RFK Jr. tells Fox News that US gov’t agencies helped fund Wuhan lab studies
'We did a very, very big technology transfer of bioweapons technology to the Wuhan lab and bioweapons technology that was developed at NIH expense,' the 2024 Democrat presidential candidate said.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently suggested that the U.S. government was involved in gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China, saying that federal agencies contributed significant funds to the studies.
During an interview earlier this week with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Kennedy explained that “one of the reasons we haven’t investigated the Wuhan lab is because the U.S. government — not just through the NIH [National Institutes of Health] but through the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and USAID [United States Agency for International Development] was actually funding the studies in the Wuhan lab.”
“We did a very, very big technology transfer of bioweapons technology to the Wuhan lab and bioweapons technology that was developed at NIH expense,” Kennedy said, reiterating that the CIA was “certainly” a part of the gain-of-function research.
“NIH, I think, in the end, gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan lab. But USAID, which was functioning as a CIA surrogate, gave over 64 million and the Pentagon also gave a lot of money.”
Asked if the CIA was “still capable” of participating in political assassinations — at which point Watters noted certain connections between the agency and the presidential candidate’s father and uncle’s murders — Kennedy said, “I couldn’t say yes or no to that question.”
“Even with my uncle’s assassination, you can’t really say the CIA killed John F. Kennedy,” he continued. “You can say members of the CIA, people who were working for the CIA, were definitely involved … people who have confessed to it. But they may have been operating on a rogue basis rather than the CIA doing it.”
Watters also asked Kennedy if, should he be elected president, he would prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for alleged crimes he committed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The candidate replied that he would do so “if there were crimes he committed” but did not declare that Fauci was guilty of crimes.
“I think he caused a lot of injury,” Kennedy said. “I think that he, particularly by withholding early treatment from Americans, we racked up the highest death count in the world. We only have 4.2% of the globe’s population, but we had 16% of the covid deaths in this country and that was from bad policy.”
The presidential candidate added that some of the nation’s mistakes during the pandemic were done “knowingly” by public health officials who “knew that they would be harmful.”
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Though Kennedy’s first time making such a declaration about the gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan lab in China being funded by the U.S. government, he is not the only one to agree with the theory. Information supporting the claims has been released as far back as 2021 and conflicting with Fauci’s statements that the federal government was not providing funds for the research.
After the theory of COVID-19 spreading across the globe because of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was slowly admitted as the probable cause by federal health employees, further information revealed that Fauci knew of connections between the lab and the NIH prior to trying to discredit the lab leak theory.
The former White House medical adviser has also defended his actions during the pandemic despite investigations from Republicans in the House of Representatives.
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