She reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), failed to notify the appropriate Trump Administration officials of this development. Markson wrote: "An investigation by The Weekend Australian has also confirmed Dr Fauci ... did not alert senior White House officials before lifting the ban on gain-of-function research in 2017."

The Weekend Australian spoke to "multiple" Trump administration insiders who confirmed that Fauci had not briefed them on the NIH decision to restore funding for gain-of-function research.

“It kind of just got rammed through," one official told the publication. “I think there’s truth in the narrative that the (National Security Council) staff, the president, the White House chief-of-staff, those people were in the dark that he was switching back on the research.”

According to the report, the paper "also confirmed that neither Mike Pompeo, the then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, nor National Security Council member Matthew Pottinger, was briefed."

https://www.wnd.com/2021/05/report-fauci-kept-trump-dark-argued-experiments-can-create-pandemics/