Good Guy w/ Gun Stops Active Shooter in Vegas; Police Cover It Up

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Good Guy w/ Gun Stops Active Shooter in Vegas; Police Cover It Up

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) An armed man wearing a tactical helmet used his rifle to force his way into a luxury condo in Las Vegas last week but was confronted and stopped by an armed employee, as captured on security footage.

Despite the widespread video of the attempted mass shooting, the Las Vegas Police Department has actively refused to confirm that the man was stopped by a citizen with a gun, RedState reported.

“It’s indisputable that an armed civilian stopped an active shooter last week,” wrote Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, in a tweet thread noting the media blackout.

“You almost certainly haven’t heard about it,” she added. “Why? Because Las Vegas Police have gone out of their way to downplay it.”

Swearer then proceeded to outline the basic details of the story as reported by local media.

“Two people involved. One shot and injured,” she wrote. “That’s it. Pretty standard crime, right?”

Swearer noted, however, that none of the reports indicated how the assailant was stopped.

“Was it a rugby tackle? Persuasion? Sorcery? An Old Testament-style act of Divine Intervention and super-natural strength?” she asked.

Despite the publicly available footage, “the police are just pretending like they have no idea what happened,” she continued.

She asked the Heritage Foundation’s news arm, the Daily Signal, to assist in asking the police to confirm basic details of the event that were readily verifiable with the security footage.

They asked for information “like whether they can confirm the gunman was shot by an employee, and what the employee’s role is at the building,” Swearer said, noting that the request was made four days after the incident, and the information requested posed no risk to the investigation.

Nonetheless, the LVPD proceeded to stonewall reporters, insisting that they undertake a lengthy and burdensome paperwork process instead of supplying simple answers.

 “They refused to simply state the obvious—an armed civilian thwarted an active shooter,” she said.

According to RedState, the reason for the cover-up may be that law-enforcement fear Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson may wind up charging the employee rather than the would-be assailant.

“Is Las Vegas PD keeping this quiet because the district attorney (a Democrat) might charge the employee for shooting the active shooter in the back as he’s leaving the building?” wrote RedState’s Bonchie. “That would be ludicrous. I wouldn’t think any person in any state has a reasonable expectation to allow an active shooter that has already opened fire back out onto a busy street.”

Another Damning Text Message Ties Biden to Hunter’s Biz Dealings w/ China

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(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A new WhatsApp message from embattled first son Hunter Biden to his CCP-linked business partners once again directly tied President Joe Biden to his son’s shady overseas dealings, which growing evidence indicates netted the Bidens boatloads of allegedly illicit funds in exchange for privileged access to the White House.

“The Biden’s are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this [partnership],” Hunter Biden wrote in a 2017 message to an associate with CEFC, an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, according to documents released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.

The “Chairman” reportedly referred to Ye Jianming, “a Chinese billionaire tied to a CCP-intelligence gathering agency,” who had stated that his company’s vision for China “is to obtain overseas resources and serve the national strategy.”

The day after Hunter Biden sent the message, “One of Hunter’s shell companies, OWASCO PC, received $100,000 from CEFC,” documents released by the House committee showed.

“We are all saying the same thing I hope. Please let’s put this to bed tonight sign officially tomorrow (or anytime as late tonight as you want) and get to work,” Hunter Biden wrote in the message sent the previous day.

“I am tired of this Kevin,” he wrote, using the CEFC official’s cover name. “I can make S5M in salary at any law firm in America. If you think this is about money it’s not.”

After boasting that “The Biden’s are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this [partnership],” Hunter Biden tossed a dismissive, “Please let’s not quibble over peanuts.”

To which constitutional scholar and law professor Jonathan Turley reminded, “There are five million peanuts to be exact,” referring to the alleged Biden payout.

The latest text message to implicate Biden directly in his son’s businesses dealings, something the president has repeatedly denied, comes on the heels of a message from Hunter Biden dropping his father’s name to threaten Chinese businessman and Communist Party official Henry Zhao, which the House committee revealed last week.

“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” the message warned. “Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.”

“As more facts come to light, it becomes even more evident that the Bidens put China and their interests first and America last,” tweeted the Oversight Committee on Tuesday.

White House Engaged in Ongoing Covert Effort to Make Biden Seem Coherent

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White House Engaged in Ongoing Covert Effort to Make Biden Seem Coherent

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s handlers have consistently needed to clean up the mess he leaves with a trail of public gaffes and blunders, but the White House comms team has done its best to minimize what appears in media.

In a covert nod to its fake news collaborators, the White House’s official transcripts of Biden’s speeches and remarks have routinely been heavily edited in an attempt to make the stumbler-in-chief appear coherent, according to a deep dive by the Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl.

“Sometimes, the transcript throws in a [sic] when Biden misspeaks. Other times, the stenographer adds a bracketed correction to Biden’s error,” Curl reported. “And every once in a while, the White House just cuts out Biden’s bizarre word salads altogether.”

Some of the more egregiously sic edits from just the last month included covering for Biden botching “… transgester [sic] Americans — transgender Americans serving in the United States military …” (June 10, 2023) and “Last summer, I had the honor of bestowing the Presidential Meda- — Medal of Freemon [sic] — Freedom on distinguished Americans …” (June 16, 2023).

When the mumbling and bumbling become too extreme to fix with a quick [sic], White House comms handlers are reduced to “striking through whatever random word Biden actually said and bracketing what he should have said,” Curl reported.

“Forty million — 40 million Americans already drinking water that thousands of farmers rely on for — for integration [irrigation]. And 40 million count on that river and so do the farmers….” (June 19, 2023).

“Mary Robinson [Barra], the Chairman of the Board of General Motors …” (June 19, 2023).

“The ticket seller, SeatGreek [SeatGeek], is also set to give customers the option of seeing all-in, upfront prices …” (June 15, 2023).

While the White House works overtime to cover Biden’s tracks with edits to officials transcripts, the president’s public stumbles remain beyond their control. That might explain, at least in part, why recent polling showed likely voters expressing grave concern over Biden’s mental decline and his ability to serve a second term.

Nearly 70% of all respondents to a Quinnipiac University poll thought Biden is too old to effectively serve another four-year-term as president. The official total of 66% included 43% of Democrats, 89% of Republicans and 68% of Independents.

“But the media appears to be covering for him,” Fox News’ Outnumbered noted, over a montage of recent Biden gaffes.

“Axios writing this,” the outlet reported. “Biden’s quirky aphorisms are sometimes weaponized by Republicans to portray the 80-year-old president as being in mental decline.”

6 Witnesses Can Confirm Garland Was Mastermind of Hunter Criminal Probe

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6 Witnesses Can Confirm Garland Was Mastermind of Hunter Criminal Probe

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing troubling allegations of lying regarding the independence of U.S. Attorney David Weiss in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden’s crimes, to which he pleaded guilty earlier this month.

Six individuals can confirm the allegations that Weiss did not have the authority to prosecute Hunter outside his home state of Delaware, explicitly contradicting previous sworn testimony from Garland stating the opposite, according to the Daily Caller.

The allegations were brought to light by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely during his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee. Just last week, the committee released approximately 400 pages of documents and testimonies, detailing allegations that the Biden administration attempted to interfere in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden.

Shapely presented evidence suggesting that Garland may have provided false information to Congress and the American people regarding the independence of the DOJ and Weiss’s role. Shapely informed congressional leaders that Weiss tried to bring more severe charges against Hunter in jurisdictions outside Delaware but was blocked by U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves for the D.C. district.

The Daily Caller reported that the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, where Hunter owed taxes, declined to participate in the federal prosecution of the President’s son. Ultimately, Shapely testified that Weiss was “not the deciding official.”

These revelations are particularly shocking as Garland, during a conversation with Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., in April 2022, stated that Weiss, appointed by former President Donald Trump, had complete independence. “He is the supervisor of this investigation,” Garland told the Tennessee senator.

According to the New York Post, Garland claimed he was committed to keep any political interference away from the probe.

“We put the investigation in the hands of a Trump appointee from the previous administration, who is the US attorney for the district of Delaware,” Garland added. “You have me as the attorney general, who is committed to the independence of the Justice Department from any influence from the White House in criminal matters.”

In March 2023, Garland, who currently faces threats of impeachment of his leftist weaponization of the DOJ, doubled down on his claims of independence. “The US attorney in Delaware has been advised that he has full authority to make those kind of referrals that you’re talking about or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it’s necessary. And I will assure that if he does, he will be able to do that,” Garland stated. 

Garland has yet to address the damning revelations.

Prison Officials Discovered Camera Malfunctions the Day Before Epstein’s Death

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Prison Officials Discovered Camera Malfunctions the Day Before Epstein’s Death

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was incarcerated at the time of his mysterious death, learned that surveillance cameras were malfunctioning the day before Epstein died—but did little to rectify the situation.

That’s according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s much-anticipated report on Epstein’s Aug. 9, 2019, death, which was released Tuesday.

Horowitz said in his report that the surveillance cameras around Epstein’s cell were antiquated analogue devices that were supposed to be stored on digital servers. But some time in late July, most of the cameras stopped recording—though they did continue to provide live video streams through the day Epstein died.

According to Horowitz, MCC officials learned of the malfunctions on Aug. 8, 2019, hours before Epstein’s death.

“MCC New York personnel determined that the DVR 2 system needed to be rebuilt to restore recording functionality. Despite the lack of recording functionality, this repair was not completed until after Epstein’s death,” the inspector general said.

Horowitz said his staff interviewed an MCC technician, who started to repair the cameras on Aug. 8, 2019, but did not finish his work. The technician told the inspector general he had “no idea” why he did not stay at the facility to resolve the problem that day.

“But he noted for the OIG that he had not historically been required to stay after his shift ended to work on such matters, and even if he had begun working on the DVR that day, he would not have completed the work on August 8 due to the time the rebuilding process takes,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz also said the technician’s immediate supervisor, the facility manager, was on leave that week and therefore was not told on Aug. 8 about the DVR recording failure. Another high-ranking prison official was told about the problematic cameras, too, but he thought the technician was going to fix the problem.

“The Electronics Technician told the OIG there must have been some miscommunication because he did not say he was going to work overtime and resolve the problem that same evening since he knew the problem could not be fixed in one evening,” Horowitz said. “The Electronics Technician told the OIG that, in hindsight, he should have stayed at the institution to begin work on the problem that same day.”

The technician was going to fix the cameras again on Aug. 9, 2019, but he did not have access to the DVR room.

He finally obtained access to that room around 6 a.m. on Aug. 10, but he was interrupted by a “body alarm”—the prison guards had finally discovered Epstein dead in his cell, allegedly from hanging himself the night before.

The FBI’s forensic team later took the surveillance equipment, but was unable to retrieve most of the contents, according to Horowitz.

“The Digital Forensics Analysis Unit found that the system contained three faulty hard drives,” the inspector general said. “The FBI forensic reports state that the three drives were repaired by an FBI Advanced Data Recovery Specialist, but the DVR was never able to be assembled successfully.”

Horowitz also noted in his report that the Bureau of Prisons had contracted a company to replace MCC’s entire surveillance system for more than $730,000 in 2018.

But the work still wasn’t complete by August 2021, and the MCC was “temporarily” shuttered in October of that year.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Gov. Kathy Hochul Declares New York a Sanctuary State for ‘Trans’ Kids

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Gov. Kathy Hochul Declares New York a Sanctuary State for ‘Trans’ Kids

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) With the leftist stroke of a pen, New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul turned the state into a sanctuary for transgender children and their families, shortly before she attended the infamous “We’re coming for your children” Pride March on Saturday.

The legislation will prohibit New York authorities from cooperating with other states’ investigations into parents who want to physically mutilate their children through surgeries, drugs and hormones, Timcast reported.

“A police officer may not arrest any person for performing or aiding in the performance of gender-affirming care within this state, or in procuring or aiding in the procurement of gender-affirming care in this state if the gender-affirming care is performed in accordance with the provisions of any other applicable law of this state,” the legislation said.

The bill would also stop the existing family court law from separating those kinds of parents from their children and, therefore, allow them to continue doing what they are doing.

“A law of another state that authorizes a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on the parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming care shall not be enforced or applied in a case pending in a court in this state,” the bill added.

Aside from the pro-trans law, Hochul also signed three new laws that would update legal documents with an “outdated and stigmatizing terminology” that applies to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Additionally, the leftist Hochul appointed the first “trans male” judge to the New York State of Claims and signed an amendment to the State Technology Law that would force the New York State employees to use “preferred pronouns.”

“I stand together with champions of this movement who have joined us today to say no more,” Hochul said about the bill signing. “We will give you the template, rest of the country. We will show you what you need to do.”

However, New York is not the only state that actively pushes transgender orthodoxy through government edict. Colorado passed a “transgender tourism” law and became another sanctuary state for the LGBT crowd, while leftist California did the same.

Supreme Court Shuts Down Trump Documents Case tied to D.C. Hotel

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Supreme Court Shuts Down Trump Documents Case tied to D.C. Hotel

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a case related to leftist Democrat lawmakers’ dubious attempt to gain access to documents related to a Washington, D.C., hotel formerly owned by Donald Trump during his presidency.

The lawsuit was dismissed by Democrats last month after the Biden Justice Department appealed a lower court’s decision to the Supreme Court.

According to The Hill, both the DOJ and lawmakers requested that the Supreme Court dismiss the case as “moot.”

Consequently, the justices vacated the lower court’s ruling and provided instructions on how to dismiss the case. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented from the order, proposing an alternative method for dismissing the case.

The case garnered significant attention due to Democrats’ pursuit of legal action against Trump. It centered on the question of whether lawmakers had the legal right to sue for access to private documents.

“Three weeks after the Court granted review, respondents filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in district court,” the Biden DOJ wrote to the Court. “Although that notice does not of its own force terminate proceedings in this Court, respondents’ abandonment of their claims does render this case moot.”

As The Hill reported, Democrats agreed to have the case tossed, despite previous calls not to have the Court involved. 

“Here, respondents do not appear to have formally withdrawn their Section 2954 request or explicitly renounced any attempt to seek the disputed documents in the future,” Democrats wrote. “But under the circumstances, their notice in the district court and letter to this Court should be regarded as a definitive abandonment of their claims.” 

Democrats dubiously claimed that the Trump organization’s contract with the General Services Administration to turn the Old Post Office Pavillion into a luxury hotel raised conflicts of interest. 

Trump owned the hotel until 2022.

Hunter’s Shocking Child Support Settlement: Name Ban and Payment Drop

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Hunter’s Shocking Child Support Settlement: Name Ban and Payment Drop

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden, has reportedly reached a settlement with Lunden Roberts, the mother of his four-year-old daughter, over child support payments.

The settlement agreement resulted in the reduction of Hunter’s mandated payments from $20,000 to $5,000. In an explicable twist, Hunter also prohibited his daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, from using the Biden last name, as reported by the Daily Mail.

While the full details of the settlement were not publicly disclosed, the Daily Mail reported that Navy Joan’s upbringing is to be kept secret.

News of the settlement emerged a week after attorneys for Roberts dismissed a report by the New York Post that hinted that the case was nearing a resolution.

“The case is sealed, and these are financial terms that should never be disclosed,” said Clint Lancaster, Roberts’s attorney in response to the report.

According to the Daily Mail, Hunter claimed to be unemployed and without any income in depositions.

Roberts had sought to have her daughter use the highly recognizable last name “Biden,” but Hunter’s legal team rejected the request. The reason behind Hunter’s refusal — which is supported by President Joe Biden as the family refuses recognize the child — remain unknown.

The Post reported that Hunter initially denied being Navy Joan’s father but later recanted his claims after a DNA test in 2019 confirmed his paternity.

Lancaster stated that Hunter’s deposition played a significant role in Roberts’s decision to settle the case. “It was significant that Lunden was there,” Lancaster added, referring to Hunter’s deposition. “I believe the settlement is important to Hunter Biden, but we have concerns that Hunter would use it to further his own agenda… Settlement negotiations often involve more than meets the eye.”

The settlement, which follows years of legal disputes between the two parents, comes in the wake of Hunter’s highly scrutinized plea deal with the DOJ regarding his failure to pay taxes on time and his purchase of a weapon.

Trump, DeSantis Rivalry Deepens w/ Dueling N.H. Campaign Events

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Trump, DeSantis Rivalry Deepens w/ Dueling N.H. Campaign Events

(Headline USA) The rivalry between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump deepened Tuesday as the two leading Republican White House candidates lobbed shots at each other during dueling events in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire.

Addressing a town hall in Hollis, DeSantis vowed to “actually” build the U.S.-Mexico border wall that Trump tried but failed to complete as president, often in conflict from Democrats. He also pledged to tear down Washington’s traditional power centers in ways that Trump fell short.

Speaking later at a Republican women’s luncheon in Concord, Trump countered that DeSantis was being forced to settle for second place in the primary and accused the governor of supporting cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs as a way to tame federal spending.

Beyond the rhetoric, the conflicting events demonstrated each candidate’s evolving strategy. DeSantis took extensive audience questions — a trademark in New Hampshire politics that he eschewed during his previous visit to the state, drawing criticisms that he was stilted and overly scripted.

Trump, meanwhile, offered a free-wheeling speech for more than hour.

DeSantis, asked about people who had twice voted for Trump because of his promises to “drain the swamp” in Washington, used his answer to draw some of his sharpest contrasts yet with the former president.

“He didn’t drain it. It’s worse today than it’s ever been,” DeSantis said. He added that such promises don’t go far enough because a subsequent president “can just refill it.”

“I want to break the swamp,” DeSantis said, pledging to take power out of Washington by instructing Cabinet agencies to halve the number of employees there.

DeSantis has tried to gain ground on Trump by questioning the former president’s continued hold on the national Republican party. At his town hall, the governor slammed the GOP’s “culture of losing” under Trump and mentioned the “massive red wave” that many in the GOP predicted but that never materialized nationally in last year’s midterm elections.

“We had a red wave in Florida,” DeSantis said, noting he easily won reelection last fall. “But that’s because we delivered results in Florida.”

Many leading Republicans remain fiercely loyal to Trump, but there is some evidence that the attacks against the former president are resonating. Speaking about Trump on Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said, “Can he win that election? Yeah, he can win that election.”

“The question is, is he the strongest to win the election?” McCarthy continued on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “I don’t know that answer.” He clarified later in the day to the conservative news outlet Breitbart that Trump “is stronger today than he was in 2016.”

In his own speech, Trump noted that polls show him with large primary leads. He seized on DeSantis saying that, while Social Security and other programs need to be guaranteed for older adults, there may be work “in a bipartisan way to figure out how do you strengthen this” when it comes to younger people.

“You can bet he’ll be doing it later,” Trump said of cuts to the programs. “And he’ll be doing it to you.”

Trump also vowed to “drain the swamp once and for all” but used the slogan more to criticize President Joe Biden than the Florida governor.

“You can’t drain the swamp if you’re part of the swamp, and Joe Biden and other opponents, many of them, are all owned, controlled, bought and paid for, 100%,” Trump said.

The former president also largely echoed DeSantis’ sentiments in promising that “this election will be the end of the world for the corrupt political class in our nation’s capital.”

DeSantis was also asked about the J6 election integrity rally and responded, “If it’s about relitigating things that happened two or three years ago, we’re going to lose.”

“I had nothing to do with what happened that day. Obviously, I didn’t enjoy seeing it,” DeSantis said. “But we’ve got to go forward on this stuff. We cannot be looking backwards.”

That, too, clashed with Trump, who repeated Tuesday that he was denied a second term by election fraud.

The candidates’ simultaneous visits highlighted the role that New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation GOP primary state, will play in deciding the next Republican presidential nominee. Much of the focus of the early primary has been on Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical Christians are dominant.

Spending time in New Hampshire, by contrast, gives the candidates were testing their messages in front of a more libertarian-leaning electorate.

Trump’s first-place finish in New Hampshire’s 2016 Republican primary, after losing Iowa to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, helped propel him to party dominance. But his Democratic rivals won the state in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.

Before his speech Tuesday, Trump announced that his New Hampshire team features 150-plus dedicated activists and organizers throughout the state’s 10 counties.

Sabrina Antle, from the town of Henniker, said she couldn’t afford to attend the Concord lunch. She and her 9-year-old daughter tried to see the former president later in Manchester, but that event reached capacity before they got in.

“I’m a Trumper but I wouldn’t be upset with Ron DeSantis because I think he’d do a stand up job,” Antle said. “I just don’t know if he has the attitude Trump has, just the assertiveness.”

DeSantis’ campaign angered some members of the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women by scheduling his town hall around the same time Trump was addressing the group’s luncheon. It called DeSantis’ event “an attempt to steal focus from” its lunch, noting that other presidential candidates scheduled around it.

That didn’t stop DeSantis, who at the town hall talked up the new immigration policy proposal he released Monday in South Texas — betting that the issue can energize GOP voters, even those who are 2,000 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We’re actually going to build the wall,” DeSantis said of Trump’s failed pledges to do so. “A lot of politicians chirp. They make grandiose promises and then fail to deliver the actual results. The time for excuses is over. Now is the time to deliver results and finally get the job done.”

But the Florida governor also tailored his Tuesday message to New Hampshire, noting how tougher border security could eventually help limit the ravages of opioid addiction, which have hit the state particularly hard, even as deaths from overdoses have climbed all over the country.

He promised the “most assertive” policy against drug cartels “any administration has ever had.”

”We have to do it,” DeSantis said “because it will save lives.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Lawmakers Probe whether Feds, Fauci Suppressed Wuhan Origins Theory

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Lawmakers Probe whether Feds, Fauci Suppressed Wuhan Origins Theory

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) A U.S. House Committee tasked with delving into the origins of COVID-19 plan a new hearing to discuss an investigation into whether the federal government suppressed information related to the theory that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab in China.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup announced the hearing, which will be held July 11. The committee has conducted transcribed interviews with every U.S. contributor to the now infamous “Proximal Origins” document, a paper Wenstrup says was pushed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the federal COVID response, to discredit the Wuhan lab theory.

Since then, though, more evidence has emerged backing the Wuhan theory, including more details into China’s response as well reports from the FBI and U.S. Department of Energy saying that the Wuhan lab is the most likely source of COVID.

“These scientists have essential information to share with Americans about the cover-up of the origins of COVID-19 and the potential suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and other public health authorities,” Wenstrup said. “A complete look at all the facts is necessary, and the truth is nonnegotiable.”

Dr. Francis Collins is the former director of the National Institutes of Health.

Wenstrup said the hearing will evaluate “the potential conflicts of interest and suppression of scientific discourse by the National Institutes of Health surrounding the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ (Proximal Origins’) correspondence.”

The Wuhan lab theory was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory by mainstream media and federal health officials, namely Fauci.

As The Center Square previously reported, in 2020, the Associated Press called the idea a “myth.” The same year, the New York Times called it a “conspiracy theory,” and The Washington Post called it a “fringe theory.”

Social media companies like Facebook were taking down posts in 2021 that claimed COVID-19 was man-made. Fauci also took several media interviews where he blasted those considering the Wuhan theory.

The inquiry is further complicated since federal health funding dollars went to the Wuhan lab in question. Whether those dollars impacted any COVID gain-of-function research and the extent of Fauci’s involvement remain under dispute and could become a key part of the upcoming hearing.

“With insufficient evidence in hand and Dr. Fauci’s prompting as protection, ‘Proximal Origins’ seemingly became one of the most egregious cover-ups of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Wenstrup said.

“Robust scientific discourse was abandoned in pursuit of a preferred, coordinated narrative. The origination of a virus that killed seven million people worldwide requires a thorough and comprehensive investigation – not a snap judgment based on questionable motives.”

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