Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on The Ingraham Angle, and alleged that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a central role in moving dangerous “gain-of-function” virus research offshore to places like Wuhan.
Just over five years after the country locked down because of COVID, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that significantly restricts and, in many cases, ends federal funding for “gain-of-function” research experiments that alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or dangerous.
The order targets domestic and foreign research, focusing on countries of concern such as China and Iran, where U.S. officials believe oversight is insufficient (like…China).
For over a decade, scientists have debated the risks and benefits of so-called “gain of function” research. They’ve long tinkered with viruses and bacteria to endow them with new functions like producing insulin for people with diabetes. Some researchers have modified bird flu viruses in order to figure out which mutations might be crucial for producing pandemic strains that could spread among people.
Although such experiments may have benefits, critics have maintained that the risk of an accidentally created pandemic was not worth taking. In 2014, all federal funding was halted on experiments that could make certain viruses more dangerous. The first Trump administration lifted that ban in 2017 and instituted a new procedure to review possibly dangerous research.
The debate over gain of function research sharpened during the pandemic. Mr. Trump and other elected officials have linked such research to the origin of Covid, claiming that Chinese researchers produced the coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan.
…The new policy would end support for gain of function research that was deemed dangerous and was conducted in countries of concern, including China. It would also impose new constraints on research within the United States. The executive order also calls for the government to develop a strategy to oversee potentially dangerous research carried out without federal funds within the United States.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Security Advisor were directed to implement the policy with funding agencies within the next 4 months. Furthermore, researchers violating the policy could face a five-year cutoff from federal life-sciences grants.
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on The Ingraham Angle, where Kennedy alleges that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a central role in moving dangerous “gain-of-function” virus research offshore, specifically to the Wuhan lab in China, after a U.S. moratorium in 2014.
Kennedy claims this research, banned initially by President Nixon in 1969, was revived post-9/11 under the pretext of vaccine development, and that several U.S. agencies now believe these experiments likely led to the COVID pandemic. He praised President Trump’s executive order banning federal funding for such research and criticized the Biden administration for expanding HHS bureaucracy, while asserting that his reforms are cutting waste without harming essential health programs.
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Perhaps the most damning part in this report for Fauci was RFK Jr. noting there were three separate pathogen releases in 2014. The year is intriguing and may explain why Fauci’s pardon from Biden goes back 11 years.
Finally, someone connects the dots.
“In 2014, after 3 of Fauci’s bugs escaped, 300 scientists asked Obama to shut him down. Obama declared a moratorium—but Fauci moved the experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab. Now our own government—CIA, FBI, State, DOE—all say those… pic.twitter.com/vXIZe3n50b
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 6, 2025
The releases are as follows:
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) at the CDC: In June 2014, up to 75 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria. A biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab failed to properly inactivate anthrax samples before transferring them to lower-security labs, where staff handled them without adequate protective equipment because they believed the bacteria were dead.
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1): In March 2014, a CDC laboratory accidentally shipped a sample of H9N2 avian influenza virus that was contaminated with the highly dangerous H5N1 strain to a USDA poultry lab. The error was discovered when the USDA tested the sample, but CDC leadership was not notified until months later.
Smallpox (Variola virus): In July 2014, six vials labeled as smallpox (Variola) dating back to the 1950s were discovered in a storage room at an FDA lab on the NIH campus. Two vials contained live virus. These forgotten samples raised concerns about the inventory and security of dangerous pathogens.
All of this is troubling. We are probably lucky that the one bug that did escape and became a pandemic caused nothing more than a bad cold in most healthy people who did not have comorbidities or were obese. It could have been far worse.
RFK, Jr. Destroys What’s Left of the Fauci “legacy” https://t.co/qIzQAclA6n
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 6, 2025
However, Fauci is not the only villain in this saga. Dr. Deborah Birx and all the other “experts” who smothered information about gain-of-function research, pressed the ‘natural origin’ theory of COVID, and pushed the destructive lockdown policies on this nation must also be held accountable for their actions.
Let’s hope the research community and policymakers have learned some valuable lessons. The next “accidental release” could be worse.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/trump-signs-eo-restricting-gain-of-function-research-that-enhances-pathogens/
