{"id":67757,"date":"2021-06-03T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67757"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:43:18","slug":"that-was-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67757","title":{"rendered":"<b>&#8220;That Was A Lie&#8221;<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;That Was A Lie&#8221;: Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots<\/h1>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0Tucker Carlson ripped &#8220;<strong>the utter fraudulence of Tony Fauci<\/strong>&#8221; Wednesday night, after\u00a0<em>BuzzFeed<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0obtained thousands of pages of emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request,\u00a0<strong>revealing that the nation&#8217;s top virologist was telling the public one thing, while furiously working on damage control and narrative-shaping\u00a0<\/strong>as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20look.jpg?itok=uX8UmWW0\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20look.jpg?itok=uX8UmWW0\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/fauci%20look.jpg?itok=uX8UmWW0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"639104a6-3de8-4cec-8a52-4eed38f934dc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Carlson, Americans assumed &#8220;that the man in charge of protecting the US from COVID must be rational and impressive,&#8221; adding &#8220;We also assumed he must be honest.\u00a0<em><strong>But we were wrong.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It soon became clear that Tony Fauci was just another sleazy federal bureaucrat &#8211; deeply political and often dishonest. More shocking than that we then learned that Fauci himself was implicated in the very pandemic he&#8217;d been charged with fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<strong>Fauci supported the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made COVID possible.<\/strong>&#8221; -Tucker Carlson<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fauci&#8217;s emails collectively show that &#8220;from the beginning, Tony Fauci was worried that the public might conclude COVID had originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would he be concerned that Americans would conclude that?&#8221; Tucker asked. &#8220;Possibly because\u00a0<strong>Tony Fauci knew that he had funded gain-of-function experiments at that very same laboratory.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The emails prove that Fauci lied about this under oath,&#8221; said Tucker, who highlighted an email from scientist Christian G. Anderson to Fauci, saying that<strong>\u00a0he and his fellow scientists felt the virus looked &#8216;potentially&#8217; engineered<\/strong>, and that\u00a0<strong>members of his team &#8220;all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20and.jpg?itok=i4ws0fba\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20and.jpg?itok=i4ws0fba\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/fauci%20and.jpg?itok=i4ws0fba\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"662576b0-9903-4fd0-95a1-9ecf752b6404\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fauci then sent an urgent email to his deputy &#8211; Hugh Auchincloss &#8211; with the subject<strong>\u00a0&#8220;IMPORTANT,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0and which read &#8220;<strong>Hugh, it is essential that we speak this AM. Keep your cell phone on<\/strong>\u00a0&#8230; You will have tasks today that must be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1399948462184087554&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fwas-lie-tucker-carlson-levels-fauci-after-foia-emails-connect-dots&amp;sessionId=7ca8e34093339244056a7025d054e745e68f605c&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1399948462184087554\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Attached to that email was a document titled &#8220;<strong>Baric, Shi et al &#8211; Nature medicine &#8211; SARS Gain of function.pdf<\/strong>&#8221; referring to Dr. Ralph Baric, a US-based virologist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology under Dr. Shi Zhengly (&#8220;Bat lady&#8221;) known for manipulating bat coronaviruses to better-infect humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker then shows a clip of Fauci denying that Baric had conducted gain-of-function research<\/strong>, under oath<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In retrospect,\u00a0<strong>that looks a lot like perjury,<\/strong>&#8221; said Carlson, adding that early last year a lot of people at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were worried that COVID-19 had not occurred naturally, and were concerned that it had been manipulated in a lab in China &#8211;\u00a0<strong>facts they were &#8216;determined&#8217; to hide from the Public<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker then notes that\u00a0<strong>a group of top-level virologists were told to keep the contents of a teleconference discussion &#8220;<em>in total confidence<\/em>&#8221; and not to share information until next steps are agreed upon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/tucker%201a.PNG?itok=OzY5BKaI\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0ef81e35-41b4-43fc-91d8-7b121fbf71b3\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Screenshot &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carlson then mentioned<em>\u00a0<strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/em>, after UK virologist Jeremy Farrar\u00a0<strong>passed along an article in which we suggested COVID-19 was man-made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We now know that&#8217;s a more plausible explanation than the one we believed at first, and were told by the media &#8211; which is that corona came from a pangolin.\u00a0<strong>And yet for the crime of saying that out loud, a more plausible explanation, Zero Hedge was banned from social media platforms.\u00a0<\/strong>Until recently you were not allowed to suggest that COVID might be man-made. Why couldn&#8217;t you suggest that?\u00a0<strong>The fact-checkers wouldn&#8217;t allow it. Why wouldn&#8217;t they? Because Tony Fauci assured the tech monopolies that the coronavirus could not have been man-made. And so the tech monopolies shut down the topic<\/strong>.&#8221; -Tucker Carlson<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/tzh2.PNG?itok=cxpfMiSm\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/tzh2.PNG?itok=cxpfMiSm\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/tzh2.PNG?itok=cxpfMiSm\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d13dae83-f6a5-4ff7-af5e-3e620c49c376\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlson then showed an April 17 press conference in which Fauci told the American public that COVID-19 was &#8220;totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that point, what Tony Fauci just asserted as known,\u00a0<strong>could not conclusively have been known.\u00a0<em>That was a lie<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yp6btJhS66c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/was-lie-tucker-carlson-levels-fauci-after-foia-emails-connect-dots\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/was-lie-tucker-carlson-levels-fauci-after-foia-emails-connect-dots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That Was A Lie&#8221;: Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots ZeroHedge.com Fox News&#8217;\u00a0Tucker Carlson ripped &#8220;the utter fraudulence of Tony Fauci&#8221; Wednesday night, after\u00a0BuzzFeed\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0obtained thousands of pages of emails through a Freedom of Information &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}