Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases, provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain of function research

on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed

as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.

Now, in support of President Trump's maximum transparency mandate, today on my final day as Director of National Intelligence,

I'm releasing never-before-seen communications and documents that expose exactly how Fauci worked with politicized

career leadership in the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions, the

virus's lab leak origins, and his role in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable

harm and countless lost lives. Now, these documents expose Fauci's direct role in

influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19 and how Fauci lied to Congress in

24 when under oath he denied knowledge of or participation

in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research.

We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers who reported

retaliation for challenging the intelligence community's manipulation of intelligence on the virus's origins,

once again, revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth.

Dr. Fauci's close relationships with the intelligence community enabled him to assume three key roles that shield him from scrutiny.

First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain of function coronavirus research linked to Big Pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines worth trillions of dollars.

Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor

who, alongside his handpicked so-called experts,

pushed the intelligence community to endorse

a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain of function

research that he funded using taxpayer dollars,

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