Anthony Fauci should explain '$3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory'

[mystery-ak]

 By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Monday, April 27, 2020

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

President Donald Trump’s legal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, in a recent chat on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, suggested a good U.S. attorney general move about now would be to investigate key members of the past Barack Obama administration on the Wuhan, China, laboratory, to see what they knew and when they knew it.

And then he mentioned Dr. Anthony Fauci specifically.

And then he accused the prior Team Obama of sending $3.7 million to the lab in 2014 — at a time when that same Team Obama had banned the funding of any lab that was involved in virus experimentation.

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[mountaineer]

Rudy tweets:

Rudy W. Giuliani  @RudyGiuliani
Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China?
Such grants were prohibited in 2014.
Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?
4:53 PM · Apr 26, 2020

I think when he says 2017, he means Obama approved the thing in 2016, since this wasn't a gift from Trump.
 I was under the impression the money went to China earlier, either 2015 or 2016. 

[Smokin Joe]

The research for the Nature paper was done in  2014 before Obama defunded the lab in North Carolina, the two Chinese scientists returned to Wuhan. The paper was published in 2015.  https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence


Funding for China went out after that shutdown.