White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro spoke to FBN’s “Mornings with Maria” Bartiromo Thursday morning to make the case that Dr. Anthony Fauci “played God” by funding gain-of-function research tied to the Wuhan lab, then allegedly drove a public misinformation campaign to dismiss the lab-leak theory for COVID-19. Navarro praised Bartiromo for being open to the lab-leak origin question in 2020 and called on Congress to subpoena Fauci and others involved, saying, Fauci lied, Americans died. Navarro’s recent op-ed in the Washington Times: “St. Fauci and the Sinner Media”

PETER NAVARRO: Well, first of all, Maria, you were the only person in the media who was willing to ask that tough question. And we both took a lot of heat for that segment. And what’s remarkable about it is how right you and I both were. And what we know now, and the American people need to decanonize Saint Fauci, what we know very clearly is that Fauci played God. He basically gave money to the Wuhan lab for the express purpose of using gain-of-function research to create a deadly virus for the purpose of then creating vaccines to kill the virus. How did that go, Anthony? And then when that thing leaked from the lab, he conducted a misinformation campaign using some of the most prestigious academics in the world to insist that it wasn’t from the lab, it was the zoonotic theory, from nature. And the biggest lie of omission was the fact that he funded the virus to begin with. One million Americans died, millions worldwide. He needs to be held accountable. But you know, Maria, this is where you’re exempt from this: The media had a lot to do with canonizing Fauci because they had an agenda back at the time. They knew that if Donald Trump could be blamed for that virus rather than China, it would change the political landscape entirely. So I thank you. I thank The Washington Times for publishing the piece. I thank Tulsi Gabbard for getting out there. But Congress, get off your ass and subpoena not just him but all the people who were involved in this, because this guy has blood on his hands. Fauci lied, Americans died. I said it back then. I’ll say it right here. And this story needs to get out so that it doesn’t happen again. MARIA BARTIROMO: Yeah, you mentioned your op-ed in The Washington Times. You argued the FBI agreed the virus started in a lab, but Dr. Fauci almost certainly funded it, but somehow got to the FBI and the CIA to tone down their expectations and what they were saying publicly about it. So my question now is, you say let’s get Fauci back in to answer these questions. He was pardoned, right? And I can’t even – this really just boggles the mind, the fact that Joe Biden, or maybe Joe Biden’s autopen, pardoned Fauci literally an hour before President Trump was to take his oath of office for the second time. Why wait until the 11th hour to actually pardon Fauci? And if it was an autopen, is it even legitimate? PETER NAVARRO: It’s not legitimate. Fauci – think about that, a scientist getting pardoned who has the blood of millions of people on his hands. It’s outrageous. Look, we’ve got to get everybody who was involved in that conspiracy. But Fauci needs to be held accountable. He’s a millionaire with documentaries that have helped him, and it’s like crazy stuff. He’s not a hero. He is a true villain. MARIA BARTIROMO: Let me get your take on where this goes. Rand Paul has been very strong on this, questioned Fauci over and over again. What does the process look like now that Tulsi Gabbard has released all of this information? What do we do with it? PETER NAVARRO: We get Fauci on the stand. We get all of the academics who wrote this Proximal Origin article, misinformation orchestrated by Fauci. I would like to get some of the journalists who basically called folks like us conspiracy theorists and said we were out of our minds. I would like to know whether they were coordinating with Fauci. We need to get people up on the Hill telling the truth about this. And look, I’m surprised people aren’t suing Fauci civilly for all of the damages they did to their families and killing people and things like that. I don’t think a pardon would prevent a class-action suit against Fauci personally. He needs to be held accountable. Think about it, Maria. The guy’s sitting in a mansion with millions of dollars, and a lot of people in the country think this guy’s a hero. He created – he was Dr. Frankenstein of the modern era. This is indisputable fact right now. He created that virus using gain-of-function research. He did it for the express purpose – he thought it was a good idea: Let’s create a virus in case something happens in the future, so we can create a vaccine, so if something happens in the future we can deal with it. I mean, how did that work out, Anthony? You idiot. You need to come clean, Fauci. I mean, Fauci, you need to come clean, okay? Quit hiding behind your money and your laurels and your PBS documentaries. Come clean. Because you killed people. All the kids that had to sit in their homes. My mom. I couldn’t see my mom where she was. She was holed up in her apartment getting food under the door. I mean, it’s like a prison. Fauci did that. Fauci did that. And the Chinese are in it too. Let’s not forget the culpability of the Chinese Communist Party. They threatened to drown us in a sea of virus if we dared say the virus came from the Wuhan lab. MARIA BARTIROMO: I reported this at the time. I was getting my sources in the hospital industry telling me there were ships on their way from China to the West with PPE equipment, and they were told, turn around, China wants it. So they cornered the market for all of that PPE, like the gowns and the masks and the gloves and all that. But a bigger point is, remember that moment in time when we were all shell-shocked about what was going on. We just wanted to ensure that we were safe, and we wanted to take the medicines that we thought were safe. And God forbid you said you were taking ivermectin or go against the Joe Biden line and the Anthony Fauci line of defense of where we were. We weren’t told that once you had the virus, then you had – you were probably protected. We weren’t told that. It was crazy. So the courage that you had and I had, and a couple of others, was noteworthy because of the moment in time. It was very uncertain. Final word here. PETER NAVARRO: If I may, first time I met Fauci was in the Situation Room in January 2020. I was arguing on behalf of the president for the travel ban from China, and that SOB was totally against it. I didn’t know this guy walked on water. I didn’t know who the hell he was. But when he was talking, I thought, that is an arrogant idiot who is basically out of his depth. And that was the guy who would get on stage in the press briefing room and take shots at the president, passive-aggressive shots. And he lied to everyone. He needs to be held accountable. Again, Maria, you were the courageous one in this, okay? Let’s remember that. Nobody else out there in cable television or the legacy media had the guts and courage to ask those questions. You did it. So good for you. MARIA BARTIROMO: Thank you so much. And it is pretty extraordinary that he was the only guy in President Trump’s new administration, just got to office, ending the first term, he was the only guy that knew anything that had gone on with regard to gain-of-function, and he misled us. What a shame. PETER NAVARRO: Big lie of omission. MARIA BARTIROMO: I wonder how many lives could have been saved if we had honesty early on. PETER NAVARRO: I know how many lives: 5 million, Maria. MARIA BARTIROMO: Peter Navarro. PETER NAVARRO: Blood on his hands. Fauci lied, Americans died. MARIA BARTIROMO: Thank you. Peter Navarro.

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