During the coronavirus hearing this week, [GOP Rep. Majorie Taylor] Greene attacked Fauci as she held up a photo of two sedated puppies, their heads placed in mesh cages, as they lie on a table while being swarmed by sand flies. Outside the hearing, an ad truck commissioned by a group opposed to taxpayer-funded animal experiments circled Capitol Hill with billboards that showed Fauci together with this photo and directed people to a website called
The group, the White Coat Waste Project, is founded and run by people with links to conservative-leaning organizations, The Washington Post has reported. When we first saw Greene hold up the photo, we figured this would be easy to debunk — another in a string of misleading attacks against Fauci, who became the public face of the government’s response to the pandemic.
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That’s how the Washington Post’s “fact checker” Glenn Kessler starts his story in yesterday’s WaPo in which he does everything he can to rationalize allegations that Anthony Fauci’s NIH repeatedly lied in 2020-21 about funding gruesome lab tests for many years in which beagles, monkeys and other intelligent animals have tortured and killed in the most grotesque ways imaginable.
This has been common knowledge among the segment of Americans paying attention since 2021, when it was widely reported by conservative media and talked about by truth tellers in congress like Rep. Greene and Sen. Rand Paul. There is no question NIH has repeatedly denied and lied about its long-term practice of funding such programs, including Fauci himself while under oath in congressional hearings.