Fauci Contradicts Mike Pompeo on Coronavirus Origin; Trump Says Fauci Will Testify Before Senate, Blasts House ‘Setup’
By WND. At odds with the statments of President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview he believes the coronavirus did not originate in a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told National Geographic magazine.
“Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” he said.
Fauci said he also does not believe “an alternate theory — that someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.” (Read more from “Fauci Contradicts Mike Pompeo on Coronavirus Origin” HERE)
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Trump Says Fauci Will Testify Before Senate, Blasts House ‘Setup’
By Politico. President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Anthony Fauci would testify before the Senate in the coming days and defended his decision to block America’s top infectious disease expert from appearing before what he called the “Trump haters” in the House.
“The House is a setup. The House is a bunch of Trump haters. They put every Trump hater on the committee. The same old stuff,” the president told reporters outside the White House, adding that Fauci “will be testifying in front of the Senate, and he looks forward to doing that.”
Trump went on to accuse congressional Democrats of hoping for his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic to falter, claiming those lawmakers “want our situation to be unsuccessful, which means death,” and “want us to fail so they can win an election which they’re not going to win.”
The president’s comments corroborated previous reports that Fauci would likely testify before the Republican-controlled Senate sometime next week, as well as House Democrats’ statement last Friday that the White House had halted Fauci from appearing before the House Appropriations Committee this week. (Read more from “Trump Says Fauci Will Testify Before Senate, Blasts House ‘Setup’” HERE)
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