Fauci’s Diaries Are A Media Scandal — That’s Why The Media Aren’t Reporting On Them Fairly
The media's generous treatment of Fauci allows them to avoid confronting what the diary reveals about the press itself.The media's generous treatment of Fauci allows them to avoid confronting what the diary reveals about the press itself.Fauci Toadies Privately Called Lab Leak Theory ‘Highly Likely’ While Publicly Shutting It Down
The greatest threat to public trust comes when powerful people and institutions use their authority to suppress the truth.Tulsi Gabbard pulls the curtain on Fauci's COVID narrative on her final day in office
Tulsi Gabbard notified President Donald Trump late last month that she was resigning as director of national intelligence.
In her final days in the role, Gabbard not only proved that those Ukraine hawks who previously smeared her as "treasonous" and "traitorous" were dead wrong in their denial of the existence and United States' funding of "more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine," but created a colossal headache for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
'It’s time the American people learn the real story.'
On Thursday, Gabbard declassified and published a trove of never-before-seen communications and documents that she claimed expose "how Dr. Fauci provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus' lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024."
Besides highlighting whistleblower allegations of retaliation against intelligence analysts who challenged Fauci's zoonotic origin conclusions, the ODNI noted in its release that the declassified documents also show that Fauci's close relationships with elements of the intelligence community "enabled him to assume three key roles during the pandemic that shielded him from scrutiny as he wielded outsized influence."
Those roles, according to the ODNI, related to research funding, narrative curation, and narrative control:
- "Fauci funded risky coronavirus research linked to big pharma and the pursuit of 'universal vaccines' worth trillions of dollars";
- "Fauci was the behind-the-scenes adviser who, with his hand-picked experts, pushed the IC to endorse a natural, animal origin to hide his dangerous research"; and
- "Fauci became the nation’s pandemic 'pundit' and publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship."
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Federal documents previously established that the NIAID under Fauci and United States Agency for International Development funded an EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor's experiments on coronaviruses to the tune of $41 million.
The subcontractor listed as an investigator on the grants was Ben Hu — an individual whom Blaze News previously noted was the Wuhan Institute of Virology's lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses and among the pandemic's "patients zero," having been one of the three lab researchers first infected with apparent COVID-19 in November 2019.
Fauci, whose agency funded experiments on coronaviruses at the epicenter of the pandemic, publicly pushed the theory that the virus had instead resulted from a trans-species jump from an animal to a human and promoted a controversial paper — "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — which a 2024 congressional report suggested he had originally "prompted" to discredit the lab-leak theory.
The statute of limitations on charging Fauci over alleged false testimony before Congress in 2021 about gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology apparently expired last month. He also has a blanket pardon from former President Joe Biden.
Fauci could not immediately be reached for comment. The Justice Department did not respond by deadline.
"The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world. After years of lies, censorship, and cover-ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability," Gabbard said in a statement.
"The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook: Politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected president by restricting his access to vital facts needed to keep the country safe," continued the departing DNI. "It’s time the American people learn the real story."
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), who has referred Fauci to the Justice Department for criminal charges on multiple occasions, was among the many who welcomed the documents' release. He thanked Gabbard "for her leadership and service in pursuing the truth, even when it wasn't politically convenient."
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NIH scrubs Biden-era COVID origin narrative from website following Blaze News reporting
The National Institutes of Health told Blaze News on Friday that it updated its website to remove claims from the previous administration that dismissed the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
'The NIH has removed these factually incorrect positions from the last administration.'
As of Thursday, an NIH webpage stated:
Unfortunately, because the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been identified, misleading and false allegations have been made about NIAID-supported research on naturally occurring bat coronaviruses. Specifically, these allegations have targeted research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, funded through a subaward from NIAID grantee EcoHealth Alliance. The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied through this subaward were significantly, genetically different from SARS-CoV-2 and, therefore, could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blaze News contacted the NIH, inquiring whether it was aware of the webpage — which was last reviewed in March 2022 — and if it had plans to update its website to remove statements that the lab leak theory was a hoax.
The NIH responded on Friday, stating that it had recently updated the website.
Department of Health and Human Services communications director Andrew Nixon stated, "The Biden era NIH position on origin of the COVID pandemic — that the lab leak theory is a 'conspiracy theory' — is out of line with the considerable scientific and forensic evidence to the contrary. The NIH has removed these factually incorrect positions from the last administration."
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Blaze News confirmed that as of Friday afternoon, the NIH had taken down the webpage. It now reads, "You are not authorized to access this page."
Nixon added that the "true origin" of the virus could be found on the White House's website, which states that COVID-19 "possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature" and that the data supports that cases stemmed from "a single introduction into humans." The website further notes the Wuhan lab's "history of conducting gain-of-function research ... at inadequate biosafety levels."
The Trump administration's National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya was one of the prominent voices during the COVID era insisting that there was a cover-up regarding the origins of the virus.
Bhattacharya told Politico in May that he is "convinced" the research experiments in Wuhan, China, "led to this pandemic through a lab leak."
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COVID lab leak denial lingers on NIH’s website: 'Misleading and false'
Allegations that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak were strongly and swiftly denied by the former Biden administration and some prominent health officials, despite dissenting opinions within the medical field, including from Jay Bhattacharya, who now serves as President Donald Trump's National Institutes of Health director.
'I'm convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan.'
A page on the NIH's website, last reviewed by the agency on March 16, 2022, has not yet been updated by the new administration, still claiming that the leak theory is "misleading and false."
The NIH webpage reads:
Unfortunately, because the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been identified, misleading and false allegations have been made about NIAID-supported research on naturally occurring bat coronaviruses. Specifically, these allegations have targeted research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, funded through a subaward from NIAID grantee EcoHealth Alliance. The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied through this subaward were significantly, genetically different from SARS-CoV-2 and, therefore, could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bhattacharya was one of the voices amid the COVID-era insisting that there was a cover-up of the virus' origins.
In a May interview with Politico, Bhattacharya stated that he believes the U.S. should do more to reveal the origins of the virus, but noted that China has not been cooperating with those investigations.
"There's enough evidence that I've seen from the outside that suggests that there was at the very least a cover-up of dangerous experiments that were done in China with — by the way — the help of the U.S. and also Germany and the U.K.," Bhattacharya told the news outlet.
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He referred to the experiments as "a very, very dangerous kind of utopian research agenda."
"I'm convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan," Bhattacharya continued. "But that was a global effort."
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He called it "absolutely striking" that then-Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and other leaders would invest so much effort into suppressing the theory and "denigrating scientists who very legitimately raised this possibility."
Blaze News contacted the NIH to determine whether it is aware of the webpage dismissing lab leak claims and if it plans to update its website. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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NIH staffers storm out as Bhattacharya delivers reality bombshell about COVID origin
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya hosted his first staff town hall on Monday.
The event, held on the NIH's main campus in Bethesda, Maryland, was packed with nearly 500 attendees and even more individuals tuning in online to watch Bhattacharya answer some of the 1,200 submitted questions, Science reported.
'If it's true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, and if you look at polls of the American people, that's what most people believe.'
Yet when Bhattacharya attempted to answer a question about the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak, many staffers fled the room in apparent protest.
Ahead of his response, Bhattacharya noted that some of those attending the event would likely disagree with his perspective.
"It's possible that the pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings. And it's also possible that the NIH partly sponsored that research," Bhattacharya told the crowd.
He appeared to pause as dozens of NIH staffers stood up and left the room.
"It's nice to have free speech. You're welcome, you guys," he said, apparently addressing the protesters.
Some attendees who remained responded with applause.
Bhattacharya continued, "If it's true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, and if you look at polls of the American people, that's what most people believe. And I've looked at the scientific evidence I believe in."
"What we have to do is make sure that we do not engage in research that's posing any risk to any human populations," he added.
Anything else?
A Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's minority staff report drafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that President Donald Trump's administration had "effectively" slashed the NIH's budget by $2.7 billion in the first three months of the year.
"Trump's war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer," Sanders said. "The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires."
The Department of Health and Human Services has labeled Sanders' claims as "unequivocally false."
"The report released by his office today is a politically motivated distortion that undermines the thousands of dedicated public health professionals across HHS, who remain steadfast in their commitment to delivering results for the American people," HHS stated.
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White House endorses COVID lab leak theory, but will anyone be held accountable?
On April 18, the White House publicly endorsed the COVID lab leak theory. The government’s official COVID website was also redirected to a new page titled “Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19,” which contends that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and was leaked by accident.
The revamped site criticizes Anthony Fauci, David Morens, Andrew Cuomo, the WHO, EcoHealth Alliance, and the Biden administration, among others, for actively promoting false information and covering up the truth.
It cites five points to support the lab leak claim:
1. “The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.”
2. “Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”
3. “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”
4. “Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”
5. “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”
After years of the Biden administration and his loyal media allies promoting a lie, it’s refreshing to see the government proclaim the truth.
But while Glenn Beck sees the website as “an amazing thing,” the information on it isn’t exactly news.
“Most of this stuff we had within six or eight months of the actual outbreak,” he says.
The real question is: “Who’s going to jail over this?”
The other question is: Why doesn’t the legacy media seem interested in correcting the narrative?
“Millions of people died here. You'd think that it would be something [the media] would focus on and draw a lot of attention to and continue to kind of beat the drum until someone was held responsible, and they don't seem to have any interest in that,” says co-host Stu Burguiere, noting that most of these outlets “have run an op-ed” about the lab leak theory and called it good.
“If we make a mistake, we correct it because it drives us crazy that we made the mistake, and I don’t want anybody to believe that I’m standing behind something that is wrong and a lie,” says Glenn.
The legacy media clearly doesn’t have the same convictions.
“They knowingly lied” about COVID, Joe Biden’s cognitive state, and Russiagate, and yet, “There’s no consequence.”
“They’re not going to lose any advertisers. The New York Times hasn't lost any real money because of this. Their people just continue to watch,” says Glenn.
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'An outrage': Biden admin hid report of US service members getting sick at Wuhan military games in October 2019
Nearly 10,000 athletes from over 109 countries traveled to Wuhan, China, to compete in the 7th Military World Games from October 18 to October 28, 2019.
Participants from various nations, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Luxembourg, reported taking ill with COVID-like symptoms at or after the games — a damning coincidence granted the games took place near the suspected origin of the virus, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where dangerous experiments were long performed with poor safety protocols on coronaviruses.
The Biden administration apparently sat on a December 2022 report indicating that some of the 263 members of the U.S. delegation who attended the games may have also caught COVID-19 or something just like it months before the supposed zoonotic leap at a wet market.
By concealing the document, the administration effectively left the public with then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby's 2021 assertion to the Washington Post that there was no knowledge of American infections at the games and no evidence to indicate U.S. military personnel were infected before travel restrictions were implemented in early 2020.
The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act included a requirement that former President Joe Biden's then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin submit to congressional lawmakers a report on the military games detailing:
- the number of American athletes and staff "who attended the 2019 World Military Games and became ill with COVID-19-like symptoms during or shortly after their return to the United States";
- the results of any blood testing done on American participants;
- the number of home station Pentagon facilities of participating members that experienced outbreaks in early 2020; and
- whether the Pentagon discussed the illnesses surrounding the games with other militaries.
In addition to disclosing such information to the House and Senate armed services committees, the NDAA required that the Biden administration make the report publicly available.
'It is an outrage that the Biden White House and the 118th Congress Senate and House Armed Services Committees did not publicly release this information.'
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Biden administration refrained from releasing the report to the public, and it wasn't until March 2025 when the Trump administration uploaded it to the Defense Department website that the document became widely accessible.
Contrary to Kirby's suggestion that there was no knowledge or evidence of infection, the Pentagon concluded that of the 263 total American participants in the game — of whom 2019 were military personnel — seven service members "exhibited COVID-19-like signs and/or symptoms during the timeframe of October 18, 2019, through January 21, 2020."
Members of the U.S. delegation to the games were not tested for COVID-19 or antibodies "as testing was not available at this early stage of the pandemic," so there is apparently no definitive proof these were indeed COVID-19 infections.
The report indicated the symptoms could have been caused by other respiratory infections and that all seven infected service members' symptoms resolved within six days.
The report noted further that there was "no statistically significant difference in COVID-19-like symptoms cases at installations with participating athletes when compared to installations without them."
Molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University told the Free Beacon, "It is an outrage that the Biden White House and the 118th Congress Senate and House Armed Services Committees did not publicly release this information when it became available in 2022, but, instead, withheld this information for the duration of their terms."
"This new information strengthens U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that COVID-19 was circulating in Wuhan in October-November 2019, U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that researchers working with genetically enhanced SARS viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology contracted COVID-19 in October-November 2019, and phylogenomic data indicating that the virus that causes COVID-19 entered humans in July-November 2019," added Ebright.
Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-Iowa) told the Free Beacon that the report helped put a nail in the coffin of the theory that the virus originated in a Wuhan wet market in December 2019.
"Taxpayers deserve to know the truth about COVID-19 origins, but the Biden administration concealed this information from the American people for years," said Ernst. "This report should have been made public immediately and not restricted to Washington insiders. If Americans visiting Wuhan were potentially infected with the COVID-19 virus in October 2019, those claiming the pandemic began in a wet market just two months later would be completely off base."
Ahead of the games — as early as August 2019 — hospitals in the region were apparently overwhelmed with an unseasonably high number of patients, while regional queries for the terms "diarrhea" and "cough" spiked on China's equivalent of Google.
An American researcher and several European researchers noted their suspicions in a September 2022 study that the Wuhan games "may have contributed to the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2" but indicated that "no official information has been made available despite reports that some foreign participants experienced Covid-19-compatible symptoms that were attributed to influenza or gastroenteritis."
French pentathlete Elodie Clouvel, Luxembourg swimmer Julien Henx, German volleyball player Jacqueline Brock, and Italian fencer Matteo Tagliariol also indicated they and/or members of their team got sick while in Wuhan.
Brock indicated in early 2020 that "after a few days, some athletes from my team got ill, I got sick in the last two days."
"I have never felt so sick," continued Brock. "Either it was a very bad cold or COVID-19."
Tagliariol told Corriere della Sera, "When we arrived in Wuhan, almost all of us got sick. But the worst was returning home. After a week I had a very high fever, I felt like I couldn't breathe."
Canadian military sources told the Financial Post in 2021 that one service member reported feeling "very sick 12 days after we arrived, with fever, chills, vomiting, insomnia."
Scores of Canadian athletes were apparently placed in isolation on their 12-hour flight home at the end of October. The athletes' symptoms included coughing and diarrhea.
The Canadian Department of National Defense told Blaze News last year that "some athletes experienced gastrointestinal symptoms on the flight to Wuhan for the Military World Games and during the return flight home to Canada."
"Their symptoms and illness course of one to three days were consistent with gastrointestinal illness, or a 'stomach flu,' and were managed as such," said a spokeswoman for the National Defense Department.
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