questionable credibility...Dr. Fauci has not changed one bit over the 30+ years he's been heading the NIAID, and deserves all the accolades he's received over those years...from Republicans and Democrats, both...in fact, it was G.W. Bush who bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on him. He earned the trust of the majority of Americans during this pandemic...he "fast tracked" our life-saving mRNA vaccines into clinical trials just 2 days after China released the genetic sequence for COVID-19...he cut through the Trump HHS/FDA bureaucracy to get approvals for universities and private industry to start developing and producing test kits that actually worked during the first few months of the pandemic....and told the American people the TRUTH about what was going on, when his 'Boss' was "Slow Playing the Virus" and pushing useless remedies, like HCQ and Bleach....for that, he earned a target on his back from DJT and all his enablers...that's the only thing he did wrong...i.e. go against Trump who never passes up a chance to be vindictive.
Now, as to M. Montagnier's claim of the virus being "deliberately created" in the Wuhan Lab...again, I copied and pasted what others objected to, so be sure to email them as well on this...but I do indeed agree that the wording provides fertile ground for some people to (and I've seen it on this board) claim that COVID-19 was weaponized in the lab for the specific purpose of being released into the world. The word "deliberate" has implications...and the least of them is an "accident"...in fact, IMO those two words don't work well together at all. It was my take that it was Montagnier's intent to convey such a nefarious and 'deliberate' attempt by China's Wuhan Lab.
if you perceive his meaning to be something on the order of 'deliberately "Risky" research', I can see where you might cobble that concept together...the work that is done in Wuhan...Belgium and the U.S. is indeed very risky...but for a purpose...to keep us ahead of 'Mother Nature's' natural processes that can threaten our very lives. The related issue of "GOF" is, IMO, too esoteric for us to debate...thus far, there is no conclusive evidence of such activity, and for sure, our NIH did not authorize such research at Wuhan...although in 2017, the Trump admin eliminated the 'pause in GOF research that was instituted by the Obama admin in 2014...so...we're left with theories, but no evidence of any 'accidental' by-product of Wuhan research being the cause of COVID-19...until China cooperates.
One more time...the purpose of my post was to counter the assertion by JFK, Jr. and M. Montagnier that Dr. Fauci was guilty of wrong-doing wrt COVID-19...I'll be happy to do it again.