“Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America”
An article in the Daily Mail quotes the president and founder of WCW, Anthony Bellotti, as saying: "Our investigation has uncovered the real-life horror story of how a shady roadside zoo whose curator was an NIH animal experimenter shipped off bats to a deadly government virus lab overseen by Dr. Fauci to be infected with a coronavirus obtained directly from the Wuhan lab that experts believe caused COVID." [...] According to fact checkers at healthfeedback.org, Fox News’s Jesse Watters, who took over the primetime slot formerly occupied by Tucker Carlson, also began making claims about the work done on pathogens by NIAID at Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML) based on inaccurate or unsubstantiated assumptions in his November 1, 2023 primetime show. Watters posted an excerpt on his Facebook page in which he claimed "Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading" and calls for "Fauci and everybody up in Montana" to be locked up and refers to the WCW Project’s "expose" which cited as supporting evidence a study from 2018 by Van Doremalen et al. [...] Watters also stated, "In 2018, Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America" and "grabbed a dozen Egyptian fruit bats, threw them in the back of a van."