Dr. "Categorically Untrue" Fauci’s assertion of innocence turns out to be … untrue.

I can’t help it if the American public is too stupid to understand nuance and really-super scientific stuff

Advocated for gain of function experimentation back in 2012 and, presumably still does today.

“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote in an article in  the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012—which was first reported by The Australian. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

Gain-of-function research involves extracting natural virus samples from animals and engineering them to infect humans for the development of therapeutics and vaccines.