{"id":1765515,"date":"2022-12-07T06:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765515"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:19:09","slug":"fauci-knows-everything-but-remembers-nothing-in-his-deposition-for-big-tech-collusion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-knows-everything-but-remembers-nothing-in-his-deposition-for-big-tech-collusion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Knows Everything But Remembers Nothing In His Deposition for Big Tech Collusion Case"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffauci-knows-everything-but-remembers-nothing-in-his-deposition-for-big-tech-collusion-case%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=1765515&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--><p>After nearly three years of lording his bureaucratic power over the nation and claiming to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1465003501541597191?s=20&#038;t=n8VY02UY51znKqT1eLgtKg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">represent the science<\/a>,\u201d National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci remembers hardly anything about the Covid regime he leveraged to keep Americans masked and at home.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, during his seven-hour deposition, Fauci failed to recall pertinent information about his role in the federal government\u2019s Covid weaponization at least <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGJeffLandry\/status\/1599850309152825346?s=20&#038;t=6Q6e2ZNhXuUQgtWYPHjCxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">174 times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.09.32-AM-1024x440-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.09.32-AM-1024x440-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.09.32-AM-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.09.32-AM-768x330-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.09.32-AM.png 1196w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/135885afauci112322_full_redacted.pdf?sfvrsn=35f4a425_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">depositions<\/a> with Fauci and other <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/21\/court-jen-psaki-must-testify-over-white-houses-collusion-with-big-tech-to-silence-covid-dissent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-profile members<\/a> of the Biden administration are part of a lawsuit from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry which seeks to expose the collusion that fueled Big Tech\u2019s censorship spree against dissenters of the Covid-19 groupthink. <\/p>\n<p>The attorneys general specifically subpoenaed Fauci for becoming \u201cdirectly involved with multiple social media censorship campaigns against COVID-19 misinformation\u201d including attempting to \u201cdiscredit any theory\u201d that the virus resulted from a lab leak in Wuhan. For his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fauci-is-an-unhinged-unelected-bureaucrat-who-deserves-to-be-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severe mishandling of Covid<\/a>, Fauci raked in more than <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/17\/while-shuttering-your-family-business-fauci-made-1-7-million-on-his-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.7 million<\/a> in 2020 alone.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned further about his role, Fauci failed to recall key conversations and documents related to the federal government\u2019s handling of the virus. Fauci said he couldn\u2019t recall when he first became familiar with \u201cThe Great Barrington Declaration,\u201d a document written by scientific experts challenging the government\u2019s heavy-handed lockdowns, even though he colluded with former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to issue a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/20\/damning-emails-prove-fauci-and-collins-colluded-to-nuke-herd-immunity-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cquick and devastating published take down\u201d<\/a> of it in October 2020. He said he couldn\u2019t recall whether he authorized exceptions for certain parties to do gain-of-function research. Fauci also couldn\u2019t explain why he emailed his deputy director Hugh Auchincloss literature about gain-of-function research in February of 2020, nor could he remember when he had met several scientists involved in researching coronaviruses. <\/p>\n<p>When he wasn\u2019t giving counsel the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/01\/supercut-james-comey-doesnt-recall-anything-about-anything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Comey amnesia treatment<\/a>, Fauci indignantly defended his decisions, citing his concerns that the same types of \u201cmisinformation\u201d that fueled \u201cwild speculations and accusations, you know, blaming the Chinese\u201d would get out of hand without intervention.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.16.15-AM-1024x749-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.16.15-AM-1024x749-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.16.15-AM-300x219-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.16.15-AM-768x562-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.16.15-AM.png 1132w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Multiple times throughout the deposition, Fauci admitted the possibility that his agency and other members of the federal government could have communicated with censors at Facebook, Twitter, and other Silicon Valley giants to suppress information that ran contrary to his preferred narrative.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.22.14-AM-1024x858-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.22.14-AM-1024x858-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.22.14-AM-300x251-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.22.14-AM-768x644-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.22.14-AM.png 1136w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Yet, Fauci tried to deflect personal blame by claiming he was not \u201caware of suppression of speech on social media.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.19.31-AM-1024x341-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.19.31-AM-1024x341-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.19.31-AM-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.19.31-AM-768x256-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.19.31-AM.png 1134w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>He also buried the fact that his daughter worked at Twitter. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.35.48-AM-1024x345-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.35.48-AM-1024x345-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.35.48-AM-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.35.48-AM-768x259-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-10.35.48-AM.png 1192w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Then Fauci claimed he couldn\u2019t recall his conversations about whether the virus originated in a lab. <\/p>\n<p>Previously uncovered emails <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/gop-leaders-demand-fauci-answer-for-emails-admitting-possible-lab-leak-intentional-genetic-manipulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicate<\/a> that Fauci, along with Collins, knew as early as Feb. 1, 2020, that \u201cCOVID-19 may have leaked from the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Instead of weighing the evidence, Fauci and Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/13\/fauci-collins-pressured-scientists-to-abandon-paper-on-covid-origins-and-potential-wuhan-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressured<\/a> a group of scientists to abandon a paper they were authoring about the lab as the possible origin of the virus. They also contemplated what their agencies could do, potentially with Big Tech censors\u2019 help, to \u201cput down this very destructive conspiracy.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>When legal counsel questioned Fauci about his lab leak conversations with Collins, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden dodged. He eventually ended the exchange with his infamous line: \u201cI don\u2019t recall.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.56.40-AM-1024x740-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.56.40-AM-1024x740-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.56.40-AM-300x217-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.56.40-AM-768x555-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.56.40-AM.png 1148w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Moments after he touted his 38-year record as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci refused to take responsibility for his agency\u2019s authorization of the EcoHealth Alliance\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/21\/nih-letter-shows-fauci-lied-to-congress-about-funding-for-gain-of-function-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dangerous gain-of-function research<\/a> on bat coronaviruses in China. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not individually approve grants. They go through multiple levels of peer review, so I would not have, by standard way things work, have seen this, read it, or individually approved it. That\u2019s not the way things work in the Institute,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cI have no recollection of the initiation of this grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci also claimed to be only \u201cvaguely familiar\u201d with the EcoHealth Alliance, despite the fact that the organization run by Peter Daszak received funding from Fauci\u2019s agency for years. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.42.11-AM-1024x742-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.42.11-AM-1024x742-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.42.11-AM-300x218-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.42.11-AM-768x557-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-9.42.11-AM.png 1142w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Fauci also contradicted his previous testimonies and interviews several times throughout the course of his deposition. <\/p>\n<p>Emails obtained last year through the Freedom of Information Act indicated Fauci knew as early as February 2020 that face masks <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/02\/emails-show-fauci-knew-masks-werent-very-effective-before-pushing-universal-masking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were largely ineffective<\/a> at preventing the spread of illness. <\/p>\n<p>In those emails, Fauci told a colleague she didn\u2019t need to wear a mask while traveling because \u201cMasks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.\u201d He continued: \u201cThe typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci confirmed to lawyers that this exchange occurred. What he didn\u2019t mention in his testimony, however, was that mere months after that exchange with his colleague, Fauci called for universal mask mandates regardless of people\u2019s health status. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.37.43-AM-1024x990-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.37.43-AM-1024x990-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.37.43-AM-300x290-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.37.43-AM-768x742-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-06-at-8.37.43-AM.png 1196w\" \/><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly three years of lording his bureaucratic power over the nation and claiming to \u201crepresent the science,\u201d National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci remembers hardly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765515","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}