RealClearInvestigations editor J. Peder Zane joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to talk about his new piece, “The Era of Cover-Ups,” examining Anthony Fauci’s preemptive pardon and unanswered questions surrounding COVID’s origins. To blame Fauci for a million deaths seems highly irresponsible and undercuts what he’s doing,” he said about Sen. Rand Paul’s comments. “What Jay Bhattacharya was talking about is this more important point, which is Fauci made decisions that they then tried to cover up, and he was involved in funding the Wuhan lab, which is likely where this virus started. We don’t know for certain, but it sure seems that way.” “That’s not a smoking gun, but it’s not a coincidence that you would date it from the time that we now know that the agency he was leading provided funding or had a relationship with the Wuhan lab,” he said. “COVID was not about gray areas and open debate about science that’s constantly evolving. It was about command and control: This is what you’re going to believe, and if you don’t believe it, you’re going to be punished.” “The idea of a preemptive pardon is so dangerous,” Zane said. “And yes, the entrapment, it makes no sense. And we live in a country where someone like Fauci has lawyers; he can defend himself.” “Think how undemocratic a preemptive pardon is. You’re saying that the duly elected officers of this country, okay, that the people have chosen, cannot be trusted. And so, therefore, I am going to issue a pardon because the next guy can.”
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