Fri Jul 14, 2023 – 5:12 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently suggested that the U.S. government was involved in gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China, saying that federal agencies contributed significant funds to the studies.
During an interview earlier this week with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Kennedy explained that “one of the reasons we haven’t investigated the Wuhan lab is because the U.S. government — not just through the NIH [National Institutes of Health] but through the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and USAID [United States Agency for International Development] was actually funding the studies in the Wuhan lab.”
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“We did a very, very big technology transfer of bioweapons technology to the Wuhan lab and bioweapons technology that was developed at NIH expense,” Kennedy said, reiterating that the CIA was “certainly” a part of the gain-of-function research.
“NIH, I think, in the end, gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan lab. But USAID, which was functioning as a CIA surrogate, gave over 64 million and the Pentagon also gave a lot of money.”
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