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🦠💸David Morens: Smoking Gun of 'Lab Origin' of COVID with Guilty Plea! ➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿ Years of emphatic denials that U.S. taxpayers never funded gain-of-function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have met their match in a federal courtroom. On August 18, 2026, David Morens—long-time senior adviser to Anthony Fauci—pleaded guilty to conspiring to hide the very paper trail those denials tried to bury. ✏️Henry Kamens is a columnist and expert on Central Asia and the Caucasus. ➡️Morens admitted in federal court that he and allies funnelled sensitive emails about the cancelled EcoHealth bat-coronavirus grant tied to Wuhan and efforts to restore it through his private Gmail. He now faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. The 2024 House Select Subcommittee report found serious weaknesses in NIH grant procedures and examined how these failures enabled EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak to fund dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan without sufficient oversight. EcoHealth violated its grant conditions by failing to report a potentially dangerous WIV experiment, used taxpayer money to facilitate coronavirus research characterized as gain-of-function, and failed to provide NIH with funded research. That is not a conspiracy theory anymore but a documented criminal guilty plea, and one that is receiving little coverage in the mainstream media. ➡️Senator Rand Paul repeatedly pressed Fauci on whether NIH funding of EcoHealth work at WIV included gain-of-function research. Fauci's responses were emphatic denials: "The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology." When Paul pressed, Fauci said: "Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly." Later, NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak acknowledged that under a generic definition the work could be considered GoF. The Congressional report concluded that SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged through a laboratory or research-related accident. The guilty plea proves high-level efforts to keep related communications out of public view. 🟦The June 2026 Office of the Director of National Intelligence release of classified/declassified material concerning COVID-19 origins showed evidence that a laboratory origin was suppressed. Mainstream coverage has been muted relative to the implications. However, according to the Associated Press, Morens admitted using private email to circumvent public records requirements concerning COVID-19 research grants. The ties between Big Pharma, the NIH, and US politicians mean that the whole house of cards might be affected by further revelations. The questions that once got you labelled a conspiracy theorist are now the ones the record itself refuses to let die. The cover-up is no longer a theory. It is a guilty plea. #COVID19 #LabOrigin #DavidMorens #Fauci #GainOfFunction #NIH #EcoHealth READ MORE ✅@NewEasternOutlook