Donald J.Trump highlights claim Biden administration buried Fauci whistleblower complaint

shared a report alleging the Biden administration diverted a formal complaint accusing Anthony Fauci of lying to Congress about gain-of-function research during the pandemic.

WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump highlighted a report alleging the Biden administration buried a whistleblower complaint accusing Anthony Fauci of lying to Congress, by mentioning the source (see justthenews) on a Truth Social post on June 22, 2026 at 7:51 PM EST.

Here is the full post (see truthsocial.com): “Biden administration buried whistleblower complaint alleging Fauci lied to Congress during pandemic: https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/biden-administration-buried-whistleblower-complaint-alleging-fauci”

The report Trump shared centers on memos released by departing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in her final hours in the role. The memos reveal that an intelligence community whistleblower formally accused Fauci of providing false testimony to Congress about gain-of-function research funded by the National Institutes of Health at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (see justthenews.com).

The complaint, filed in August 2021, alleged Fauci misled Congress and the public about whether his office funded dangerous bat virus research at the Wuhan lab. Acting Intelligence Community Inspector General Tamara Johnson wrote to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines that the complaint accused Fauci of “misleading the American people and Congressional oversight” (see justthenews.com).

Rather than send the complaint to the independent inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, Haines referred it to then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, a Biden political appointee. Johnson wrote that she saw “no merit” in referring the matter to the HHS inspector general because the dispute over gain-of-function research was already public (see justthenews.com).

The memos also show Fauci participated in a June 2021 meeting at the CIA to discuss evidence that three researchers at the Wuhan lab fell ill in the fall of 2019. Fauci identified key gaps in the evidence, including whether medical records and blood cultures existed for the sick researchers. Despite this discussion, Fauci continued to promote the theory that the virus emerged naturally from a wet market near the lab (see justthenews.com).

Gabbard said the documents demonstrate that government officials engaged in a cover-up about the origins of the pandemic. “The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook,” Gabbard said. Fauci has denied wrongdoing and denied lying to Congress, though he accepted a pardon from President Joe Biden in late 2024 (see justthenews.com).

The allegations raise questions about government transparency and accountability for pandemic-era decisions. Suppression of a whistleblower complaint could carry legal and political consequences, and the released memos may prompt further congressional scrutiny of how intelligence about the virus origins was handled (see lifezette.com).

In the last 30 days, 1 of 643 Trump posts targeted the topic of legal affairs and political enemies, including 1 on the sub-topic of attacks on Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi.

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