Dr. Anthony Fauci is in full retreat. The man who once dictated pandemic policy from the highest perch of government power, believing he was above the law, is now dodging questions, refusing interviews, and hiding behind lawyers as a damning revelation exposes how he personally helped censor the lab-leak COVID origin theory.
Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, a liberal reporter with a modicum of integrity, just admitted on The Fifth Column podcast that his 2021 Nightline investigation into the Wuhan lab origin of COVID was gutted hours before airtime. Moran and his team had produced a serious examination of evidence pointing to a lab accident, including Chinese military funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Then the script went for “review.” It returned “incomprehensible,” stripped of meaning and loaded with caveats meant to protect those who were likely responsible. When Moran demanded answers, he was told one ominous word: “Fauci.” Lawyers, standards editors, and the nation’s top infectious-disease official had intervened.
Moran was “absolutely livid,” cursing in the booth. The segment that aired was not his work at the fact that his important work was being censored and repressed. While Fauci and his allies dismissed the lab-leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory” and racist, he was quietly ensuring mainstream audiences never heard a coherent case for it.
The pattern continues to this very day. Sen. Ron Johnson’s subcommittee requested a private transcribed interview. Fauci’s attorney refused, claiming it would “impermissibly harass” him for political purposes. This is the same Fauci who once claimed he had “nothing to hide.”
After he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment under oath, that showed the public once and for all that he had something to hide. The walls are closing in. There is now a public mandate to charge Fauci with crimes against humanity. The Trump administration must make the most of this opportunity.
