You’re being intentionally obtuse... you must be joking... I SAID NOTHING ABOUT BANNON AT ALL!!! Fauci’s comments are not disputed. You can interpret what he meant along with everyone else, but he did say it and Trump enacted the Tavel ban 10 days later and was widely criticized for it.
“...once the lab-leak theory began to circulate in January, 2020, China's 'investments' in the United States paid off, and the entire liberal media industrial complex furiously peddled the 'natural origin' theory, while boldly proclaiming the lab origin hypothesis a 'debunked conspiracy theory.’
“That was until the last two weeks, starting with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) shredding Anthony Fauci over the NIH funding US research within the Wuhan lab, followed by a Wall Street Journal report that three WIV lab workers were hospitalized in December 2019 with COVID-19 symptoms.”
“And with that, the lab-leak hypothesis was legitimized almost overnight - sending liberal outlets scrambling to quietly append their previous reporting...”
“With more evidence pointing to the possibility the virus responsible for over 2 million deaths worldwide may have escaped a Wuhan lab, international focus has centered on China's actions and lack of cooperation over the last year.” “If this investigation leads to more proof that the coronavirus originated there, then China would be exposed even more [that] it was lying, engaged in a disinformation campaign, slandering the West and Western media and politicians,” a Baltic official told the Washington Examiner. “So, in this case, it’s significant, it’s quite significant.”