Musk Responds to News That Fauci's Daughter Worked at Twitter During COVID Outbreak
Anthony Fauci’s daughter worked at Twitter during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to newly released deposition documents.
Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s Republican attorney general, took to Twitter to share the deposition from 23 November that lasted hours. John Sauer, the the solicitor general of Missouri, conducted the questioning.
Fauci was asked about his interactions with social media executives and Sauer mentioned Twitter.
“Well, right now, no, but when my daughter worked at Twitter, I was on a first-name basis with her,” Fauci said.
His daughter worked as a software engineer.
He was asked if he ever discussed content with her and items that were posted on social media. He said he did not. He said she was not interested in the origins of the virus and ended her career at Twitter over a year ago.
Charlie Kirk, the popular Trump supporter, tweeted, “It has just been revealed that Anthony Fauci’s daughter worked at Twitter during the pandemic. Because of course she did.”
Elon Musk, who just purchased Twitter, responded, “Small world…”
THE DEPOSITION
The transcript covers hours of questioning. But a preliminary look by The Trends Journal has turned up some interesting testimony.
Fauci drew memory blanks when it came to highly controversial grants he oversaw as Director of NIAID (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases).
Fauci said he was familiar with a Government policy adopted in 2014 halting “gain-of-function” virus experiments.
He acknowledged knowing that the government policy permitted exceptions to the ban, only “if the head of a U.S. Government funding agency determines that the research is urgently needed to protect the public health or national security.”
Fauci said he recalled that there were a number of instances where exceptions to the policy were approved.
But the NIAID director denied having any specific role that he could recall in approving any exceptions.
This, despite the fact that the policy required exceptions to be approved only at the highest levels.
Fauci specifically said he couldn’t recall approving exceptions for Ecohealth Alliance, a research firm headed by Peter Daszak, which received funding from NAID between 2014 and 2019.
Missouri AG Schmitt noted some other info brought out by Fauci’s recent court deposition in a Twitter thread on Monday. No doubt in the coming days more scrutiny of the deposition will uncover other revelations.
Fauci was compelled to testify in the Missouri vs. Biden case, which was brought by several state Attorney Generals and other plaintiffs, alleging illegal and improper Government attempts to censor American Constitutional free speech protections, via collusion with large tech companies including Twitter, Facebook and Google.