April 28, 2026

"These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic."

Said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, quoted in "Anthony Fauci adviser indicted by DOJ on charges of concealing COVID records" (NY Post).

96 comments:

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Good they also named Dazcak co-conspirator. He's a creep.

imTay said...

Not to worry, Fauci was pardoned by the auto-pen.

Mr. D said...

Will this guy take one for the team? Getcha popcorn.

bagoh20 said...

Right wing conspiracy theory, but that idiot Trump is manipulating the government into producing evidence where there was none. He's really dumb and completely senile, but controls everything, even viruses and bullet trajectories. He must be stopped.

Dave Begley said...

This guy's defense will be that Fauci made him do it.

Original Mike said...

When are they going to arrest Daszak?

Original Mike said...

These guys created a global pandemic that killed millions. To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.

Quayle said...

Compliance with law is for little people. Really, really little people.

Funny me. I thought that when the government hired and paid a FOIA expert, that person was supposed to coach everyone on how to comply with FOIA, not how to avoid FOIA.

John henry said...

Dave Begley said...

This guy's defense will be that Fauci made him do it.

A/K/A the Just following orders Nuremburg defense.

Does that work these days?

And if he does use it, doesn't he have to testify who gave the orders? Fauci?

Then haul Fauci in and see if the pardon is valid.

John Henry

Mr. D said...

These guys created a global pandemic that killed millions. To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.

Ask Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.

Kai Akker said...

--- also notes two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].”

Information in the indictment indicates the co-conspirators are Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of Manhattan-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, ... ---

Finally some decent news. And Daszak too -- now we are getting somewhere. Somewhere in the general vicinity of the truth. Let's hope we actually arrive at it. So many still in denial of what that pandemic was for and who benefitted--as well as all those who were punished to keep it and the "vaccine" grift going.

Howard said...
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Howard said...

The virus killed nobody. The clot shot did. Shouldn't they indict the author of Operation Warp Speed whom expressly encouraged cutting corners to get an experiment drug forced into people against their will???

tim maguire said...

If they're not already investigating who was actually wielding the auto-pen, now would be a good time. As well as challenging the auto-pen in court

Vance said...

The virus killed lots of people.... the same kind of people that respiratory viruses normally kill. Like old people, people with bad lungs, etc. And then the Fauci vaccine started killing healthy people. But Covid killed lots of people.... just like Democrats loved. Ask Democrat Cuomo who tried to kill as many old people as possible by sticking covid infected people into their rest homes. Democrats to this day still celebrate that, don't they Howard. I've never ever heard a single leftist condemn any of the Democrat governors who deliberately tried to use Covid to kill off as many people on the state welfare rolls.

RCOCEAN II said...

Trump tossing his base some red meat.

RCOCEAN II said...

People hate Fauci but ignore everyone else at CDC involved. He was just the front man. He also was not responsible for crimes that killed thousands in Nursing homes in NY, NJ, and elsewhere. Or locked down some states like California or Illinois way longer than was neccessary.

Ampersand said...

Per Howard: "The virus killed nobody. The clot shot did"

The virus killed plenty of people, especially the immune compromised.
The ineptitude of the response to the virus can be fairly attributed, in part, to the desire of public health officials to obfuscate the origins of covid, and their role in gain of function research.

Kai Akker said...

UNVaccinated and DAMN GLAD OF IT. Got Covid in early 2021 from a stupid visitor to our house who I realized was very sick after an hour of his severe coughing. Why did it take an hour? It didn't; it was a relative. And, in the end, something of a favor since my wife and I both ended up with natural immunities.

The shunning, punishment, job losses and career damage that people who simply tried to tell the truth about both the Chinese flu and the dangerous mRNA therapies had to suffer is one of the most outstandingly anti-American events in our history. It far outweighs McCarthyism and the blacklist; that doesn't even make the scale budge IMO.

All part and parcel of Democrat-originated wokeness and the hubris of the Bill Gates crowd, may he rot in hell.

rehajm said...

How did they not autopen this guy. Second derivative dude who knows things…

Lazarus said...

Fauci's role in promoting gain of function research and his lying about it to Congress makes him particularly culpable. Also, others involved in the mess didn't have as clear an idea of what the virus and the vaccine could and could do. Fauci knew and deceived. He was an outright lying weasel. The others could plead ignorance and incompetence.

Original Mike said...

"The virus killed nobody."

That's absurd.

Mason G said...

"He was an outright lying weasel."

Probably why he's a hero to the left.

wendybar said...

GOOD!! It's time for all the corrupt left to go to prison where they belong.

Peachy said...

I know people who were harmed by the forced JAB.
And still the loyalist cultists follow the corrupt D media directives & promise the jabs were harmless.
Some not harmed - some absolutely harmed.

Hassayamper said...

Then haul Fauci in and see if the pardon is valid.

As a pardonee, Fauci has no 5th Amendment right to remain silent about any act covered by the pardon, nor does he have any immunity from prosecution for new acts of perjury in his testimony.

Put the screws to the slimy little bastard under oath in front of Congress.

Peachy said...

Bagoh - heh.

Ralph L said...

If you can't prosecute the principals, punishing some underlings will discourage peons from participating in the future. They'll tell their bosses to P off.

Peachy said...

These Democratic liars - from Fauci on down the to corrupt lying hack D media - told us the virus came from a wet market. FALSE. LIE.
The cultists still buy that, just like every other lie they swallow whole.

Kai Akker said...

And tar-and-feather every fellow traveler who joined the Crusade for Conformity and demanded that others do the same. Lotta people; lotta people. Turn those bluenoses red and then black.

Levi Starks said...

But… Science.

Enigma said...

Using the Kimmel Love Speech Criteria(tm),

"Will no one rid us of the turbulent COVID crew?"

Dr Weevil said...

RCOCEAN II writes "People hate Fauci but ignore everyone else at CDC involved". The guy indicted today, and his two co-conspirators, were in fact three of the 'everyone elses' at the CDC. Apparently hating Jews rots other parts of your brain, not just the ones containing information about Jews.

Jim at said...

To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.

Because the left thrives on having control over others. And who had more control than these thugs?

Jersey Fled said...

“ To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.”

If you understand the Left as being fundamentally a death cult, it all snaps into focus.

Yancey Ward said...

Imagine you knew in February of 2020 that you had either created or funded the creation of a virus that had already killed nearly 100,000 people and you believed would kill millions more- what do you do? Fauci etal. answered that question by telling everyone involved that they could hang together in a cover-up or they would surely hang separately from a noose.

Original Mike said...

"Imagine you knew in February of 2020 that you had either created or funded the creation of a virus that had already killed nearly 100,000 people and you believed would kill millions more- what do you do?"

Not that I'm inclined toward suicide, but probably shoot myself. I mean, my God…

But yeah, these assholes covered it up. And pretty much got away with it because of the left running cover for them.

Vance said...

So who killed more people? Heinrich Himmler or Fauci?

bagoh20 said...

Today proves that Pam Bondi was the bottle neck after all. I had high hopes for her. She talked a good game, but after learing more about her past, I'm not surprised.

Original Mike said...

I had a bad feeling about Bondi.

Jim at said...

She talked a good game, but after learing more about her past, I'm not surprised.

The way she shit the bed on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case was all I needed to know she was bad news.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

I’m curious about who this email refers to:

“This is the first of what I hope will be a continued series of expressions of gratitude for your advice, support, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans in my battle against your boss’s boss, his boss, and the ultimate boss on the hill,” Daszak wrote in a message accompanying the June 25 gift [to Morens].

Your = David Morens, clearly.
Your boss = Anthony Fauci, presumably. Was Fauci Morens’s direct boss?
Your boss’s boss = Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health
His boss = Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services
The ultimate boss on the hill = Donald Trump, presumably

The phrasing “my battle against” seems to say that Collins, Azar, and Trump are going after Daszak, which is odd as the FOIA requests that Morens was supposedly helping with were coming from outside the government, not inside.

We need to know what the “battle” is before we can fully judge the context.

Jersey Fled said...

“ So who killed more people? Heinrich Himmler or Fauci?”

Or Margaret Sanger

Robert Cook said...
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Robert Cook said...

"I had a bad feeling about Bondi."

Who with any sense and sensibility could NOT have had and still have terminally bad feelings about Bondi, Noem, Musk, and all in the Trump administration--not least Donny himself--from the day of Trump's second election (including doubts of its legitimacy)?

And who with any acuity is NOT experiencing a worsening of their terminally bad feelings by each month, week, day, hour, moment and second of Trump's truly appalling policies, manner, behavior, rhetoric, and utter contempt for everyone other than himself, (and he probably suffers character-warping self-contempt, despite his feeble fight to deny it).

narciso said...

Gain of function was illegal in this country, so they offshored it
Peter dazsak and eco health was the driver

Vance said...

Poor Cookie. "My dreams of a destroyed America under communist dictatorship and all the citizenry slaves is under assault by Trump! He must be stopped!"

narciso said...

They pretended it was a natural mutation my eye

Original Mike said...

Hey Robert! Trump pulled off another fake assassination attempt. Is there nothing he can't do?

Hassayamper said...

The phrasing “my battle against” seems to say that Collins, Azar, and Trump are going after Daszak

Does it now? Why do you assume that? I read it as a conspiracy by the permanent bureaucracy to undermine the authority of the President and his political appointees.

If Trump ever made up his mind to go after Daszak, today would not be the first time 99.8% of the population ever heard of him.

Hassayamper said...

Who with any sense and sensibility could NOT have had and still have terminally bad feelings about Bondi, Noem, Musk, and all in the Trump administration--not least Donny himself--from the day of Trump's second election (including doubts of its legitimacy)?

No true Scotsman, surely.

What a profoundly stupid statement. Par for the course from Cookie.

narciso said...

One had to engineer the virus then ban effective therapies to create the panic neccessary for the lockdowns and rhe vaccines

Hassayamper said...

One had to engineer the virus then ban effective therapies to create the panic neccessary for the lockdowns and rhe vaccines

There HAD to be no effective non-vaccine therapy, otherwise the experimental mRNA vaccines would have been illegal, and Big Pharma would have had to forgo tens of billions of dollars of profits.

People who think scientists and government workers are made of finer clay than the rest of us, and impervious to such incentives, are some of the biggest fools on earth.

narciso said...

Its as cynical as the second mission impossible film

Peachy said...

Hassayamper 5:39 - well said.

Vance said...

Remember, the left said with a straight face that you couldn't go to church because it was deadly, but you could march and protest and riot as long as it was for Democrat approved causes, because the virus wouldn't infect anyone who was protesting for a Democrat cause. That was what the "experts" said. That's why we could have all the george floyd riots during covid but couldn't go to church. That was why Democrats could throw a huge funeral for that "civil rights leader" i.e. racist, but your grandma died alone and couldn't be treated well. Inga, Cookie, Howard, all pushed those policies.

Jim at said...

Looks like Cook's got a good start on his manifesto.

Mason G said...

Covid? Mistakes were made, time to move on. Nothing to see here, folks.

Achilles said...

Original Mike said...
These guys created a global pandemic that killed millions. To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.

Are you trying to Make a joke?

The average democrat loves it when people die . Not only is that Your people to obstruct their will to power, it also creates the emergency that they think they need to seize power.

narciso said...

Michael senger is one of the leading experts in thid matter

The wef wargame that set the coverup and the lockdowns

Achilles said...

bagoh20 said...
Today proves that Pam Bondi was the bottle neck after all. I had high hopes for her. She talked a good game, but after learing more about her past, I'm not surprised.

Bondi belongs in jail with the rest of her traitorous friends.

Swalwell was trading US secrets to a Chinese spy for sex and Bondi helped him avoid prosecution. She is just a much traitor as he is.

n.n said...

A non-sterilizing vaxxxine, but I repeat myself. A jab mandate or cancelation. A vaxxxine with viral properties and sustainable defects. Retarding children's social abd physical evolution. Pregnancy and undisclosed Planned Parenthood scheme. Excess deaths and injuries. Handicapping the economy with benefits.

boatbuilder said...

To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.

Because they (almost) stopped Trump, and it (almost) worked.

Not Illinois Resident said...

Strip the Fauci Gang of their Federal pensions, and Fauci of his post-retirement Fed perks. Call me Disgusted.

boatbuilder said...

Shouldn't they indict the author of Operation Warp Speed whom expressly encouraged cutting corners to get an experiment drug forced into people against their will???

I don't remember it that way, Howard. What I remember was that the President was doing everything possible to get an America that was completely shut down back to productivity and "normalcy", while the political establishment opposed him every step of the way. He forced no one to be vaccinated. Yes, he pushed the vaccine and in fact took it himself. Yes, he got some very bad advice from people like Fauci and Birx. Big Pharma deliberately delayed the vaccine until after the election. Biden got elected, and the vaccine mandates began.

lonejustice said...

Yet President Donald Trump awarded a presidential commendation to Dr. Anthony Fauci for his work fighting Covid.

Yancey Ward said...

"Yet President Donald Trump awarded a presidential commendation to Dr. Anthony Fauci for his work fighting Covid."

Of course, Trump at the time didn't know Fauci was one of the people who help fund the work in the lab that led to COVID.

Mason G said...

"Big Pharma deliberately delayed the vaccine until after the election. Biden got elected, and the vaccine mandates began."

That's what I remember. Anybody got a link to where Trump said "Get the shot or you're fired."?

Achilles said...

Not Illinois Resident said...

Strip the Fauci Gang of their Federal pensions, and Fauci of his post-retirement Fed perks. Call me Disgusted.

They funded the research of the COVID virus in China and got caught covering that up. That virus killed millions of people.

Taking their pensions is a joke. They should be publicly executed.

Big Mike said...

Original Mike said...

These guys created a global pandemic that killed millions. To this day I don't understand why they became heroes of the left.


Who was certified as the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election?

Original Mike said...

"Because they (almost) stopped Trump, and it (almost) worked."

Yeah, that's the best I can come up with; it's all about Trump. They're sick.

Jamie said...

Robert Cook is not bringing his best stuff these days. Trump is the dark version of a Mary Sue, apparently - the critiques used to be more pointed, and sometimes require actual refutation, but now it's just 🙄.

Robert Cook, I want the old you back. We ought all to benefit from the exchanges here, and you're not giving us anything to work with. (You're not alone in that, but you used to say more interesting things. Sincerely, I hope you're okay.)

Left Bank of the Charles said...

“I read it [my battle] as a conspiracy by the permanent bureaucracy“

The problem with that interpretation is that Peter Daszak ran the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, was not a member of the permanent bureaucracy, and did not use the word “our” to describe the battle as inclusive of the bureaucracy. Also, he describes Collins, the head of the NIH who was a member of the permanent bureaucracy, as one of the people he was battling against.

I see from Wikipedia that the NIH cut off EcoHealth Alliance’s funding for research at the Wuhan lab in April 2020 and reinstated it in August 2020. So that appears to be the battle.

That raises the questions of what the Trump administration knew and when did they know it. If there was a lab leak involving U.S. government funded research, did they sweep that under the rug just before the 2020 election?

Left Bank of the Charles said...

“Of course, Trump at the time didn't know Fauci was one of the people who help fund the work in the lab that led to COVID.”

Your timeline doesn’t fit, since the Trump administration cut off the EcoHealth Alliance funding in April 2020. We don’t actually know what Trump and his administration knew at that time, but they had some basis for taking that action.

Achilles said...

Howard said...

The virus killed nobody. The clot shot did. Shouldn't they indict the author of Operation Warp Speed whom expressly encouraged cutting corners to get an experiment drug forced into people against their will???

Are you going to be one of those dishonest 20/20 quarterbacks?

This was about the time Trump was being threatened by McConell and the other traitors in the senate to confirm impeachment and Desantis was locking down Florida like a tin pot dictator.

Trump was a racist for ending flights from China and you couldn't leave your house and democrats were burning down inner cities over George Floyd.

narciso said...

The mission was accomplished the virus delivered.

Yancey Ward said...

"That raises the questions of what the Trump administration knew and when did they know it. If there was a lab leak involving U.S. government funded research, did they sweep that under the rug just before the 2020 election?"

The scientists knew with near certainty, as did Fauci. There is evidence that some in the intelligence agencies knew, too. That original wet-market paper thesis from February 2020 is a really bad tell- the evidence cited was all bullshit- the entire paper is an assertion with zero real evidence that distinguishes wet market from the virology lab. There is really only one good explanation for why that paper was prepared and published with such a lack of evidence- its purpose was to cover up the origin itself.

narciso said...

Olivia toye a staffer with no health rxperience for pence pushed birx and fauci and the lockdowns

Yancey Ward said...

"Your timeline doesn’t fit, since the Trump administration cut off the EcoHealth Alliance funding in April 2020. We don’t actually know what Trump and his administration knew at that time, but they had some basis for taking that action."

As I remember it, both of those decisions were not taken in the White House but at NIAID/CDC. It suggests to me that they were preparing to toss Daszak under the bus if they couldn't cover up the orgin. In the end, they decided it was better to not toss him under the bus, for whatever reason. The thing that people forget is that the evidence for a lab origin were not generally public knowledge until early 2021.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

“As I remember it, both of those decisions were not taken in the White House but at NIAID/CDC.”

Sometimes decisions taken at the top are pushed down the organization structure to provide deniability. Daszak’s inclusion of “the ultimate boss on the hill” sure suggests that Trump did know.

If Covid was the result of a lab leak caused by U.S. government funded research, it would put the President of the United States in a dilemma. Do you divulge the truth? Or do you worry about the U.S. government having to foot the astronomical damages, not just in the U.S. but around the world?

This case could open Pandora’s box for the U.S. taxpayer.

john mosby said...

I have previously stated my theory of Covid: the US and PRC collaborated to do some research, which went bad and killed a bunch of people. Neither country can really blame the other. Nor can either country admit its own culpability. Even if both the US and PRC agree to call it a draw, other countries will have a huge case of the ass. Autopen's pardon of Fauci is actually pretty statesmanlike (or states-machine-like).

We all know the full story; we just can't officially admit it. CC, JSM

Original Mike said...

NIH has removed virologist Ralph Baric from all his grants; UNC placed Baric on leave.

Accountability has been a long time coming. It still has a long way to go.

Mason G said...

"Accountability has been a long time coming. It still has a long way to go."

"A journey of a thousand miles..."

Peachy said...

More here

Peachy said...

The left are the fascists.

Peachy said...

Yancey 7:08 - well said and true.

Peachy said...

Howard is a nutter. The Virus killed millions.

Peachy said...

and the biggest fraud f-head of them all pardoned himself and his entire vile family and Fauci.

and the leftists all voted for vile Crook Joe.

Achilles said...

Peachy said...

Howard is a nutter. The Virus killed millions.

Howard was just trying to rile people up. He wasn't being serious.

You can climb out of the net he threw.

Original Mike said...

"Howard is a nutter."
"Howard was just trying to rile people up."


Embrace the power of AND.

Yancey Ward said...

Left Bank, the problem with your theory is that Trump actually has stated he believes it was a lab leak. Wherever the cover-up originated it almost certainly wasn't with Trump himself. There is literally no evidence that the gain-of-function decision in 2017 had any White House involvement at all- it appears to have been all Fauci all along.

However, I don't think the coverup originated at the White House or anywhere else that wasn't Tony Fauci's office. Daszak was probably unaware who ordered his funding removed. That it was ever removed indicates that NIAID knew in April 2020 where the virus came from.

Christopher B said...

Left Bank, quit trying to gaslight us. Trump found out about COVID by reading the newspapers, the same way Obama found out what his underlings were doing.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

“Left Bank, the problem with your theory is that Trump actually has stated he believes it was a lab leak.”

Yes, but when did he state that, and did he back off once the 2020 election heated up? In any case, I’m more interested in what he knew and when he knew than what he said, which so often is just bullshit.

And I wouldn’t say it is my theory. This could also be just another one of Trump’s revenge prosecutions, because Fauci’s competence made him look bad. Or it could be that EcoHealth Alliance had nothing to do with the Covid outbreak, and did some underhanded dealing with the government to fight losing its funding. We don’t know yet.

Original Mike said...

"Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers University and long-time critic of gain-of-function studies, said he “was surprised the released report omitted discussion of U.S. actions, including the role of USAID, NIH, and EcoHealth Alliance in funding research on SARS-related coronaviruses in Wuhan.” "

Fucking USAID!?!

Original Mike said...

"“There’s a real possibility that the virus’s birthplace was Chapel Hill,” said former CDC Director Redfield on a 2024 podcast." (see link above)

Original Mike said...

Haven't read this one yet. Tomorrow .

Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2?

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