{"id":1137763,"date":"2021-12-21T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137763"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:20:06","slug":"cotton-fauci-collins-dont-want-to-look-at-wuhan-lab-because-they-were-sending-u-s-tax-dollars-to-fund-dangerous-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-fauci-collins-dont-want-to-look-at-wuhan-lab-because-they-were-sending-u-s-tax-dollars-to-fund-dangerous-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton: Fauci, Collins Don&#039;t Want to Look at Wuhan Lab Because They Were Sending U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Dangerous Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcotton-fauci-collins-dont-want-to-look-at-wuhan-lab-because-they-were-sending-u-s-tax-dollars-to-fund-dangerous-research%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137763&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1269209472-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) insists&nbsp;National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci were reluctant to discuss and investigate the possible role the Wuhan Institute of Virology played in the COVID-19 pandemic because they were \u201cresponsible\u201d for sending tax dollars to that laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The Arkansas lawmaker argued those discussions were not a \u201cdistraction\u201d during an appearance on Monday\u2019s broadcast of FNC\u2019s \u201cFox News Primetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[I]t\u2019s not a distraction,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd there is no evidence to suggest it\u2019s much more likely that this virus came from a bat which don\u2019t live within hundreds of miles of Wuhan or that it came from some food market, which wasn\u2019t even selling bats.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said from the very beginning of this pandemic we should obviously look to the laboratory where they were researching bat-based coronaviruses in the middle of a city where this outbreak originated,\u201d Cotton continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci don\u2019t want to look at that lab because they were responsible for sending U.S. tax dollars to fund dangerous research to make coronaviruses more transmissible or more lethal there,\u201d he added. \u201cBut the American people deserve answers, and China deserves to be held accountable for unleashing this plague on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_poor\">@jeff_poor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) insists\u00a0National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci were reluctant to discuss and investigate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}