Fauci Blamed Trump For Lab Leak Theory Taking Off, Diary Shows

Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, made public additional pages from Anthony Fauci's government-stored diary on Wednesday, covering December 2021 through May 2022. Daily Caller reports that the entries show Fauci putting responsibility on President Donald Trump for the rise of the idea that COVID-19 began in a Wuhan laboratory, and that Fauci planned to address the matter in a future memoir.

Fauci wrote that Trump had ordered a National Institutes of Health grant to EcoHealth Alliance canceled without evidence, and that conditions imposed on the group were ones it essentially could not satisfy. He also said a request from an official in Francis Collins's office, asking EcoHealth president Peter Daszak for records on Wuhan Institute of Virology work, led to Daszak being vilified and to the lab theory spreading. Fauci cast himself as a target of the resulting conspiracy talk because of his public clash with Trump, and maintained that a natural animal-to-human jump was the very likely cause.

The outlet notes that the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden later debarred Daszak, citing reckless biosafety practices and shifting statements to regulators.

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