Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, accepted honorary and advisory titles from Communist Party-linked organizations when she served as secretary of labor under President George W. Bush and secretary of transportation under President Donald J. Trump, according to Chinese government and state-media records translated by the Daily Caller News Foundation. DCNF identified at […] The post Elaine Chao Held a Wuhan Advisership and Other CCP-Linked Titles Across Two Cabinets, Records Show appeared first on StoneZone .
Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, accepted honorary and advisory titles from Communist Party-linked organizations when she served as secretary of labor under President George W. Bush and secretary of transportation under President Donald J. Trump, according to Chinese government and state-media records translated by the Daily Caller News Foundation . DCNF identified at least four Chinese honorary and advisory titles since 2008. Three came from local affiliates of groups under the United Front Work Department, the Party’s overseas network for courting prominence, access, and talent. The United Front is not a civic club. In December 2008, while still labor secretary, the Jiading branch of the China Overseas Friendship…Open
Former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao received at least four positions from Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, some overlapping with her years in the U.S. Cabinet, raising serious questions about undisclosed foreign ties. Chinese government officials appointed Chao to multiple advisory and honorary roles within arms of the CCP's United Front Work Department starting in […] The post Elaine Chao held Chinese Communist Party-linked appointments while serving in two U.S. Cabinet posts, investigation finds appeared first on American Almanac .
Former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao received at least four positions from Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, some overlapping with her years in the U.S. Cabinet, raising serious questions about undisclosed foreign ties. Chinese government officials appointed Chao to multiple advisory and honorary roles within arms of the CCP's United Front Work Department starting in 2008, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported after translating Chinese government and state media records. The positions span both her tenure as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush and her service as Secretary of Transportation during Donald Trump's first term. Chao's spokesman denied she ever held a foreign government position or…Open
Federal investigators spent years building a case that a taxpayer-funded nonprofit billed two agencies for the same dangerous-pathogen research in Wuhan, and no one has been charged with it, leading to questions of whether grant fraud on that scale carries any consequence.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer is demanding answers from former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra over allegations he concealed Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diary and cellphone, records that now contradict Fauci's own sworn testimony. Comer, a Kentucky Republican, sent a letter to Becerra on Monday accusing the former Biden Cabinet official of failing to turn over […] The post House Oversight Committee accuses former Biden HHS secretary of hiding Fauci's COVID diary from Congress appeared first on American Almanac .
House Oversight Chairman James Comer is demanding answers from former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra over allegations he concealed Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diary and cellphone, records that now contradict Fauci's own sworn testimony. Comer, a Kentucky Republican, sent a letter to Becerra on Monday accusing the former Biden Cabinet official of failing to turn over more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's personal diary entries in response to a November 2, 2023, congressional document request. That request specifically sought records containing the words "COVID-19," "gain-of-function," and "Wuhan." All three terms, Comer wrote, appear throughout the diary. Becerra never produced a single page, and never even acknowledged the diary existed,…Open
Terry Moran, a veteran ABC News correspondent who left the network in 2025, alleges his 2021 report on COVID's possible lab origins was rendered "incomprehensible" after the script was routed through Dr. Anthony Fauci. Moran laid out the accusation in an interview with "The Fifth Column" podcast, describing a day-of-air review that stripped his roughly […] The post Former ABC News correspondent says network sent his COVID lab-leak script to Fauci, then gutted it appeared first on American Almanac .
Terry Moran, a veteran ABC News correspondent who left the network in 2025, alleges his 2021 report on COVID's possible lab origins was rendered "incomprehensible" after the script was routed through Dr. Anthony Fauci. Moran laid out the accusation in an interview with "The Fifth Column" podcast, describing a day-of-air review that stripped his roughly 15-minute "Nightline" segment of its editorial spine and buried it under legal hedging. The two-part piece, which aired in June 2021, had examined whether COVID might have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a question that multiple U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, and Department of Energy, have since assessed as the most likely explanation for the pandemic's…Open
Dr. Ashish Jha, the former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said he now believes the coronavirus pandemic was more likely caused by a laboratory leak in Wuhan than by a natural outbreak
Dr. Ashish Jha’s shift toward the lab leak theory highlights the ongoing need for further transparency and accountability in determining what officials knew about COVID-19’s origins during the pandemic. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Dr. Ashish Jha, the former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said he now believes the coronavirus pandemic was more likely caused by a laboratory leak in Wuhan than by a natural outbreak. Jha said his conclusion is based on information he learned while serving in the White House, but added that no definitive proof exists and that only Chinese officials have access to the information needed to determine the virus’s origin with certainty. DETAIL: Jha said that greater transparency and…Open
Republicans clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci over funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology which was studying the lethality of Coronaviruses prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. NEWSMAX's Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen reports.
Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to answer Senate questions about COVID-19's origins, citing legal protection under the Fifth Amendment, and sparking renewed scrutiny from Republican lawmakers.
Dr. Anthony Fauci refused to answer Senate questions about COVID-19’s origins on Wednesday, claiming legal protection under the Fifth Amendment. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a U.S. Senate hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday, declining to answer any questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic after saying he feared his testimony could be used in a perjury prosecution. Fauci said he had previously testified under oath before Congress on multiple occasions and argued Paul’s repeated calls to see him prosecuted left him no choice but to remain silent on…Open
Sen. Tommy Tuberville responded to Dr. Anthony Fauci's lack of answers over questions about his handling of gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China on Wednesday's "National Report."
