Robert Redfield, CDC Director Under Trump, Says Fauci Shut Down Debate On COVID Origins

Now, why would Fauci want to shut down scientific debate among scientists?

Trump’s CDC director says Fauci shut down debate on Covid’s origin

Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins.

The accusation came during a politically charged hearing Wednesday of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and stoked Republican claims that Fauci in early 2020 promoted the view that an infected animal spread the virus to humans to divert attention from research the U.S. sponsored at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“It was told to me that they wanted a single narrative and then I obviously had a different point of view,” Redfield told representatives.

Redfield said Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time, and Collins left him out because Redfield suspected the coronavirus had leaked from the Chinese lab.

This made Fauci upset

Fauci, who was not at the hearing, dismissed Redfield’s accusation as “completely untrue.”

“No one excluded anyone,” he told POLITICO after the hearing.

“And the idea of saying that he was not wanted there because he had a different opinion … there were several people on the call who had the opinion that it might have been an engineered virus,” said Fauci, who retired from his government post at the end of last year.

Well, if that’s the case (Fauci also went on with Neil Cavuto), Fauci would have no problem testifying under oath to Congress about it, right? James Comer (R-Ky), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, should invite Fauci to come testify. And, if he doesn’t want to, subpoena him.

Of course, Democrats were doing their best to protect Fauci, who really did more damage to trusting health institutes that he helped, and were wondering why it even matters where it came from. They just want to move on so people forget about their COVID authoritarianism.

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