Well, your link puts the date as Dec. 19, 2017. Trump was in fact President on that date. He was inaugurated Jan. 20, 2017, so this was lifted about 11 months into the Trump era.
LOL....
To protect Trump?
You are correct. The 'pause' on GOF put in place under Obama in 2014 was lifted during the Trump administration - Dec. 2017.
Trump had to rely on the advice of the so-called experts. It doesn't help when you have an idiot like Faucet advising you.
It's nice to believe moronic conspiracy theories, that way you don't have to think much.
And who advised Trump to lift it? Trump doesn't know anything about GOF so you can assume the recommendation came from someone in the NIH.
Where did Fauci get the funds?
Have we seen the report outlining the results of the investigation?He did indeed. It was "inconclusive".
Biden Reportedly Receives Inconclusive Report About Covid Origins From Intelligence Agencies
In May, President Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to examine the origins of the outbreak that has claimed 4 million lives across the world.www.forbes.com
I guess whatever that means it gives him the political cover to say he at least tried to get to the bottom of it. But did anyone really believe that without China cooperating that anything conclusive would have been discovered?
@Captain Adverse summed it up nicely, but as evident by the responses seen here the left doesn't give a shit. But they should at least show their appreciation for you giving them something to ridicule when they have nothing else to offer.
Good Lord.
So Congress funded it
So you wanted to start a discussion on the fact that something isn't being discussed anymore.
We have an unclassified summary version of it.
Probably because there isn't any hard evidence to support the idea.
Seems a highly plausible theory of a sequence of events. That it was leaked from the Wuhan lab has many more facts behind it.
It would not be unreasonable for all the above, and others, to be held culpable for developing and then unleashing COVID on the world.
It is fascinating how this works for you. Obama in fact put a pause on the research, it was issued through the WH so we can assume Obama signed off on that order, and never lifted it. Despite that you said, "True, in that Obama "lifted" the ban a few days before leaving office." So you are directly blaming Obama, the person, for the lifting of the pause, and when that's done to Trump, blaming the President for what happens on his watch, it's "not a reasonable resort."Really?
If someone had the ability to know, as in was part of the actual process, or in some way was personally concerned about such things and made inquiries, then you would be right.
However, there are hundreds of agencies, departments, and other administrative sections in the US Government, all with sub-sections and other divisions. That's not even considering the Military.
It is impossible for the President to personally know everything that is being planned, conducted, discussed, and acted upon in all of those segments of the Administrative State.
The President is almost completely dependent on what those in charge of those segments are willing to pass on, rather than considering it something the President should NOT know for "plausible deniability."
Worse, keeping him out of the loop to allow blame to fall on him.
While it is the aspiration that "the buck stops here," the truth is that the Head of State "Mr. President" only knows what he is allowed to.
Therefore, when an agency "goes rogue," then seeking to blame the President is not a reasonable resort. IMO that is just typical scapegoating.
In Mr. Trump's case, we have all the evidence we need to show that not only were certain agencies hiding information from, and misinforming him, they were actively seeking to undermine him.
I would like (love) to know the answer definitively but we all know it came out of CHINA whether it was a lab leak where bats were being studied or it was from free range bats; so at this point in time that makes little difference.
I get it. When it's Trump, the buck does not stop on his desk, ever, if it's bad. It stops on some underling's desk, who he appointed, which isn't Trump's fault, obviously. He's just the President. If the economy booms, then "Trump" did that all by himself I'm pretty sure, like it was Trump who developed the vaccines. It's so obvious.
The American people are extraordinarily bulkanized at the moment they are being played against one another and the thing is with that it only lasts for a little while and then the people start to get the idea and I think that's on the verge of occurring here. There will always be the faithful and they will stand in line for their 347th coronavirus booster and possibly continue wearing masks for the rest of their lives
Nice rant about Trump.
