RFK Jr. eviscerates Dr. Fauci for trying to start a bioweapons arms race in Chinese lab: 'His bugs escaped'
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of expanding 'gain-of-function' research on bioweapons outside the United States.
Gain-of-function research is focused on making pathogens more transmissible and more deadly for the use of developing bioweapons and developing vaccines.
President Trump's Health and Human Service Secretary claimed in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that despite Richard Nixon's efforts to shut down bioweapons labs in 1969, Fauci effectively restarted programs overseas.
'Anthony Fauci began essentially restarting the arms race, and the bioweapons arms race, and did it under the pretension of developing vaccines, because of the same science that you develop bioweapons and vaccines,' he said.
Trump signed an executive order on Monday banning gain-of-function research.
Kennedy claimed that 'three of his bugs escaped' out of Fauci's labs in the United States in 2014, prompting 300 scientists to rally and sign a letter urging President Barack Obama to end the experiments.
'President Obama declared a moratorium, but instead of shutting down his experiments, he moved them offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab,' Kennedy said, referring to Fauci's indirect funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from the federal government.
The Wuhan lab is widely considered to be the source of the coronavirus pandemic that came from China.
'The CIA, the FBI, the State Department, the Department of Energy - all say that it is most likely that those experiments resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in 2019,' Kennedy said.
The HHS secretary praised Trump for signing a ban on gain-of-function research in the Oval Office on Monday.
Kennedy also weighed in on President Joe Biden's eleventh hour pardon of Fauci just hours before he left the presidency.
'I don't know what was going on in Joe Biden's head, but I think that Anthony Fauci probably asked for that pardon, knowing that he had some liabilities here that were more than reputational,' Kennedy said.
Trump signed his executive order banning funding for gain of function research on Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, as Kennedy stood beside him.
'It's a big deal, could have been that we wouldn't have had the problem we had if we had this done earlier,' Trump said, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.
Kennedy said during the signing event that Fauci's research on viruses and bioweapons created an 'arms race' involving Russia, China, and Iran.
'It's a kind of weapon that always has blowback. There's always bad news and the justification for this kind of weaponry and this kind of research was always that we have to do this to develop vaccines to counter a future pandemic,' he said.
'In all of the history of gain-of-function research we cannot point to a single good thing that's come from it.'
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