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OPINION Published March 5, 2023 8:00am EST

This is the biggest scandal in

American history
This is a scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people

By Newt Gingrich | Gingrich360.com

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We are living through the largest, deadliest scandal in American history, but the elite media
refuses to connect the dots and analyze it.

COVID-19, a disease no one disputes came from Wuhan, China, has killed more than 1.1
million Americans and more than 38 million people worldwide. It has left millions of others
with chronic health problems.

Because of the teachers’ unions and totally misguided, destructive public health policies,
children who were under virtually no risk from COVID-19 have lost at least a year of
education. Many children are suffering from depression and other mental health
challenges from the forced isolation and lack of social contact.

Now, it is becoming more clear that much of this pain was avoidable – and the result of
powerful government employees protecting themselves. As Jarrett Stepman in The Daily
Signal wrote:

DAN GAINOR: MEDIA LIED ABOUT COVID LAB LEAK, AND 4 OTHER THINGS THE PRESS
GOT WRONG

"In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were
labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, ‘bonkers,’ and a racist.

"Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped
‘misinformation’ labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the government.

"So according to the standard set in 2020, the Department of Energy just came out as a
racist purveyor of misinformation this week.

"The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that, according to a classified intelligence
report provided to the White House and Congress, the Department of Energy concluded
that the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a lab leak.

‘"The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant
because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S.
national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research,’ the Wall
Street Journal report said."

President Donald Trump called it "the Chinese Virus" and was intensely attacked.
Somehow word "Chinese" was deemed racist. No one disputes that the virus originated in
China . But calling it COVID-19 rather than the Chinese virus was more polite. (After all, it’s
important to indicate an appropriate sensitivity to the totalitarian dictatorship that is trying
to defeat the United States and become the world’s leading power).

We now know this censorship and speech silencing was part of a systematic effort of
senior scientists to mislead the American people. When COVID-19 first became a threat in
early 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci already knew the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) had funded research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth
Alliance. He knew the WIV was a subgrantee of EcoHealth Alliance – and that EcoHealth
Alliance was not in compliance with its grant reporting. Specifically, the organization was
out of compliance for a project that NIAID knew could potentially make novel bat-borne
coronaviruses much more dangerous.

Fauci knew all this .

According to Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who is chairman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Accountability, on Feb. 1, 2020, "Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and at least eleven
other scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19. On the conference call,
Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the WIV and
may have been intentionally genetically manipulated."

The scientists decided to remain silent to avoid controversy (which would have ultimately
fallen back on themselves).

So, the same experts who are paid by the American people and given tens of billions of
dollars to invest in research decided that they would deliberately mislead the American
people.

This perfectly captures the arrogance of the aristo-bureaucrats, who believe they are
intellectually and morally superior to the people to whom they are supposed to be
accountable. They believe they have the right and duty to censor what we think and say –
and to feed us falsehoods in the name of some higher duty.

This scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people is
compounded by the absolute failure of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Why there has not been a scathing and thorough investigation – and set of
hearings on the absolute inability of the bureaucrats in Atlanta to do their jobs – and the
general failure of the public health system across the country is a mystery to me. This lack
of introspection or investigation should itself be a scandal.

Driven by the economic impact of the Chinese virus, the American government spent
trillions of dollars propping up the economy, sparking inflation, massively increasing the
national debt, and permitting hundreds of billions in theft and corruption.

Finally, there has been no serious effort to hold the Chinese Communist dictatorship
accountable for the damage it has done around the world. There is ample precedent for
holding governments responsible for the damage they have done to others (the Lockerbie
bombing, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, 9/11, and other cases).

The Chinese Communists have continuously focused on stopping us from understanding

the origins of the pandemic. As Dave Boyer reported in the Washington Times, FBI Director
Christopher A. Wray confirmed his agency believes the COVID-19 pandemic likely started
from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. He told Fox News on Tuesday that "the FBI has for quite
some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab
incident in Wuhan… Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese
government-controlled lab.

As Boyer reported, "Mr. Wray also slammed Beijing for stonewalling international efforts to
find out what happened. ‘I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it
seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart, and obfuscate the work here, the
work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are
doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody,’ he said."

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Dr. Anthony Fauci accusing the GOP of "character assassination" masquerading as oversight. (Getty Images)

Clearly there ought to be a mechanism for making the Chinese Communist dictatorship
pay COVID-19 victims for the disaster it caused. One step might be a COVID-19 tariff on all
Chinese imports (the proceeds of which would go into a COVID-19 Compensation Fund
that every American family affected by the pandemic could apply to).

Other countries could be urged to establish similar tariffs. Then Xi Jinping and his
dictatorship would learn that lying, covering up, and hiding the truth has enormous costs
for those guilty of killing millions and forcing the spending of trillions.

This scandal is so large, and covers so many areas, it will be a major factor in politics and
government for the next decade. It will go down in history as a turning point in our lives
and the life of our country.

We just need to decide what direction we turn: toward clarity and accountability, or toward
lies and chaos.

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Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999 and a candidate for
the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He is chairman of Gingrich 360 .

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