Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Fauci essentially restarted the bioweapons arms"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "As you pointed out, gain-of-function research is the kind of science designed to make microbes and pathogens more virulent, more transmissible, and more deadly. It was in this country that they began doing it in 1947—by the military and intelligence agencies—in order to develop biological weapons.

In 1969, President Nixon banned it all: he shut down Fort Detrick, closed all the labs, and signed the Biological Weapons Convention. That ban lasted until 2001.

After the anthrax attacks, Anthony Fauci essentially restarted the biological arms race, using the excuse of vaccine development, since the same science used to make bioweapons is used to make vaccines.

In 2014, three of his viruses escaped, and 300 scientists wrote letters to President Obama asking him to shut Fauci down. President Obama declared a moratorium, but instead of ending the experiments, Fauci moved them overseas—primarily to the Wuhan lab.

And now, the leading institutions of our government—the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and the Department of Energy—all claim that these experiments most likely resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019.

Today, President Trump has taken steps to shut down this kind of research in the country and to stop its funding abroad."