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Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination roughly a hundred times before a Senate committee this week rather than answer why American money funded coronavirus research in Wuhan. His own diaries show why.

On February 1, 2020, he convened a call with eleven of the world's leading virologists. By his own written account, nine of the twelve on that call believed the key mutation was intentionally introduced — because a researcher in Wuhan had spent years engineering bat coronavirus spike proteins to bind to human cells, and the outbreak began in Wuhan.

He wrote that they could not let it go. Eight days later, he went on a podcast and told the public the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory without any scientific basis.

He knew. He said the opposite. In public, for years, while the consequences landed on you.

What the documents show, in order:

2014 — The Department of Health and Human Services awards $3.7 million to EcoHealth Alliance for bat coronavirus research, with a portion routed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Four months later, the federal government freezes that category of research.
2017 — Outgoing White House guidance narrows the definition of a dangerous pathogen just enough for the work to continue.
Feb 1, 2020 — Nine of twelve virologists on his call consider “deliberate insertion” of the key mutation to be possible. He writes it down.
Feb 9, 2020 — He calls the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory with no scientific basis.
April 2020 — He tells a White House briefing the mutations are consistent with natural evolution, citing a paper whose authors say he prompted them to write it. He doesn't mention the contact.
May 2020 — NIH tells the FBI in writing that the chimeric viruses built under that grant don't count as gain-of-function.
Sept 2021 — The CDC's own advisory committee votes against boosters for workers with occupational exposure. He texts the director, begs her to call, pleads with her to overrule her scientists, and warns she'll be "forever branded as someone with no leadership capabilities at all." She overrules them. New York ties its healthcare mandate directly to that recommendation.

And here is what that produced in the real world:

Schoolchildren locked out of classrooms for two years, with the damage falling hardest on the poorest kids, who are still behind.
Nurses and firefighters — the same people called heroes in 2020 — fired in 2021 for declining a booster shot the CDC's own experts had voted against recommending.
Grandparents who died alone, with a nurse holding a phone, because a rule said no one could be in the room.
Small businesses shuttered while the big chains stayed open.
Churches closed and funerals capped, while only “approved gatherings” went ahead.
A generation of teenagers handed an anxiety and depression crisis we are nowhere near finished paying for.
And in millions of homes, a family split down the middle, because one person asked a question out loud that turned out to be correct.

While Americans were told that asking about a coronavirus lab in a coronavirus outbreak city made them a crank, our largest newsrooms built a shrine to Fauci: bobbleheads, votive candles, magazine features calling him a heartthrob, a celebrity serenade for his eightieth birthday, Brad Pitt playing him on Saturday Night Live.

And by his own account, he loved every minute of it. While families were burying grandparents over video calls, Fauci was writing in his diary that he had become "the most famous and talked about person in the country." Two weeks later: "Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me." He even lobbied his own NIH colleagues to nominate him for a $1 million prize, which he collected in 2021.

Four years, and not one hard question, because a hard question would have helped the wrong team.

Now the diaries are public. Watch how the media institutions handle them:

Mother Jones — read them and announced there's no smoking gun.
NPR — worried the Senate hearings might discourage the next generation from public service.
CNN — framed the questioning as an assault on science itself.
CBS — its medical correspondent said she'd read every page, and the real takeaway was that anyone would take a selfie with a celebrity.
The New York Times — found only a well-intentioned man wrestling with fast-moving science.

They built him. Now they're writing his acquittal. The machine protecting itself and Anthony Fauci is still running, has not apologized, and it has not changed one thing about how it works.

This story shows everything we're up against. The government lied about where the virus came from and how dangerous it really was. The media buried the questions and built a shrine to the man behind it. And academia lent its credibility to the cover, because the grants and the prestige all flowed one way. Three institutions that are supposed to check each other, all repeating the same lie at the same time.

That is how a free country actually loses its freedom. Not in one dramatic moment, but one closed debate at a time.

We were on the front lines of this one. We were exposing Fauci and pushing the lab leak when it mattered most, in those first chaotic months, and it was some of the most important work we did in our early days. And we got censored for it.

But in the end, we were right, and the truth won. As long as readers keep it funded, independent media will keep winning.

We got into this to fight back and to hand the next generation an America where the truth still has somewhere to live. We were writing about Wuhan and gain-of-function when doing it got you throttled because the truth is worth it.

And today, as the country gets swamped with radical left-wing politicians bankrolled by billionaires who hate it, we will stand up and fight them too.

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