theory.
Ladies and gentlemen, someone was panicking.
Redfield was talking about a lab leak.
Garar's now talking about the possibility of a bioweapon.
We now know from the Daily Caller report, our money was indirectly used to fund this kind of stuff.
You see why the panic's ensuing now?
And that leads to part two of this, where we'll get to, is there a criminal investigation going on right now?
Was there a pressure campaign to shut people up who wanted to talk about this?
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All right, so Garrar, Redfield, former Trump officials, kind of opening that box up.
Everybody starts panicking.
So now let's get to this part two.
I said, is there a criminal investigation?
What's my evidence here?
Again, please go check out the Twitter thread.
I retweeted by Dawson S. Field.
It's quite interesting.
A lot of this stuff will be in there.
I'm going to combine it with some stuff I got from someone else as well.
So what makes me think there's a criminal investigation into efforts to make this coverup go away, to cover up the coverup of the lab leak hypothesis?
Well, here's an interesting email that came out in the Fauci emails.
You saw some of it the other day.
It's an email from a guy by the name of Peter Daszak, who conveniently works with the EcoHealth Alliance I discussed earlier.
You see why I did this in order?
EcoHealth Alliance is that entity that got your taxpayer dollars and was working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Peter Daszak worked there.
Peter Daszak Conveniently, I want you to pay very close attention to the date, April 18th.
Emails Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Pay very close attention to the date, April 18th, 2020.
Peter Daszak, Anthony Fauci.
He's emailing someone in Fauci's office and he's seeing him saying, Hey, listen, I really basically want to thank you guys for your comments talking about Fauci.
He says, quote, from my perspective, your comments are brave and coming from your trusted voice will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus origins.
He says, once this is over, I look forward to thanking you in person and letting you know how important your comments are to all of us.
So the guy who works with the entity who got taxpayer dollars, and then indirectly we use them to fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is sending Fauci a thank you on April 18th, 2020?
What is he thanking Fauci for?
Well here's April 17th 2020, the day before Daszak thanks Fauci, and here's what Fauci said the day before.
Check this out.
There was a study recently that we can make available to you where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in So there was a paper?
they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally
consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
So I mean, the paper will be available.
I don't have the authors right now, but we can make that available to you.
So there was a paper.
So Foushee says on April 17th, hey, you press.
Press.
Borg members of the press.
I'm sorry.
You know the Borg, they think with a collective mind.
I don't even watch Star Trek.
Someone just told me about the Borg.
But I've heard they think with a collective hive mind.
So Borg members of the press, don't worry.
There's a paper coming out.
And this paper is going to be pretty clear that don't worry.
It wasn't a lab leak.
This was an evolutionary process.
Jump from a pangolin or bat or whatever to a human being.
No worries, folks.
And weird, the next day, Peter Daszak sends an email thanking him.
Guy, can we go back to that Daszak email we put up before?
Sorry, I don't mean to go out of order, but it's important.
Scroll down a little bit.
There's a redaction there on the email, highlighted.
That highlight, again, hat tip to Austin Fields.
I always like to give appropriate credit.
There's part of it that's redacted.
The email from Peter Daszak the day after Fauci's comments saying, hey, there's a paper out there saying this is all BS.
Don't worry about it.
The redaction is interesting because it's redacted.
We'd like to know what it says, but the redaction is even more interesting because if you look at the highlight, it's redacted because of B7A.
What is B7A?
That gives the reason for the redaction.
You ready?
Get a load of this one.
That's the code for if we put this out there, it would interfere with an active law enforcement proceeding.
Oh, really?
Really? Press house Java there. And.
An active law enforcement proceeding.
Well, you may say to yourself, is Fauci under investigation?
I mean, it was a Fauci FOIA.
I'm not sure.
I doubt it because as Dawson points out in the thread, you can read it yourself and you should.
Well, nothing else is really, I mean, nothing, I shouldn't say nothing else.
There's very little redacted in some of the other emails too.
Meaning that's kind of odd.
If they were investigating Fauci, you'd think there'd be more redaction.
So I don't know is the answer to that.
But what I do know is this.
There is some law enforcement proceeding going on.
And they redacted portions of Daszak's email.
Who could they be investigating?
And remember that Fauci presser.
Where he talks about this paper that says, don't worry, it's all natural.
Well, here's another email from one of Fauci's deputies, Greg Fulkers.
And I want you to pay very close attention to the date, and it may explain where the panic started internally.
The panic started externally when Redfield gave that interview in March to Sanjay Gupta.
But internally, the panic broke out at a different time.
Put up that email.
Here's an email from Greg Fulkers, one of Fauci's deputies at NIH.
You can see it's obviously his official government email.
He sent it Friday, January 31st, 2020.
It's a paper.
It says, Mining Coronavirus Genomes for Clues to Origins Outbreak.
They were asking a lot of questions in this paper.
Questions people didn't want asked.
Like, hey, is this, uh, you know, could this thing possibly be from lab or else?
Where did this thing come from?
So Fauci's deputy back in January, before that April 17th conference, seems a little bit concerned about where the origins are and other people appeared very concerned too.
Hmm.
Back in January.
Maybe Daschack and them started a panic right around then.
Why are people asking questions about where this came from?
Because it's only one of the biggest questions of our time.
Here's a weird email though.
Here's the next one.
Weird because you don't see Fauci's email anywhere on it.
Yet the FOIA request, Freedom of Information Act, for Fauci's emails was for Fauci's emails.
But if you'll notice, you don't really see Fauci's email anywhere.
Is it redacted?
This is a strange email.
Because that same guy, Greg Folkers, who in January was a recipient of this paper article wondering about the origins of this, Same guy's on it, Greg Folkers, Fauci's deputy.
And you notice he's warning about being a co-author on a paper?
He's saying, I agree, I will not be a co-author.
There's this paper they want someone in Fauci's office to be a co-author on.
Is that the same paper he was talking about April 17th?
Well, here's a question for you.
Is this the paper?
Here's the next element here.
From this, what is it, New Jersey, excuse me, some Journal of Medicine.
Is this the paper that they wanted him to be a co-author on?
New England Journal of Medicine.
Escaping Pandora's box, another novel coronavirus.
Oh, look at the authors, ladies and gentlemen.
Taubenberger, MD, PhD, Peter Daszak, PhD, and David Morins.
Well, what did they say in this paper in the New England Journal of Medicine?
Let's go to the next part of this.
This is just really fascinating.
It says, of course scientists tell us SARS-CoV-2 did not escape from a jar, RNA sequences closely resemble those of viruses that silently circulate in bats, and epidemiological information implicates a bat-origin virus infecting unidentified animal species sold in China's live animal markets.
So really weird how Peter Daszak and this guy Tautenberger are authors on this paper.
Fascinating.
This paper says, no worries folks, don't you worry, looks like it just came from a bat market thing, live animal markets, nobody worry, lab leak, schmab leak, no worries.
Is that the paper?
Is that the paper they want someone from Fauci's office to be a co-author on?
Is that the paper Fauci citing in this April 17th presser where he says, media people, don't worry.
There's a paper that says this is evolutionary, no lab leak at all.
And is that the paper the next day Daszak, one of the authors of the paper is thanking Fauci basically for his comments on an email that's been redacted because of an ongoing criminal investigation, law enforcement investigation.
Ladies and gentlemen, what's redacted there?
What's redacted there?
Let's go back to Fauci again.
Here's Fauci again.
I'm going to play this again.
Talking about this paper and giving basically marching orders to the press to never speak of the lab leak hypothesis again because Fauci was their messiah.
Listen now again.
The paper's been out there.
He knows about the paper.
Daszak's one of the authors of the paper with this guy Tautenberger.
Tautenberger, whatever his name is.
And Fauci knows what it says.
And Daszak appears to have a very good reason here for not wanting to talk about LabLeaks.
Check it out.
There was a study recently that we can make available to you where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve.
And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
So, I mean, the paper will be available.
I don't have the authors right now, but we can make that available to you.
Was that Daszak's paper that he thanked him about the next day?
Why was Daszak, again, so eager to make all this go away?
All right, I'm going to get to my next sponsor.
But on the other side of this, I'm going to show you something odd that happened just six days later after Fauci made those comments.
Just six days later, folks.
If Joe Biden was doing it, just six days later.
If you're watching on video, you'll get it.
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So after that Fauci presser, where Fauci seems to squash the lab leak hypothesis, and of course the lemming media is like, okay, Fauci, we love you.
Fauci, whatever you say.
Despite mounds of evidence it may have leaked from a lab.
Something happened six days afterwards.
Look at this CBS News report.
Now the report's dated May 11, 2020 by Scott Pelley.
But I want you to read the headline, read it closely.
I'm gonna get to a screenshot from it in a minute.
Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure.
Wouldn't it be really, really insane if just six days after Fauci's telling everyone, don't worry, read this paper, and I believe the paper is the Daschack paper, saying, don't worry about the lab leak, this looks like it's natural.
Daschack, whose EcoHealth Alliance got taxpayer money to help indirectly fund the lab they think it leaked from, Wouldn't it be really weird if it was Daszak's funding that was cut despite Fauci six days earlier saying, hey, Daszak, that's our guy.
Don't worry.
Check out the paper.
Here, from the CBS piece.
It's about Daszak.
But his funding from the NIH, the National Institutes of Health, was killed two weeks ago by a political disinformation campaign targeting China's Wuhan Institute.
You see how that works?
You see how that works?
Fauci gives the marching orders.
Everyone obey Daszak and the Daszak paper.
Pay no attention to the lab leak theory behind the curtain.
Conveniently, Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance is getting taxpayer money and indirectly funding the lab we think it leaked from in China, a lab we believe may have been involved in bioweapons.
And what happens?
Gosh, six days later, somebody in the Trump administration, probably Trump himself, gets wind of this and goes, we're funding this crap?
No more!
No more!
But was someone in that circle trying then to pressure people in the government to make this thing go away?
Because they didn't want the scandal of the century, taxpayer funding of a potential bioweapon getting out there?
Was there a pressure campaign?
Let's do this.
Sorry, folks.
I gotta get it together on the administrative front.
Was there a pressure campaign?
Look at this article from April 29th, 2020.
Just a couple of weeks after that Fauci presser there.
Why the U.S.
government stopped funding a research project on bats and coronaviruses.
And someone got really vocal about his efforts.
He was very, very annoyed that his funding got cut.
Wouldn't it be weird if it was Daschack?
Well, we know it was his funding that got cut.
And wouldn't it be weird if he admitted to basically putting the squeeze on people at the NIH to getting that money back?
Like I said, like I says, my grandmother used to say, like I says.
I says, wouldn't it be really weird if Daschack already admitted to pressuring the NIH?
Well, let's go to the NPR piece.
I'm just reporting what's out there publicly.
You can look at it all yourself.
Quote, Daszak said, "This was particularly mystifying because just a day earlier, NIH
had released a strategic plan detailing COVID-19 research priorities."
Here's the quote from Daszak.
"Our work is relevant to all four priority areas within the strategic plan," said Daszak.
Quote, we really don't understand the rationale behind this, talking about the cancellation of the money, he says.
Quote, and we've reached out to NIH and we haven't received a response yet.
Did they reach out?
That's interesting they reached out.
What were they doing on, what were they reaching out about?
Was somebody trying to squelch something?
Are these not fair journalistic questions we're allowed to ask?
It's only the biggest plague of our modern lifetime.
Are these unfair?
We had a line here.
Are these unfair questions?
You know what's even more interesting here?
As Daszak and others are, and this crew of people in the media are, citing the lab leak hypothesis in 2020 as a disinformation campaign by conservatives, which actually looks like it could be true now, meaning the disinformation campaign was actually by the media and others involved with that little circle of people.
Right around this time, in order to make the lab leak hypothesis go away, the already broken WHO, World Health Organization, which has misled us from the start, putting out a series of nonsensical statements, I actually cover it in my book, Follow the Money.
The last chapter on the WHO in China is pretty damning, and I wrote it months ago.
The WHO wanted to issue a report to make sure nobody paid any attention to the lab leak hypothesis.
How do I know that?
Well, here's a Yahoo News story.
Zachary Evans.
WHO report dismisses COVID lab leak hypothesis.
This is back in March of 2021.
They're still trying to make this thing go away.
Here's screenshot number one from this Yahoo piece.
A joint report by Western and Chinese scientists.
You should dismiss it right there.
Contracting with the WHO urges exploration of every COVID origin hypothesis except for that of the lab leak, the AP reported on Monday.
Isn't that convenient?
We're going to investigate everything but the lab leak.
It goes on.
The report expected to be released on Tuesday was based on the findings of an investigative team that traveled to Wuhan in February and suggests that back-to-human transmission is the most likely origin.
They're still doing this in March of 2021?
Now, wouldn't this be... I mean, I'm running out of adjectives.
Bonkers?
Looney Tunes?
If one of the people involved in that investigative team Was the Peter Daszak, whose emails redacted due to a law enforcement investigation, an email he sent to Fauci thanking Fauci for citing his paper, also basically eliminating the possibility of a lab leak hypothesis, the same Daszak involved in the EcoHealth Alliance that got taxpayer money.
And worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology that may have leaked a bioweapon?
Wouldn't that be a fascinating investigation?
Well, let's go to screenshot number two from the Yahoo piece and let's see who was involved with that investigation that didn't even look into the lab leak hypothesis just back in March.
The only American permitted by China to join the investigation, Peter Daszak!
Wow!
Wow, China wanted him, that's wow, what a big winky dink right there.
The only American permitted to join the investigation by China, Dash Hacks steered
$598,000 in grants from the NIH to the Wuhan Institute of Virology between 2014 and 2020.
The grants were in part intended to fund research into bat coronaviruses and were supplied through the EcoHealth Alliance, a research non-profit headed by Daszak.
Six of the 17 Western scientists permitted to join the team after Beijing was given veto power over its members' work for EcoHealth.
So the only guy, American, permitted to go and examine everything but the lab leak hypothesis, which the WHO basically, I guess, forbade in this study, was Peter Daszak, the guy who thanked Fauci and whose paper, I believe, Fauci cited April 17th of 2020 and who Daszak thanked on April 18th of 2020 in an email now redacted because of a law enforcement investigation.
Here's a video of Daszak from 60 Minutes, where even Leslie Stahl, one of the worst journalists you'll ever see in your life, she's up there with Christiane Amanpour, but she actually asks a good question, which is stunning.
Here's Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes talking to Peter Daszak.
Same guy.
Chinese seem to want and they really seem to love Daszak.
And she asks, hey, when you went over and did this study into the whole, you know, origins thing and which discounted the lab leak before it even started, how do you know it didn't leak from a lab?
Listen to this answer.
It's even Leslie Stahl is incredulous.
Check this out.
I'm on the WHO team for a reason.
And you know, if you're going to work in China on coronaviruses and try and understand their origins, you should involve the people who know the most about that.
And for better or for worse, I do.
He says the team did look into the leak theory during a visit with lab scientists.
We met with them, we said, do you audit the lab?
And they said, annually?
Did you audit it after the outbreak?
Yes.
Was anything found?
No.
Do you test your staff?
Yes.
But you're just taking their word for it.
Well, what else can we do?
So you're just taking their word for it.
Well, what else can we do?
I don't know.
Ask for the blood samples from the three employees of the Wuhan lab that got sick from what appears to be a viral infection right around November when the coronavirus pandemic started.
Maybe that's a good place to start, Peter.
I'm just going to throw that out there for you to entertain.
Wow, Dan.
You were a criminal investigator.
What a great... No, no, no.
I'm being funny.
Any idiot would understand that.
Three people got sick in November in the Wuhan lab from a viral infection.
Maybe you could ask for those blood tests?
Don't worry.
Peter said the Chinese government told him.
Nothing to see here, folks.
I'm gonna say this again.
Put a...
Bread on this sandwich and wrap it up and bookend this segment.
I got one more piece of video, but... I'm not kidding when I... I want you to really, really digest this because this will be the scandal of our lifetime.
Did we finance a Chinese bioweapon with taxpayer dollars that killed millions of people?
And did someone Try to pressure government officials to cover it up.
Let me play one last seven, eight seconds tops cut of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who still claims now that, hey, I just messed up in the emails.
The science was evolving.
Well, if it was evolving, why were you thanking people about evolving science that seemed to downplay the most likely hypothesis the lab leads?
And why, for months and weeks afterwards, were you still claiming the lab leak hypothesis was either unlikely or semi-ridiculous?
You doubt me?
Here's Anthony Fauci again.
This could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
The way the mutations have naturally evolved.
Really?
Could not have been?
Somebody pressuring somebody to say that?
They didn't want their role in financing, at a minimum, gain-of-function research, which we know, but again, possibly a bioweapon?
All right, let me get to my last sponsor.
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Okay, just quickly on the jobs numbers.
The jobs numbers were another huge disappointment.
We were supposed to hit the 650 jobs created in May.
It was 559,000.
That's not a mystery to people out there who are rapidly figuring out that the reason we have fallen short on those jobs numbers is because we're paying people not to work with unnecessarily high unemployment benefits.
Simple as that, folks.
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Loaded Newsday, we got this UFO thing too.
Alright, let me roll through this quick.
I'm gonna make this segment fast, but it's important.
This segment's called "Is the GOP finally growing a pair?"
Look at this article the hell.
I saw this yesterday.
Rebecca, I'm not going to say that last name because if I say that wrong, that could break really bad.
Rebecca, I don't know how to pronounce it.
If you're watching it rumbling, I don't want to mispronounce it.
Republicans, I know, right?
I don't want to mess that up.
Republicans target Trump critics' role at DOJ.
What's this about?
Why is this story interesting?
Finally, people in the GOP, whether they're listening to this show or not, or doing their own thing, have figured out that the Biden administration is in the process of appointing people to sensitive law enforcement positions in the government that were deeply involved in the whole collusion-hoax-spygate fiasco.
And these people are probably being appointed to government to make sure that what the government did to Donald Trump by spying on him never, ever, ever sees the light of day.
That Hill article is about the GOP targeting who?
Susan Hennessey.
Oh, if you're a listener to this show, you know who she is.
If you're a new listener, you're like, who the hell is Susan Hennessey?
That's the point.
The Biden administration doesn't want you to know who Susan Hennessey is.
And they're about to appoint her to a very sensitive position in the Department of Justice.
And the GOP is finally like, eh, X and A on that one.
We're not going to do that.
Why?
Who is Susan Hennessey?
And why is it so important that we stop her from ever holding a government position ever?
Well here's a video first.
He has a buddy.
They hang together at this, they call them like the lawfare group.
This guy goes by the name Benjamin Whitties.
Goes by the name because that is his name.
And who's Benjamin Whitties buddies with?
Who's Ben Whitties?
So just to follow, Susan Hennessey, best buds with Ben Whitties.
They wrote a book together.
And Whitties is best buds with who?
Check this out.
Ben Wittes, he is an NBC News legal analyst, editor-in-chief of Lawfare blog, and a personal friend of James Comey.
Mr. Wittes, welcome back.
Thanks for having me.
All right, you've gotten through, I assume, as much of the book as you can.
Yeah, I only got it this afternoon, so I'm sort of making my way through it.
Everybody is scrambling, I understand that.
What's the biggest surprise to you so far?
Well, so, you know, I have been not surprised, actually, by a lot of the tone of it, because, you know, unlike a lot of people, I was kind of talking to Jim through some of this period, and a lot of the tone of this book is, it's fully consistent with the tone of our conversations at the time.
So there you go, there's Ben Whitties, saying, hey, me and Comey, we're like this.
My buddy.
Remember Comey wrote a book?
So who goes out there as a surrogate for Comey's book?
Ben Whitties.
Saying, yeah, the book.
Don't worry, folks.
Nothing but the truth.
You know Comey and his reputation for honesty.
So Ben Whitties is buddies with Susan Hennessey, and Whitties is buddies with Jim Comey, the grand poobah of the Spygate scandal.
Okay.
Oh, it gets better.
Where does Whitties work?
Or where did she work?
Well, let's see.
This is from the Brookings Institution?
Susan Hennessey was a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Oh, so Susan Witte's worked at Brookings.
Fascinating.
Where did Witte's, her buddy, whose buddy's with Comey, who seems to vouch for Comey all the time, where did Witte's work?
Oh, weird.
The Brookings Institution.
Ben Witte's, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Lawfare.
Huh.
Strange.
Wrote a book together.
Know each other.
He knows Comey.
Sure she knows him too.
Worked at Brookings.
Why is that important where they work?
You think I'm just bringing that up because I got nothing to talk about?
Hell no!
Hell to the no!
Who did they work with at Brookings?
Well, here's a paper.
You'll notice the authors on this paper.
One step forward, two steps back.
Scroll down a little bit there.
The realities of a rising China.
You'll see it's Igor Danchenko, Erika Downs, and Fiona Hill.
They were over at Brookings too.
Wrote this paper together.
They were over at Brookings?
What does that have to do with Hennessy getting ready to get this government appointment that the GOP is finally concerned about?
She works at Brookings with Whitties and this Danchenko and Hill wrote papers for Brookings.
They all know each other.
Why is that important?
Because who was Danchenko who wrote this paper for Brookings?
Who was he?
Oh, there we go.
He was a senior research analyst in the foreign policy program at Brookings.
And Fiona Hill is a senior fellow in the foreign policy program as well at the Brookings Institution.
Eh.
Who were these two?
Let's go to this interesting headline from the Daily Yeast.
Barbara Latza Nadal, who's shockingly not embarrassed to work there.
Daily Beast.
Steel dossier source.
Igor Danchenko.
Donald Trump is putting me in danger.
So, just to be clear here.
A source for the Steele dossier peepee hoax dossier, Danchenko, worked at Brookings with Susan Hennessey, who worked with Ben Whitties, who's a friend of Comey's, and they all worked together at Brookings at the same time with Fiona Hill?
And you want to appoint this woman?
To a government position?
Oh, by the way, Fiona Hill worked at Brookings, too.
Who's Fiona Hill?
Remember this article for the New Yorker?
She was an impeachment celebrity!
John Cassidy, New Yorker.
The extraordinary impeachment testimony of Fiona Hill.
Wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I say the balls on these people are extraordinary.
Do you understand the Biden administration doesn't even care anymore?
You got a woman who was a key figure in promoting propaganda for the PP hoax collusion hoax, Susan Hennessey.
They actually want to appoint to a key position in the DOJ that the GOP is finally waking up about, who worked with the people intimately involved in both the production of the Steele dossier, the impeachment hoax, and the guy involved with Jim Comey, who's his buddy, and it's like, hey, his book is just terrific.
Nothing to see here, folks.
No worries at all.
Remember, the Democrats play for keeps.
The Republicans pay for the Washington Post editorial column.
Some of them are finally, if you know what I mean.
Here, one last thing.
I'll get to it more on Monday.
I'm sorry.
I'll talk about it on the radio show hopefully today.
New York Times, UFO reports coming out soon.
I know some of you think it's a distraction.
I totally, completely disagree, because people I know, and I put video on the show about in the Trump administration, who aren't looking to distract you from anything, and are allies of the MAGA movement, have said the exact opposite.
Headline, New York Times, US finds no evidence of alien technology and flying objects.
But, but, but, can't rule it out either.
Folks, if that's not the headline of a lifetime, I don't know what is.
As I said, I'm really almost sorry I had to do this show on a Friday because people take vacation.
Listenership's always down just a little bit on Friday.
Comes back on Monday.
This is probably one of the most important shows we ever did.
We've only covered the three biggest scandals of our lifetime that we can't explain some Unidentified technology.
The Spygate people are trying to get back in government.
And that we may be covering up for the development of a Chinese bioweapon that wiped out millions of people.
Kind of a big Friday show, no?
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