Tuesday's Titillating Absurdities: Trump Ends the Fauci Madness and Implies He Knows Who Blew Up Nord Stream

If only we knew then what we know now…: On Monday, President Donald Trump (oh, how I do love typing those three glorious words to begin the day) signed an executive order designed to bring an end to the federal government funding of gain-of-function research:

Transcript:

Will Scharf: The first relates to gain of function research. Gain of function is a type of biomedical research where pathogens are adulterated viruses or adulterate to make them more potent or to change the way that they function. Many people believe that gain of function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in the last decade. What this executive order does, first of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain of function research abroad. It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms. Related to that issue and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research in general is being conducted safely and in a way that ultimately protects human health more.

Trump: It's a big deal. Could have been that we wouldn't have had the problem we had if we had this done earlier, thank you.

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Yes, if only.

Here is what this order does, per the White House: