OPINION:
In confessing that he conspired with Dr. Anthony Fauci to hide the Wuhan lab origin of the COVID-19 virus from former President Donald Trump and the American people, Dr. Robert Kadlec has called for accountability.
Congress and the Justice Department should take Dr. Kadlec up on his offer, while every presidential candidate should promise to bring Dr. Fauci and his co-conspirators to a quick and rough justice.
Dr. Kadlec is no slouch, no Cassidy Hutchinson-type secretary offering salacious gossip for 15 minutes of fame. As assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department Health and Human Services, Dr. Kadlec played a key role in developing the COVID-19 vaccine through Operation Warp Speed.
I met Dr. Kadlec in February 2020 at the dawn of the pandemic, as I began intense efforts at the White House to prepare our country for the Chinese whirlwind that might engulf us. In my first interaction, Bob was uncooperative. But he quickly changed his tune after a terse “don’t mess with Trump’s White House” exchange.
Bob was one of the few in our health care bureaucracy who took the threat seriously early in the pandemic. I, along with the president himself, were among the few in the White House who grasped COVID-19’s potential seriousness. Together, Bob and I would do some good work shoring up our personal protective equipment supply chains and advancing initiatives like those involving COVID-19 treatments, e.g., monoclonal antibodies.
I’m not shocked by Dr. Kadlec’s confession that Dr. Fauci lied and Americans died. I have documented Dr. Fauci’s serial treacheries in my White House memoirs, “In Trump Time” and “Taking Back Trump’s America.” However, I am shocked that Dr. Kadlec, a former Air Force physician, did not do more to expose what became the deadliest cover-up in American history.
Here’s how I explained the catastrophic consequences in my memoirs:
“If Fauci had simply come clean, President Trump would have demanded that President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party immediately reveal the truth about the virus and, most importantly, release the original genome of the virus China’s scientists had genetically engineered.
“I cannot overstate how important this single act of transparency on the part of Communist China would have been. The quasi-vaccines that have been developed to fight the Wuhan virus have turned out to be both primitive and dangerous instruments. These mRNA quasi-vaccines are not true and safe vaccines like those for smallpox and polio but, as Dr. [Robert] Malone and I have explained [in The Washington Times], they are merely leaky and non-durable gene-therapy technologies with a wide range of very dangerous side effects.
“If, on the other hand, with the benefit of the original genome, we had known from the beginning what we were up against, our vaccine strategy would have been far more complex, effective, and safe. Millions of lives around the world could have been saved.”
As Dr. Kadlec tells it to Sky News’ Sharri Markson, Dr. Fauci engineered his murderous cover-up to protect his reputation. He wanted to hide at all costs that he had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct its bioweapons research.
Dr. Fauci also wanted to conceal he had transferred cutting-edge “gain of function” technologies to Chinese researchers like the infamous Shi Zhengli. This so-called bat woman would use Dr. Fauci’s Frankenstein tools to turn benign viruses from nature into microscopic monsters capable of killing humans in the most agonizing ways.
Yet there is more to this story than Dr. Kadlec lets on. Dr. Fauci, together with Dr. Francis Collins, his boss at the National Institutes of Health, no doubt engineered the cover-up as part of a broader push to develop a vaccine that would earn billions of dollars for Dr. Fauci’s benefactors in the pharmaceutical industry.
As for Dr. Kadlec, Bob would agree with me in private that hydroxychloroquine — a Trump favorite — was one of our cheapest and most effective COVID-19 treatments. Yet Dr. Kadlec would never go public with that view, much less pressure the FDA’s Stephen Hahn or Dr. Fauci to stand down on their hydroxy opposition.
In the meantime, legacy media pundits, led by CNN anchor John Berman, shamelessly peddled Dr. Fauci’s hydroxy hysteria. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, denied hydroxychloroquine by their own government and afraid of the medicine, would needlessly die.
In the end, hydroxy hysteria was just one more way for Dr. Fauci, the pharmaceutical giants and Dr. Kadlec himself to advance their broader vaccine agenda. Once the Food and Drug Administration had pulled the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine — against the direct orders of Mr. Trump — the FDA could then authorize the vaccine.
In closing, lest anyone question the claim that the vaccine itself has, on the net, harmed far more people than it has helped, let me point you to the excellent work of analysts like Ed Dowd, the aforementioned Dr. Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Steven Hatfill, who have collectively documented the carnage.
• Peter Navarro served in the Trump White House as manufacturing czar and chief China strategist. This column originally appeared at http://peternavarro.substack.com.
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