On Friday, Missouri’s attorney general Eric Schmitt revealed a “tidbit” from a deposition given by Dr. Anthony Fauci. He purportedly said that masks were “ineffective” before endorsing their use.
On Friday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt claimed fresh material proved that Dr. Anthony Fauci backed mask regulations despite telling a friend two months earlier that masks were “ineffective.” This information came to light during Schmitt’s seven-hour deposition with Fauci.
After questioning the departing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for seven hours, the Republican attorney general of the Show-Me State tweeted the following “tidbit” on Friday:
“Fauci also wrote a friend in February 2020 to tell her that masks weren’t doing their job, which can be shown in his deposition—repeatedly confirmed on Mar 31. On Apr 3, he insisted that masks be worn despite being unable to provide even one research supporting his claim. Many people’s lives were damaged because they had to comply with the mandates.”
Schmitt said, “COVID despotism is born.”
As part of the general attorney’s case, Schmitt and his colleague in Louisiana, Jeff Landry, questioned Biden’s principal medical advisor under oath on Wednesday about his alleged role in collaborating with Big Tech to suppress communication regarding COVID-19.
In May, Schmitt and Landry sued the government, alleging that high-ranking authorities are conspiring with social media behemoths like Meta [Facebook], Twitter, and YouTube “under the pretense of battling disinformation” to increase online censorship.
They hope to find evidence that Fauci coordinated with Facebook and others to quell rumors that the virus was created in a facility in Wuhan, China.
“Defendant Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top federal government official, coordinated with others to conduct a campaign to undermine the lab-leak hypothesis in early 2020,” Landry and Schmitt wrote. Through middlemen like EcoHealth Alliance, led by Dr. Peter Daszak, former NIAID director Anthony Fauci financed potentially dangerous “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
According to their reasoning, “if the lab-leak scenario were proved, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Daszak may be possibly involved in supporting the research on viruses that produced the COVID-19 pandemic and killed millions of people worldwide.”
In a tweet sent on Wednesday, immediately following the deposition, Schmitt said that Fauci “knew the Lab Leak idea had substance, but it’d come back to him & attempted to instantly discredit it.”
“Every day for all those years, I’ve given it all that I have, and I’ve never left anything on the field,” Fauci concluded in his final White House news conference before he retires next month after a 50-year career.
I put all I had into it,” he said.
It has been reported that Fox News has contacted the NIAID.