Former leftist (Naomi Wolf) discovers Fauci funded Chinese research to insert genes into bat corona-viruses 8 years before the covid pandemic
(Heavily edited from an article by Naomi Wolf, May 2, 2026)
The "Freedom of Information Act" was designed to make the government accountable to the people, by requiring government officials to release documents bearing on any specific question. But *from the beginning* the corruptocrats--the wannabee dictators, Democrats--knew they could get away with totally ignoring that totally reasonable law--because they knew the Democrat DeepState, leftist judges and leftist U.S. Attorneys wouldn't prosecute 'em.
So a week ago Politico reported that a former aide to Fauci has just been charged with conspiring to evade FOIA records requests related to National Institutes of Health funding of "gain of function" research in a Chinese lab.
The Democrat-fellating, Trump-hating Media and virtually all Democrats went ballistic: "Nonsense! Dis beez *totally* fake newz! A 'right-wing conspiracy story,' created to distract Americans from the fact that the U.S. is losing BADLY in Iran! After all, we've been involved there for NINE WHOLE WEEKS (when this story broke) and Iran hasn't surrendered! It's another Trump eternal war! He's a warmonger! Oh, and he hates 'immigrants' and trannies!"
Utter horseshit, but all Dems believed it.
Former Fauci "advisor" David Morens is accused of concealing emails about risky virus research. He's been indicted on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges for allegedly hiding federal records about research designed to make viruses that were *not* harmful to humans, lethal--like covid-19.
Organizations like Science Magazine and Judicial Watch filed at least eight FOIA requests for records about funding "gain of function research." But the cunning conspirator Morens ensured they didn't get any such emails--even though we already had them, via friendly sources in the NSA (which has copies of everything).
And again, in case you missed it earlier: Morens was a senior advisor to Tony Fauci.
So “two weeks to stop the spread,” eh? Americans were ordered to stay indoors, to not go to funerals or church or weddings. Everyone ORDERED to wear useless masks. Ordered to stay six feet apart. All useless horseshit, used to get Americans accustomed to total control by the Democrat government.
All these draconian rules were ordered by a tiny handful of people, supported by a billion-dollar marketing campaign. And the face of that campaign was Tony Fauci, supported by Deborah Birx.
*What you never heard about* was a group of top virus researchers who noticed that Covid-19--though *almost* a perfect match for a normally-harmless bat virus--differed by four genes, which had clearly, obviously been inserted in the gene sequence of the spike protein.
The four insertions were perfect matches for genes in the HIV virus, and were in the spike protein to make it bind more tightly to cells in the human airway--specifically "ACE-2 receptors." The four inserted genes clearly and unequivocally showed the bat virus had been modified to make it lethal to humans.
In other words, Fauci's top virus experts instantly realized Covid-19 had clearly, obviously NOT evolved naturally. They knew this just days after the first case was confirmed in the U.S.--by comparing the gene sequences of the closest matching "natural" bat virus with Covid-19.
*We have the email from the lead researcher (Kristian G. Andersen, with Scripps Research), telling Fauci this.* But just one week after Andersen told Fauci the Chyna virus did NOT evolve by "natural mutation," *Fauci directed Andersen's group to write a technical paper **saying exactly the opposite.*
Seriously. Literally. So just ONE WEEK after Andersen and his group of Fauci grant recipients told Fauci the virus did NOT evolve naturally, he told 'em to write a paper saying the exact opposite.
If you don't understand how utterly corrupt that was, read it again.
Why would Fauci order Andersen et al to write a paper stating exactly the opposite of their real (and obvious) conclusions? Had Fauci researched the virus's genetic code on his own? Of course not, since if he had, he would have said so. If he had information that would support his position, he would have told Andersen. But he didn't.
Fauci is single-handedly responsible for the lie that the virus *"could not possiblly have been modified in a lab to make it lethal to humans*--when he knew that is exactly what happened, *because he funded the research and surely read the tech papers published by the Wuhan lab.*
Fauci seems to have arranged to have the "debunking paper" (titled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2") published in the March 2020 issue of the prestigious journal "Nature Medicine." The lead author was Kristian Andersen--who you may recall wrote the email telling Fauci the virus was NOT natural. Wow.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Fauci "asked" Andersen to write the debunking paper during the first week in February of 2020. Two weeks after Andersen emailed Fauci that the virus had NOT "evolved naturally," Andersen submitted to Fauci the draft of his group's paper saying the opposite, for Fauci's approval. As Fauci ordered, the paper claimed Covid-19 had evolved by natural mutation--exactly the opposite of what Andersen had told Fauci just two weeks earlier.
The paper was published in Nature on March 20th, just five weeks after Andersen submitted his draft to Fauci--surely a record short time. The conclusion:
>>"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.">>
<<But in the very next sentence we have this:
>>SARS-CoV-2 appears to be optimized for binding to the human receptor ACE2; and the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 has a functional polybasic (furin) cleavage site at the S1–S2 boundary through the *insertion of 12 nucleotides.*>>
Wait..."the insertion of 12 nucleotides"?? And all those supposedly evolved totally naturally?
And even goofier:
>>"*This is strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is NOT the product of purposeful manipulation.*>>
How does the insertion of 12 "nucleotides" in exactly the right places become "strong evidence that [it] is NOT the result of] purposeful manipulation??
The conclusion stated by the authors does not follow. It's utter horseshit--as Anderson surely knew. But he and his co-authors decided they needed to obey Fauci, contradicting his and his group's real opinion. Why?
After Andersen emailed Fauci saying Covid-19 had almost certainly NOT evolved naturally, what research did Andersen and his co-authors, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes and Robert F. Garry do that persuaded them to totally reverse their original conclusion?
None. Literally. They wrote the paper Fauci wanted because *every one of the authors was getting huge, continuing taxpayer-funded grants from Fauci's NIAID.* They were surely concerned that if they refused to do as Fauci directed, the grants almost certainly wouldn't continue to be funded.
But lots of other virologists weren't on the Fauci grant gravy-train, and they wrote letters to journal editors about the vast improbability that the "furin cleavage site"--a site not found in ANY natural bat virus--had just evolved naturally to make the virus more lethal to humans. (And again, that was just one of FOUR inserted genes.)
Fauci and his allies responded NOT by claiming the site wasn't there (since Andersen's own paper admitted its existence), but by calling anyone who suggested the "furin cleavage site" was inserted instead of evolving naturally "conspiracy theorists."
Even respected publications like The Lancet wrote articles supporting Fauci’s claim that any differences between the closest matching bat virus and covid-19 had evolved totally naturally.
What do ya think the odds are of being dealt four pat straight-flushes in the same evening at a poker table in Vegas, eh? The probability of the closest bat virus "naturally evolving" the four inserted genes is millions of times smaller.
Andersen's paper was also the first mention that the jump to humans could have been due to a Wuhan resident eating an infected bat or pangolin from Wuhan's "wet market" where exotic animals were sold for human food.
Those details made the Narrative sound totally believable, and the Mainstream Media repeated them endlessly. Virtually everyone who watched network TV heard Fauci and the media talking heads say covid-19 almost certainly jumped to humans because a Wuhan resident ate an infected bat or pangolin.
It didn't matter that not one American out of a million had ever heard of a pangolin before, because it sounded so exotic that it simply HAD to be true, eh? Cuz it made perfect sense, eh? Eat weird animals, get novel diseases, right?
A few people noted that five years *before* covid emerged, the head researcher at the Wuhan lab, Shi Zhengli--dubbed the "bat lady" for her work with bat viruses--had presented a paper at an international conference on viruses, saying her team had successfully inserted a single gene into a bat coronavirus, and that the virus was still able to infect host cells and reproduce.
This was indeed a breakthrough, and the author of the paper specifically thanked Fauci for supporting her research with a grant from his NIAID.
No one except virologists paid much attention to Shi Zhengli's paper--because this was five years before the Chyna virus started killing millions. Why would anyone make the connection, eh?
Skeptics noted that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had had lots of lab accidents and was just seven miles from the city's "wet market." And that it was suspicious that the Institute had been studying and modifying bat coronaviruses--which clearly matched blood samples from patients (except for the four inserted genes).
Hell of a coincidence, eh?
But the "cartel" of Fauci and the leftist, Trump-hating Mainstream Media had their story and are still sticking with it even after Fauci refused to answer a single question when he was compelled to testify under oath--live and televised.
The few dissenters were quickly labeled "xenophobic," or "conspiracy theorists." Everyone who questioned the Narrative was marginalized and intimidated into silence.
Why was Fauci SO determined to ensure that Americans believed the virus evolved naturally--so much so that he ordered his grant recipients to write a paper contradicting what they'd already deduced? Because he knew he'd funded the Wuhan lab to do the research that modified a harmless coronavirus that made it lethal to millions of people.
One recipient of huge Fauci-directed grants was Dr. Ralph Baric at the U of North Carolina. One of Baric's research assistants was another PhD named Eric Donaldson. Here's his CV:
>> “I'm a research assistant for Dr. Ralph Baric. I'm funded by the NIAID, Dr. Fauci’s agency, to conduct a study looking at the viruses in bats and studying how viruses cross the species barrier to emerge into new populations. In addition, I’m working with Dr. Baric to resurrect [sic] bat coronaviruses to determine the cross-species transmission potential of a variety of novel coronaviruses identified in bats.”>>
<<This was on-line in 2019, before covid hit. And thanks to a recording device called the Wayback Machine, everything that WAS on the Net at one time has been saved--or was, until that trove of information was destroyed in a fire in 2028. Oh wait...
Whoops! Whoopsie! "No one evah warned us dat someone could save duh stuff we posted! An' since we weren't warned, showing ouah old posts is, like, TOTALLY unfair! We deny we evah sed any of dat stuff! An' we gon' find a frenly judge who'll ORDER dat yew caint use any of dis in court! Nope nope nope! Cuz...reasons!"
Research assistant Donaldson was also looking at how to create vaccines for the bat virus they were trying to modify--again this was in 2019, months before the Chyna virus escaped. This was the blueprint, the plan--explained by one of Baric's researchers a year before covid was unleashed.
All this information has been available for years. But understandably, you had no idea where to look for it. And the Mainstream Media totally refused to ask a *singe question* that would have exposed Fauci's utter bullshit.
This puts the lie to Fauci’s claims that he and his agency did not fund gain-of-function research, which dates back to 2009.
All the elements of the industry that became the COVID virus, the COVID test, and the COVID vaccine, are all in embryonic form in this CV dating back to 2009, all funded by Fauci's NIAID using your tax dollars.
And now things get even hotter.
Baric and Donaldson were studying "cross-species transmission" of viruses--specifically bat coronaviruses. What made 'em think a bat coronavirus might make the jump to humans, eh?
“Cross-Species Emergence of Coronaviruses from Bats” is the name of one grant from Fauci, before covid was unleashed. The resulting research showed how to make a harmless bat virus fatal to humans. The Wuhan Institute just got there first.
2008: Authors Dr. Eric Donaldson and Dr. Ralph Baric: “Synthetic reconstruction of an infectious bat SARS-like coronavirus."
So a dozen years before Covid was unleashed, they were looking at the spike protein and how it could be changed. See, what made covid-19 lethal to humans were changes made to the spike protein to make the virus better able to "bind" to specific cells in the human airway called "ACE-2 receptors."
Fauci knew for over a decade that Baric and Donaldson were modifying bat coronaviruses to see how they could cross over from animals to humans; and that they had identified the spike protein as the key to lethality in humans.
“Mechanisms of zoonotic severe acute respiratory syndrome” — that means you can’t breathe, your lungs are shutting down, after being infected with a virus that somehow managed to become lethal to humans. Hell of a coincidence, eh?
“Coronavirus host range expansion in human airway epithelium.” So they’re experimenting on how animal-based coronaviruses affect cells in the human airway.
Hell of a coincidence, eh?
And here we have coronavirus vaccine development way back in 2005--a full 15 years before the plandemic hit. So what you’re seeing there is that the virus modification experiments and studies of *vaccines* against exactly this virus were going on exactly at the same time.
You roll out the virus, and you’ve already got the vaccine. They’re the same researchers.
So where is Dr Eric Donaldson now? Why hasn't he been subpoenaed to testify before congress?
According to LinkedIn, for the last 12 years he's been at the FDA, working on virology.
And would ya look at this! The FDA reviewed remdesivir--THE treatment pushed by Fauci four times in a single press conference in May of 2020, standing beside Trump and Birx. Review to get "Emergency Use Authorization" for remdesivir, May 2020 lists the "Clinical Virology Reviewer" reviewer: “Eric F. Donaldson, Ph.D.”
Hell of a coincidence. And even more amazing that no FBI agents have ever showed up at his house with recorders.
Then there's a *second* FDA remdesivir review, on Sept. 17, 2020. “Reviewer: Eric F. Donaldson, Ph.D.”
What is Donaldson now doing at the FDA? Could congress ask him about these things, under oath? Hahahahaha! Just kidding! All Democrats in congress love the power they seized through the plandemic scam, and will never seriously investigate the con artists who unleashed the Chyna virus on the world.
