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Gabbard Releases Docs Allegedly Tying Fauci to Wuhan Lab Funds

Are the Fauci ODNI documents long-overdue accountability or unverified political theater?

18 hours ago·Updated 14 hours ago

Gabbard Releases Docs Allegedly Tying Fauci to Wuhan Lab Funds

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Above: Tulsi Gabbard at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 20, 2025. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Spin

Republican narrative

These declassified documents confirm Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab and actively shaped intelligence assessments to bury the lab leak theory. Fauci lied to Congress under oath, and the American public was deliberately kept in the dark by a politicized intelligence community. This is the accountability the country has been owed for years.

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Democratic narrative

After two years, over a million pages of documents and more than 100 hours of testimony, no credible evidence emerged that Fauci suppressed lab leak findings, lied to Congress or orchestrated any cover-up. U.S. intelligence agencies still haven't reached a definitive conclusion on COVID-19's origins. Releasing unverified allegations as bombshells is politics, not accountability.

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