MTG couldn't have done it w/out Gym Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar et al taking timeout from Beetlejuice and important work promoting other conspiracy theories.
He more or less solicited the creation of the Proximal Origins paper at the start of February 2020, while at the same time around Feb. 18th he was going around on Television making statements that "The virus wasn't going to be a problem here." He spent the Golden Hour making sure he wasn't going to be blamed for the emergence of the virus than he did making sure the virus wasn't going to be a problem.
NONE OF THIS WAS STUFF HE WAS MADE TO DO BY MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE.
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I have the video from the month after that, where he says "Remdesivir is going to be the standard of care, I'm sure of it!" You know, the stuff he _didn't_ take when _he_ got the virus. But that he made sure was the only alternative for everyone else the first year. You can see them all by typing in "Fauci Remdesivir" in youtube.
FTFY