TUCKER Carlson accused Anthony Fauci of lying about the origin of Covid-19 after a shocking report pointed to a Wuhan lab “leak.”
The Fox News host slammed the nation’s top infectious disease expert as “serially dishonest” and “incompetent” during his Monday night show.
Carlson‘s comments come after a previously undisclosed US intelligence report revealed that three staffers at a Wuhan virology lab became sick with Covid-like symptoms weeks before China disclosed the virus outbreak to the world.
The Wall Street Journal revealed the previously unseen report, which may add weight to calls for a broader probe into whether Covid-19 could have escaped from a Wuhan lab.
Carlson played several clips of Dr Fauci discussing the virus in the early days of the pandemic, before slamming the scientist.
“It looks like this virus did come from a lab in China,” Carlson said. “Nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, that is the new consensus in the American media.”
He went onto allege that the Chinese government likely created the “worst man-made disaster in human history,” and that Dr Fauci was aware of the impending catastrophe.
“This show has heard that on or about November 19, 2019 – right around the time those Chinese researchers became the first Covid patients on planet earth – the government of Thailand contacted the CDC and Tony Fauci’s office to say that its intel service had picked up biological anomalies around the lab in Wuhan,” Carlson said.
He went on to admit that Fox could not confirm that Thailand’s government sent this information, but he “believes” they did.
Fauci said earlier this month that he is “not convinced” that the Covid-19 virus developed naturally, and that he supported further investigation into the origins.
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is fully on board with the possibility that the virus emerged from the Wuhan lab.
“I think you can take the word ‘potential’ out that it came from the lab,” Trump said while speaking to Fox Nation’s Dan Bognino.
The bombshell report about the virus’s origins came on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO), which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of Covid.
A National Security Council spokeswoman had no comment on the Journal’s report.
However, she said the Biden administration continued to have “serious questions about the earliest days of the pandemic, including its origins within the People’s Republic of China.”
“We’re not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2, but we’ve been clear that sound and technically credible theories should be thoroughly evaluated by international experts,” she said.
