Newly Unearthed Email Shows Fauci Knew COVID Looked Unnatural, Knew of Gain-of-Function

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), a member of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, discussed a new email discovered by the committee on Friday’s episode of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” in which Dr. Anthony Fauci mentions that scientists he had spoken with about the COVID virus were concerned, “there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.” And “The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”

McCormick said, “He absolutely knew what was going on. As a matter of fact, several scientists were discussing this and agreeing with each other that it made no sense that it came from a natural selection process.”

He continued by saying it’s strange that Fauci and others have since abandoned the lab leak theory because, in his opinion, the notion has grown more plausible as new data has emerged. But Fauci made the conscious decision “to mislead the public.”