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Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Gain of function research is an unnecessary risk that, by design, creates more dangerous versions of existing viruses. Darpa refused to fund the research.. Instead it was outsourced to Wuhan, funded by the US and approved by Fauci.
Because it seems there is actual fire under the smoke.
I'm not calling him a criminal at all. I'm saying he may have done incriminating things, which have now been pardoned.
Not quite. You cannot assume I am not a criminal. We cannot assume Fauci did nothing incriminating.
I don't need to. Whether I am or not has no relevance.
Fauci has means, motivation, opportunity, conspiracy accused colleagues and a blanket pardon. If the US did fund research that lead to covid, he is right at the top of responsibility with the most to gain from an unlawful cover-up and the protection needed to survive any attack. These are facts, not feelings.
He doesn't. What you have to do is admit the possibility that he may have done something incriminating.