The Other Fauci Aide Who Should Be Indicted: Who Is Greg Folkers?

The U.S. Department of Justice does not need to wait for Dr. David Morens to turn on his colleagues; the evidence to charge the next key adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci is already in the public record.

Greg Folkers was critical to the censorship operation at the heart of the COVID-19 response. As chief of staff at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Folkers oversaw operations for the agency’s $6 billion budget and later sought to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by conspiring with Dr. Morens and intentionally misspelling key phrases such as “g#in-of-function.”

In January 2020, he sent the first email to Fauci, warning that the NIAID had funded gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through grants it made to EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak’s organization. That research, Folkers cautioned, could be the source of COVID-19.

But instead of warning the public of the “lab leak” as it would come to be known, Folkers, Fauci and Morens initiated the cover-up.

Hours after Folkers’ initial warning, Fauci recruited virologists Kristian Andersen and Eddie Holmes to plant a cover story.

This conspiracy prompted “Proximal Origin,” the infamous Nature article that stated that it was “implausible” that the virus was “laboratory-based,” even though Andersen and his colleagues made over 50 direct statements that expressed their belief that a lab leak was the likely origin of the virus.

While that article became the basis to censor any dissidents who questioned the origins of the virus, Folkers, Morens and Fauci conspired to keep their role in the affair secret.