In the latest bit of what some have called a cascade of bad news for Dr. Anthony Fauci, United States Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is signaling his intent to “investigate Anthony Fauci should [Republicans] take [control] of the House [in 2022],” according to the Daily Wire.
When asked if this was true, Jordan responded, “Yes, yes, we definitely are.”
In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Jordan said, “If the American people put us back in charge, we are definitely going to do this because we now know without a doubt that Dr. Fauci knew on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 that this thing came from a lab.”
Jordan posted the interview on Twitter:
Joined @MariaBartiromo on Fox News this morning. Give it a watch. https://t.co/yxqQCcezQ6
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 16, 2022
Jordan’s comments follow a recent report indicating Fauci was aware early on that top U.S. and British scientists noted it was highly probable the COVID-19 virus was created and escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Fauci reportedly led in suppressing that information.
“The top scientists in the country were saying it came from a lab,” charged Jordan. “One scientist says we got the notes now from the conference call on February 1st. One scientist says, ‘I don’t see how this can happen in nature, but it would be easy to do in a lab.'”
“And yet, just in a matter of days, they changed their position, write the article that appears in Nature of Medicine Magazine, which then gets cited in the now-famous letter in The Lancet, which became the gospel for the fact that Fauci can go out and tell people it didn’t come from a lab, when in fact they knew it did.”
Jordan added. “Dr. Kristian Anderson. On January 31, 2020, he says this to Dr. Fauci in an email: ‘Virus looks engineered. Virus not consistent with evolutionary theory.’ So, he knew it came from a lab.”
Last week, Reps. Jordan and Comer claimed newly released notes from a late January 2020 phone meeting between Fauci and key doctors and scientists connected with the pandemic prove Fauci knew the virus was artificially created (something he has repeatedly denied).
“It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the WIV and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated,” Jordan asserted.
Fox reported that “other scientists participated in the call,” and at least four followed up by writing a paper titled, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” That paper, sent to Fauci and Collins just three days after the conference call, strangely does not mention the possibility or probability the virus originated in a lab.
Jordan alleges this points to Fauci’s suppression of the facts.
Corroborating evidence comes from a February 2020 correspondence from Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins writes: “I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence-inspiring framework is needed or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”
Jordan asserts that the desire for “international harmony,” not science, drove the COVID-19 narrative.
The Daily Wire reports that David Asher, who led the Trump administration’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told Fox News in May 2021:
“[T]here was almost no evidence that supported a natural, zoonotic… evolution, or source of COVID-19…. The data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source.”
Asher added that what the government found was “not similar to anything that resembled what could occur as natural evolution.”
“In fact, I had biostatisticians at one of our national labs calculate the odds of this evolving in nature,” Asher continued. “And it was like one in 13 million, and then they later revised it to about one in 13 billion. So you know, to say this came out of a zoonotic situation is sort of ridiculous.”
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