Biden official under probe for funding China's Wuhan lab tied to Covid-19, confirms Tulsi Gabbard

US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office is joining hands with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the “Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, Gabbard confirmed on Thursday that she has created a special team to investigate Dr Anthony Fauci for perjury.

Gabbard and other top officials in the US President Donald Trump’s administration have often called out Fauci’s role in funding Wuhan gain-of-function research tied to COVID-19. In the podcast, Gabbard also mentioned that she wants to end so-called gain-of-function research in which scientists alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly so they can study them.

Tulsi Gabbard is getting ready to drop the hammer on Fauci and worldwide gain of function research including in the Ukraine !!!

Drilling down on the specific connection between the EcoHealth Alliance involvement and the Wuhan leak.

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“I created a kind of special teams group, the Directors Initiative Group, that is focused on investigating a number of the President’s top priorities and the things that the American people really deserve and want to know the truth about. The origin of COVID-19 is one of them. So they’re actively working on that. A lot of the work that’s been done is on Covid.gov,” Gabbard said in Kelly’s podcast.

Gabbard remains adamant to prove that COVID came from a lab

Like several officials in the Trump administration, Gabbard believes that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, rather than the deadly virus spreading from animals to humans, as many virologists have claimed.

Last month, the Trump administration launched a web page making the case that the pandemic originated from a Chinese lab. The website also accused former NIH official Anthony Fauci of covering up the plot. In the podcast, Gabbard pointed to NIH grants that went to the research lab in Wuhan to solidify her case.

“In the case of the Wuhan lab, as well as many other bio labs around the world, it was actually US-funded, and leads to this dangerous kind of research that in many examples has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis,” Gabbard said.

Gabbard’s stance gained momentum after the CIA revealed earlier this year that COVID-19 was more likely to have originated in a lab. It also said that it had “low confidence” in that assessment and would continue to evaluate any new evidence. Two years ago, the FBI also favoured the lab leak theory with moderate confidence.

However, during the Biden administration, the National Intelligence Council favoured the natural origin theory, which Gabbard has already rejected. “In order to prevent another Covid-like pandemic or another major health incident that could affect us in the world, we have to end this gain-of-function research,” she said.

With inputs from agencies.