FBI continues to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci over Covid origins

812 points by esporx 14 hours ago on reddit | 91 comments

02meepmeep | 14 hours ago

I wonder how many people in the FBI will be going to prison eventually?

CaptainMagnets | 14 hours ago

Well, Americans won't hold their elected officials accountable for anything so I'm thinking nobody will be going to prison

Loggerdon | 12 hours ago

Democrats said “We don’t put our political opponents in jail. We don’t do that in the US.”

Hows that working out?

abielle1177 | 11 hours ago

Democrats don't appear to be doing it, unless I've missed something

amalgaman | 10 hours ago

That’s their point. Republicans are straight up violating laws and Democrats refuse to do anything beyond strongly worded letters.

Reagalan | 7 hours ago

Still voting for them, as they're still the better party. Always vote the greater good.

asyork | 4 hours ago

Lesser evil is far more accurate in this case.

ExpensiveFig6079 | 20 minutes ago

and if you refuse to vote for the lesser evil, you enable the greater one.

Loggerdon | 7 hours ago

I believe the Democrats should’ve put people in jail. They thought Trump had zero chance of being reelected but they were wrong.

IncoherentMutterer | 10 hours ago

The point being that democrats had four years back in office to piledrive Trump and his lackeys straight into prison. Trump committed many, many crimes. But democrats kept to high minded principles, gave everyone in that dumpster fire a pass... and here we are.

InsideScientist1999 | 10 hours ago

Because they are owned by the same people.

Ambitious-Pirate-505 | 12 hours ago

They go after minorities still.

CaptainMagnets | 11 hours ago

Nothing more American than being racist

Ambitious-Pirate-505 | 10 hours ago

Its literally the American way

xeoron | 10 hours ago

We have but Trump pardons some

amalgaman | 14 hours ago

None.

Remember that the Supreme Court recently ruled that Trumps actions “are probably illegal, but we’re going to let him do it.”

wrosecrans | 13 hours ago

The court can be expanded. Justices can be impeached and removed. It'll be a struggle, but consequences are possible.

At one point, people thought the Nazis would never see consequences. Then there was Nuremberg. (And then the Mossad did cleanup in places like Argentina for the ones that Nuremberg missed.) It took longer than would have been ideal. But there were consequences.

oalfonso | 14 hours ago

Nobody, rules don’t mean anything anymore

diablosinmusica | 13 hours ago

Cleaning up after this administration is going to take decades.

Floreat_democratia | 5 hours ago

Nobody ever cleaned up after Nixon, Reagan, or Bush, so I am curious why you and others think things are going to revert back to the way they were before. Consider for the moment that deconstructing the government and devolving power to private companies was the game plan from the start. They did it.

Drumfucius | 14 hours ago

"Pay no attention to that ~~Epstein~~ man behind the curtain"

fifthstreetsaint | 14 hours ago

Weird the FBI still hasn't arrested a single person on the Epstein list.

Why would they prosecute one of the top living immunologists..? Surely not to distract the most gullible, easily-manipulated electorate in human history (MAGA) while their adjudicated rapist overlord drains their bank accounts?

j____b____ | 13 hours ago

They got jizzlane.

tigeratemybaby | 4 hours ago

They did, and in that trial several of the Epstein victims said under oath that Maxwell was escorting 13yos back and forth to Mar-a-Lago.

You think they could have followed up on that one?

Smooth-Boss-911 | 8 hours ago

That was in 2020 when Joe Biden was president so I don't think it counts. Still waiting on this swamp draining dude to drain some swamp. I think he's confused he keeps draining the reflecting pool.

Internal-Cupcake-245 | 14 hours ago

That's not a real FBI, that's a hijacked corpro-terror FBI turning a blind eye to corruption in the White House and in the United States which has a government now targeting US civilians in semiotic influence operations.

ratherenjoysbass | 14 hours ago

The FBI was real for maybe 10 years. It's consistently been used as a tool to suppress people of certain demographics for years. It's our own little internal CIA. FBI fucks people up nationally, the CIA fucks people up internationally

Glockamoli | 14 hours ago

>the CIA fucks people up internationally

They fuck up people domestically too

TowardsTheImplosion | 13 hours ago

Hey now, Gary Webb totally shot himself in the head twice.

Gluske | 14 hours ago

I thought they didn't think it was a real disease. Which is it

its_raining_scotch | 11 hours ago

And if it is real then China made it and unleashed it on us, so why go after Fauci?

Gluske | 11 hours ago

It could also be real and have jumped the same way multiple coronaviruses have. A reservoir was identified and punished in Nature Medicine in 2015. instead of that being evidence that this was natural, it became "evidence" that it must be artificial.

Pretty grim state of affairs for logic and reasoning

Sludgehammer | 6 hours ago

A lot of conspiracy theories operate on what I think of as Onion Logic. It's a series of cascading arguments presented one after another, despite the various 'layers' often being contradictory to each other. However, all the arguments work towards roughly the same goal.

You've probably run into this with climate change denial. Someone starts out with the statement "Climate change isn't real, it's all a hoax", if you refute that it shifts to "Well it just looks like it's getting warmer because weather stations are in hotter locations now", refute that and it shifts to "Well it doesn't matter because climate change isn't man made" then it shifts to "Well actually more CO2 is actually good" and so on and so forth. What's exhausting is that you can never make any progress, even if you peel off a layer and get to the next, when you come back to the argument the outside layers have regrown and your back at the first layer of argument.

COVID denialists are working on the same logic, the outer most layer is that COVID isn't real, then we get to the "Well it wasn't a big deal", and so on. The only difference is there's a little cross linking of the layers on COVID denial, the "Well Fauci didn't take it seriously enough" and "It's a chinese bioweapon" layers have kinda fused into "It's a chinese bioweapon that is somehow Fauci's fault". The fact that makes no sense doesn't matter, it's just another layer to throw out.

Hawkwise83 | 13 hours ago

They should investigate those pedos in the Epstein files. Instead of working for them.

TheQuestionMaster8 | 13 hours ago

This is why Biden pardoned Fauci and why Fauci invoked the fifth in his latest congressional hearing.

badhairguy | 11 hours ago

Are you saying because they knew there would be bogus investigations (correct) or because he was somehow doing something criminal ( bullshit )? Your comment could be taken both ways

iKnowRobbie | 13 hours ago

This needs to be the first time a sitting US President is jailed. This is the "unprecedented" thing that NEEDS to happen.

deaston11 | 13 hours ago

Investigate the fucking Epstein Files. Jesus, these people are monsters. Eat shit trump

dennismfrancisart | 13 hours ago

Aren't they busy with the latest massive cyber attack that grabbed millions of licenses from American drivers?

Old-Landscape-7538 | 13 hours ago

So the FBI is the Orange fuck's personal gestapo now?

Korvar | 12 hours ago

ICE are the SA, FBI is the Gestapo.

heaven1991 | 10 hours ago

If I remember correctly, wasn't the SA cleansed by the SS ?

holamau | 13 hours ago

I don’t know what these assholes are whining and bitching about, covid wasn’t real, according to them.

Wrong-Branch5953 | 12 hours ago

The clown show of American government continues its reign, I see.

RevoltYesterday | 11 hours ago

Isn't that the law enforcement agency run by a podcaster with no law enforcement experience?

giocondasmiles | 12 hours ago

Where are the Trumpstein files again?

DanimalPlays | 13 hours ago

Federal bureau of intimidation.

TheQuestionMaster8 | 13 hours ago

This is why Biden pardoned Fauci and why Fauci invoked the fifth in his latest congressional hearing.

Think-Hospital7422 | 11 hours ago

Can't wait until we get the American people's FBI back again.

WinterAmphibian2 | 8 hours ago

What a tremendous waste of resources.

OffSidesByALot | 8 hours ago

So we are spending money and resources and man hours investigating someone that ultimately can’t be prosecuted anyway because of the pardon he was given, in lieu of spending all that time and resources and manpower investigating people that can be prosecuted?
For the life of me can’t figure out why this country is broken and Trump is making the deficit worse

bad_take_ | 10 hours ago

The Covid lab in Wuhan was studying a covid strain, RaTG13, that was so different than the SARS-CoV-2 that caused the pandemic, that to argue that this was the lab leak is like arguing that because a lab was studying chimpanzees, it must have accidentally released a human.
Dr Fauci recognizes this. Which is why he doesn’t take the lab leak theory seriously. But people like Tucker Carlson spread this idea around. It is as much nonsense as prosecuting Fauci is.

MattGdr | 14 hours ago

It’s from bats, originally. Then a species from the wet market. Next question.

pike360 | 3 hours ago

A pack of cunts.

Raddekopp | 2 hours ago

But X-Files taught me that the FBI are the good guys? Have I been lied to?

Kerry-4013-Porter | 9 hours ago

It is an undeniable fact that Dr. Fauci and American scientists have been making efforts for decades to modify the virus into one that is more contagious to humans (with the external purpose of creating a vaccine against a more contagious virus) and have also collaborated with the Wuhan Institute in China.

The question here is whether this was a simple accident involving American scientists and the Wuhan Institute in China, or if there was a much more evil intention.

Katyafan | 2 hours ago

There is a third option-you being wrong.

MrDavieT | 29 minutes ago

It’s not a fact. It’s an opinion.

Facts are different. Facts are proven.

That difference is crucial.

Godzlittlehand | 10 hours ago

We should find out what happened to Dr. Timothy Cunningham and what was he so worried about in 2018 that he "unalived himself" ...

ctdrever | 9 hours ago

Pretty soon they are going to blame him for the TDS epidemic sweeping the nation.

thenikolaka | 12 hours ago

It’s the most bizarre thing in the world to me. At the same time Americans want to blame ourselves for funding the research and causing the pandemic that did ultimately the most damage to us of any other nation, and they also want to use that to threaten other nations NOT to do the same thing, as if they would. lol